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"There are 375 Women's Lacrosse teams in the NCAA compared to 296 Men's Teams." - Warrior Sports

So, basically either Babe Ruth or Cy Young? The Fangraphs article imagines a dominant pitcher that plays in the field on off-days, but doesn't mention Ruth or Young.

Yeah, we paid our regular freelance rate, give or take.

The piece was clearly killed because it made Nike look terrible, not Lebron. The fact that the company had essentially commissioned and paid for the production of the piece in consort with a magazine which helped portray their CEO positively in the past pretty much supports this fact.

Seriously? It takes less than 10 minutes.

So you spent your time with James in this story alternately comparing yourself to Norman Mailer (quite literally, as a matter of fact), and exploring your own core of novelistic self-flagellation. Then you conclude with the statement that James has brought his high school troupe with him, and is in fact not a…

There's nothing defamatory in this piece. It's just not a puff piece, and more a commentary on the craziness of celebrity than on Lebron himself. Well done though, I'd be interested to see a similar piece from Lebron today as he seems to have matured a fair bit since.

It's not - it's negative of Nike, which I reckon is what Nike didn't like. It pulled back the curtain too much and let you see how the hype sausage was made.

Nike uses LeBron like Carl Denham uses King Kong. Nike reps/handlers look like shit. Nike has a buyout to kill the article, does so.

So they spiked this because it's a painfully tedious write-around?

Good night, bad knight.

Correction: She improved the aerodynamic drag on it

There have, of course, been many instances of teams missing vital players and winning big games without them. Partly, their replacements have outperformed expectations, but often it's about preparation. Having the replacements ready to slip into the exact role, or reassigning duties as needed and making sure everyone…

+1 sax and *clink clink*

I hope that Deadspin publishes these recaps on a nightly basis. And, for reasons I have yet to figure out, I REALLY hope that Deadspin somehow embeds the theme from "Night Court" to accompany those recaps.

That was a very interesting piece, I was curious as to what your final assessment of what happened yesterday would be. There's more to the story though, if you look at the whole background of how CBF works and how sloppily this team was put together. There are also glaring differences between the work done by Germany…

Nothing is worse than having to explain as well- and thoroughly-argued a piece as this to some dingus who's pretending not to get it, but: Brazil lost because they made soccer mistakes they wouldn't ordinarily make, because the guys they've trained for countless hours to depend upon weren't there to be depended upon,…

as someone who only watches soccer during the World Cup, I had a feeling watching that game that I have felt only a few times before in my life that I was witnessing not only just history, but history that will be analyzed, written about, spoken upon hushed breath for generations to come.

I don't really get the point of this article. Just to be contrarian to all the other writers you listed? It's pretty clear starting on the 2nd goal that the Brazilian team was just not there, couldn't take a punch and already giving up. Maicon "failed to track his man" but come on, he gave up quick. He had a chance to…