coach Steve Lavin found himself with only seven scholarship players available

Are we not drawing a distinction between a take and a goddamn fact???

That Refs(and especially Umps) getting calls wrong from time to time is preferable to replays on anything close.

I believe Derek Jeter’s running catch and leap into the stands vs the Red Sox was totally overrated and not that great

The triple option is the most exciting offensive strategy in football and passes are boring.

“You’re making the biggest mistake of my career.”- Pat Riley

Bill Simmons fucking hates this idea.

Yeah it’ll be a bummer when Nick Denton and AJ Daulerio die.

OSCARS, RANKED;

Agreed - it’d be great if Gawker could swap HamNo the politics troll to Deadspin so we could get more HamNo boxing pieces. To fill the void, they could get Billy Haisley off the soccer troll beat (which has been Beat. To. Death.) and over to Gawker. Maybe Haisley’s really good at writing about politics, or…

As usual, fantastic stuff. It would be great if there existed a vertical dedicated solely to boxing with you and IMG running the show, because I enjoy these write-ups more than anything else on Deadspin.

I wish there were more profiles like this out there about boxers. Hell, maybe they’re out there, and I just don’t know where to look. I know very little about boxing, but the intricacies seem really interesting; I’d love to see more stuff about the techniques and strategies that go into a fight and what makes a…

I wish you’d spend more time writing about boxing.