Turn down the podcast/Pandora/XM radio just for a moment, and consider the much-mocked original, AM Sports Talk Radio. It’s the secret youthful shame of many an enlightened sports blogger, right up there with claiming one never was an AIM or Myspace-obsessed teen or had an emo phase.
Keith Olbermann is merely the latest ESPN employee to be suspended. Who knows why ESPN thinks suspensions are a good idea, as compared to internal discipline, fines, or firings. For whatever reason, a large media corporation has decided to imitate the tactics of the NFL towards suspensions. But the list of ESPN…
I'm doing this to try to beat the MBA 5PM deadline, so it's going to suck. 13 minutes to go...
It's not often that the motives of the Worldwide Leader and Gawker Media dovetail. But for a few glorious weeks in September, ESPN and Deadspin united around a good cause. Both had good reasons to want Roger The Not-So-Artful Dodger gone.
Given Deadspin's pearl clutching about the supposed hypocrisy of others in covering Stuart Scott, a history lesson was in order. Deadspin's greatest moments in coverage over the years:
The movie "42" was to serve as a tribute to Jackie Robinson. Instead, it was near universally panned as a banal, detail-free version of the true story. The messy nitty-gritty details of integration just became a typical retelling of civil-rights: the heroic minority, his friend the white protector, and a parade of…
I still can't properly view Kinja comments on Android or on a Firefox browser. I'm heartbroken.
So about a week ago, I challenged Sean's take on the Greek soccer player who performed what looked like a Nazi salute after scoring a goal. Sean was willing to discuss with me, but insisted that his story was just fine. Let's look at what the AEK coach who first tried to support his player is saying now that his…
Sidespin, meet Smithsonian. It took only two weeks for Kinja to become a national treasure.
Don't know about you, but this joke seems forced to me. Much like Kobe's worst games, it has a way of appearing old, barely has a leg to stand on, and seems to be guilty of (time) traveling just to make a weak point.
I dislike Cutler, and I bet Brian does too! I asked all my friends, and they too think that Cutler is a jerk! And sucks! Brian hates Cutler too, I know it! My friend's friend of a friend twice removed on Twitter told me one time Cutler went "eh" and Brian went "RAWR" and Cutler went "aaah" and yeah.
The Buzz Bissinger story has it all: shocks, surprises, and wait, there's more than dominatrixes to this story! Or is it dominatrixi? So no surprise that the story is heavily commented on.
This random ESPN Tumblr snipping is a good time to remind you that Deadspin's own Tumblr project, Eli Manning Looking at Things, at max got a staggering 101 likes on one post...which was 10 times the usual 10 likes an entry received. This despite getting many links on Deadspin.com and being about a New York athlete.…
To re-phrase Mr. Newell's last paragraph: "Deadspin was not as harsh as Deadspin burner accounts, and Deadspin will allow Newell to explain himself, at which time he can ask which is more believable: that he would intentionally leave out Greece's extensive history with Nazis and Neo-Nazis (easily available on…
...and you say that my "You ruined Deadspin" limerick is still in Pending Submissions? Three to five business days?
True Comedy Pyramids are a lost art. Usually they become a Line, where each person replies to the person above them, or a Jellyfish, where everyone responds to the original. Via KSK, this Jellyfish caught my eye for its witty simplicity.
Wisely delayed, the "pending submissions" tab is a particularly onerous addition to Kinja. Faithful workers that we readers are, who doesn't want to spend their time starring various contributions to free them from their submissive state? To actualize those brave comments so that they can run free above ground in the…
...and you say the stars still aren't coming back? Ever?
Forget user commentary: how is the staff holding up? After having run extensive analysis on the profits I can earn from C-FITH, I'm prepared to offer some fabulous payola to track the staff in their natural Deadspin habitat.
