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Dodgers Lose Game 6, Will Not Be Going To The World Series
The dream season came to an end for the Los Angeles Dodgers last night in Game 6 of the NLCS behind ace Clayton Kershaw. It was a terrible outing for Kershaw, who gave up seven earned runs on 10 hits and lasted only four innings. ...

Which TV Market's Getting Screwed Today? Your Week 6 NFL Viewing Maps
A guide to the best and worst of the NFL slate (and to which fans are stuck with the most of worst). Maps via 506sports.com....

This Umpire's Strike-Three Call Is "Whoomp There It Is!"
Via former MLB pitcher Mark Mulder, who told Busted Coverage that Bobby Crosby, his former A's teammate, sent it to him. Crosby's brother, a scout in Northern California, took the video. There it is....

Which TV Market's Getting Screwed Today? Your Week 5 NFL Viewing Maps
A guide to the best and worst of the NFL slate (and to which fans are stuck with the most of worst). Maps via 506sports.com....

Which TV Market's Getting Screwed Today? Your Week 4 NFL Viewing Maps
A guide to the best and worst of the NFL slate (and to which fans are stuck with the most of worst). Maps via 506sports.com....

Which TV Market's Getting Screwed Today? Your Week 3 NFL Viewing Maps
A guide to the best and worst of the NFL slate (and to which fans are stuck with the most of worst). Maps via 506sports.com. ...

Which TV Market's Getting Screwed Today? Your Week 2 NFL Viewing Maps
A guide to the best and worst of the NFL slate (and to which fans are stuck with the most of worst). Maps via 506sports.com....

Which TV Market's Getting Screwed Today? Your Week 1 NFL Viewing Maps
A guide to the best and worst of the NFL slate (and to which fans are stuck with the most of worst). Maps via 506sports.com....

Look! It's A Bear On A Slide! This Bear Thinks It's People!
EMERGENCY BEAR FRIDAY PALATE CLEANSER. ...

Is Darren Rovell Even Human?
It says here no: "When do you become a brand? Some people say it's for people who achieved something. I would argue that in some sense you become a brand the second you're born." [NYMag]...

Skip Bayless Is Making Up Shit About The Michigan-Notre Dame Rivalry
This morning we illustrated how one ESPN blowhard will make up facts in order to argue for continuing a college football series lucrative for the WWL. Not to be outdone, Skip Bayless chimed in on the topic this morning on First Take, and somehow managed to get it even more wrong than Mark May....

Mark May Is Now Blatantly Lying To Viewers
Notre Dame is ending its series of football games against Michigan, and Irish coach Brian Kelly raised controversy over the weekend when he claimed the Wolverines weren't a rival. That led ESPN's college football panel of Joe Tessitore, Mark May, and Lou Holtz to take on the topic during halftime o...

Great Players Who Never Had A Great Moment
There have been great players who never had a great moment; men who went on year after year, running up formidable statistics, but were no more fearsome than anybody else in the few, crucial moments of their careers. They popped up or flied out in key at-bats, or did not even fail that spectacularly...

The Whore of Akron
Last year I interviewed Scott Raab about his entertaining book The Whore of Akron. Dig:...

The Man Who Broke Atlantic City
Dig Mark Bowden's 2012 story for the Atlantic:...

This One Goes To Eleven
Slide on over to the Hollywood reporter and check out this excerpt from Michael Walker's new book What You Want Is in the Limo:...

The Police Are Your Mother And Father
...And I don't want you touchin' my body....

Larry King: MLB Perception Expert
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It's What You Do With The Gift That Counts
There was a good story by John Le Carre in theNew Yorker earlier this year (subscription required) about the making of his novel The Spy Who Came in From the Cold. The piece centered on the tense relationship between the film’s director, Martin Ritt, a left-wing Jew who’d been blacklisted, and its s...

How I Made @DadBoner (And How @DadBoner Made Me A Better Man)
It was just over a year ago that I wrote a post here at Deadspin outing comedian Mike Burns as the man behind @DadBoner, one of the most popular Twitter feeds ever devised. If you're unfamiliar, the @DadBoner universe centers on the labors of a heroically optimistic Michigan man who lives in his ca...