He had one in the Birmingham paper before that even, and I loved to read it. Little slice-of-life stuff from the bigs that wasn't cloying, self-serving, or overly sentimental. He's a good egg.

Kind of fucked up that you can get banned from Facebook quicker for running afoul of the fat is beautiful campaign than you can for tallying gang rapes, proudly trumpeting the tenets of national socialism, or cyber-stalking your ex.

I call a call center: I'm seeking your help for an issue, and while I may get aggravated with the robotic way in which you go about it, I realize that's not by your choice so I deal with it while we work together to solve the issue. Whether you can eventually solve the issue or not, I thank you for your help.

I'm in close to total agreement with you there (and this Tebow piece is a prime offender), but maybe the distinction could have been made clearer in the article. Sticking the landing on the Geocities metaphor kind of cost you some clarity there.

I'm shocked that fans of a school that still trumpet a pre-Civil War pro-slavery border war victory over Kansas as a piece of sports trash talk might be, you know, kind of shitty people.

It's funny that not only do you shit on this (admittedly bad) piece, but the very idea of longform writing:

Imagine how awed Tkachuk must have been.

If we're going beyond numbers into sheer horror and scale, the USS Indianapolis surely needs mention, no? Just finished delivering the atomic bomb, sunk by a Japanese sub, mission secrecy delays rescue efforts until a horrifying number of survivors were taken by sharks?

Dear Dave: Please move to my city and become the king of my region's sportswriting.

Do you often find yourself having jokes explained to you

Always someone....

First Colston, now Graham? Man, Saints TEs are fucking up fantasy leagues everywhere this decade.

MMA as a sport is eventually going to have to shed or outgrow Dana White to have long term viability as a major draw. At some point his very real, very apparent personal issues are going to erupt into something disastrous for the sport.

What was it like taking a break from the academic rigor of the 2-year system to coast for a while at USF?

A better question is why is it that soccer is the only sport that Deadspin provides Greg Howard-level writeups for.

At the bar at Woody’s, I explain to a Steelers fan sitting next to me that I’m writing a profile of a former gay member of his favorite team. The guy looks Dorien up and down, notes his sculpted physique—at 5’10” he can still bench-press twice his weight—but is quickly dismissive. “He’s too short for the NFL,” the guy…

Lotta men who will have sex with men don't identify as gay.

Imagine that, actual knowledge taking time and investment to achieve.

I'm for the general principle of "assholes deserve bad things", of which "Fuck Boston" is a corollary.

I'm saying this is a perfectly acceptable call under the general rule of "Fuck Boston".