College Basketball3/22/13Mar 22 20131College Basketball3/22/13College BasketballHarvard's Basketball Team Works Better Than Harvarddmr16Sometimes Harvard Yard literally smells like bullshit. The grass takes a regular beating from the weather and the…
Mar 8 201323/8/13“Are You A Nerd?” And Other Questions We Asked Our Fellow Nerds At The Sloan Sports Analytics Conferencedmr10Last weekend, I went to the sixth annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. Attendance has gone up every year,…
Jan 25 2013Save1/25/13 Inside The NBA Got A Little Gay-Baity Last Nightdmr143 During halftime of last night's Clippers-Suns game, the Inside the NBA crew had some fun at the expense of Charles…
Jan 9 2013Save1/9/13A Vote For Roger Clemens Was A Vote For Barry Bonds: The Politics Of The Hall Of Fame Ballot, By The Numbers [UPDATE]dmr36 Hall of fame ballots follow their own own internal logic. For instance, regardless of how they feel about steroids,…
Nov 16 2012Save11/16/12Help us with an experiment: Pick a number from 1-100 and leave it in the discussion below. We'll explain later.dmr398
Nov 6 2012211/6/12Who Are The Computers Voting For? We Ask Siri And Others For Advicedmr23I'm about to go vote, and I haven't read up much on the issues. I don't know which candidate loves America more or…
Nov 5 2012Save11/5/12Vote Melky Cabrera for the Heart & Hustle Award. You can't question his effort. Read moredmr
Politics11/1/12Nov 1 20122Politics11/1/12PoliticsNate Silver's Braying Idiot Detractors Show That Being Ignorant About Politics Is Like Being Ignorant About Sportsdmr15In case you haven't been hanging around the benighted corners of the political internet lately, there's an idiotic…
Oct 30 2012Save10/30/12The Giants Sure Use A Lot Of Sabermetrics For An Anti-Sabermetric Teamdmr The Giants' World Series title is the latest point of retreat for the desperate sportswriter still looking to slam…
NFL10/25/12Oct 25 20121NFL10/25/12NFLPresenting The Deadspin Fantasy Football Almanac: An Unofficial Record Book For 1970-2011dmr84
Life's Rich Pageant10/15/12Oct 15 2012SaveLife's Rich Pageant10/15/12Life's Rich PageantThe Many, Many Tweets Referring To Alex Rodriguez As "Fag," "Pussy," And "Gay-Rod"dmr44Alex Rodriguez is both straight and male, but you wouldn't know it from the insults lobbed his way on Twitter over…
NFL10/12/12Oct 12 20121NFL10/12/12NFLEven If Icing The Kicker Doesn't Work, It's Better Than Never Icing The Kickerdmr32Mike Tomlin iced the kicker twice last night, but with an unfortunate twist: First, he called a timeout on his own…
MLB10/12/12Oct 12 20121MLB10/12/12MLBBud Selig's New, Random Postseason Knows The Soul Of Baseball Better Than You Thinkdmr24Out of the 22 playoff games in the first two rounds of the MLB playoffs, 12 have featured at least one team on the…
MLB10/4/12Oct 4 2012SaveMLB10/4/12MLBHow The Crazy-Ass AL Division Races Unfolded: Visualizing MomentumdmrThe Athletics and the Yankees clinched their respective division titles on the same day, but the paths they took to…
Sep 28 2012Save9/28/12When Good Statistics Go Bad: The Case Against The Case Against R.A. Dickeydmr40R.A. Dickey, objectively speaking, is the greatest human being in history. His knuckleball destroys cities and he…
NFL9/25/12Sep 25 2012SaveNFL9/25/12NFLThis Is The Angriest America Has Been At Referees Since The 2006 Super Bowldmr22 What would motivate you to Google "referee?" Nothing good (unless you're counting sexy bedroom role-play costumes,…
MLB9/13/12Sep 13 2012SaveMLB9/13/12MLBJust How Tight Is The AL Playoff Race?dmr22 With three weeks to go in the season, over half of baseball is still in the race. Seventeen teams are within five…
Sep 11 2012Save9/11/12 This R2D2 Keg Is The Droid You've Been Looking For Your Entire Lifedmr11 Meet R2DKEG, the most popular drug-dispensing robot at the LSU tailgate (because C-3PBLOW will not fucking shut…
NFL9/11/12Sep 11 2012SaveNFL9/11/12NFLVikings Rookie Placekicker Forces Tie, Breaks Tie, Receives Tiedmr13 Week one of the NFL season was full of strong debuts. But the best rookie quote came, to no one's surprise, from…