year-in-review-2016 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights

Your Favorite Videos Of 2016In 2016, Deadspin readers racked up 149 million video views. Here were your ten favorites:...

The Best Things We Watched In 2016When we weren’t busy watching sports contests, we watched some things. Here are the best things we saw this year....

Mell Lazarus And <i>Momma</i> Got The Last LaughFor nearly 35 years, Mell Lazarus knew exactly how the end would go for Momma. In 1982, when the cartoonist began dating Sally Mitchell, who would become his second wife, he confided to her that he had already decided what the final installment of his comic strip would be, and he told her the idea....

What Our Parents Thought Of Deadspin In 2016

After my first week of work here, I had dinner with my parents. My dad expressed concern that I’d used a swear word (“f***”) in my second blog. My mom, full of motherly intuition, replied “No, that’s part of his job now.” ...

The Best Things We Heard In 2016

When we weren’t busy watching sports contests, we listened to some stuff. Here are the best things we heard this year....

The Year In Wacky Sports Injuries

An unfortunate reality of being a sports fan is watching strangers in whom you have an emotional investment for some reason get pummeled, concussed, have their knees blown out, and have their appendages bend in ways that make you scream. Remember Teddy Bridgewater? He somehow shredded his knee so ba...

The Worst Takes Of 2017

We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. What does it have in store for us?...

The Best Things We Read In 2016

When we weren’t busy watching sports contests, we did some reading. Here are the best things we read this year....