Edit: I’m an idiot and somehow didn’t write NBA Jam, which deserves either the first or second spot.

Yeah I don’t even mean as part of the “are boxing and MMA sports” (absolutely) or “are NASCAR and F1 sports” (probably) - just that to me, they fall into a different kind of category. Boxing/MMA games to me seem more like Mortal Kombat or something like that (which I would hope we could all agree is not a sports game)…

I really liked World Cup 2011 and was extremely disappointed by World Cup 2015. My high ranking for rugby is probably more aspirational than anything else...I feel like there *should* be a really good video game out there that I’m not willing to admit that the ones that exist so far are pretty disappointing.

I cannot fathom the thought process of a person who would rather play a golf video game than a rugby one. (and no, I’m American)

Today I am learning that people consider racing and fighting games “sports games.” I have always considered them their own separate categories; Mortal Kombat and Mario Kart being in the same grouping as Madden and FIFA is bizarre...right? I guess I’m the unusual one here.

Also, if throwing out a runner at first base on a hard hit single to right field is wrong, I don’t want to be right.

It’s the nostalgia pick I allowed myself. I wasn’t allowed to have console games until I was 13, and I spent a *lot* of time from ages say 8-12 playing that game.

In no particular order:

I love how the Pakistani women throw the ball up in the air and celebrate like it’s a cricket match (I never know how much cricket knowledge to assume on Deadspin, but outs are rare and celebrated excitedly usually in that exact fashion)

either this is a really deep cut of a troll or you read exactly four words of the article. Poe’s Law is frustrating sometimes.

i don’t know what that was supposed to be, but i didn’t laugh once and now my eyes hurt. different strokes.

that’s amazing.

because my real plan was not actually to list all the great accounts - it was to get people riled up about the ones I left out, and thereby find new people to follow. And it’s working! Thank you, I’ll check darth out.

I’ll be on the lookout for Mr. Baseball. There’s not a ton of delving required for the boys are back in town, and I cannot adequately explain why I love Elmer’s Glue’s twitter account so much so that recommendation may have been a mistake.

I was hoping that Hamilton and IMG could form a nice one-two punch (boxing term!) and find interesting boxing stories. I don’t like watching boxing, but I enjoy reading about it. Unfortunately, he appears to be pursuing the plan of being Gawker’s Trojan Horse.

there it is.

Are...are you saying that people saw that a guy had a large dong so they no longer cared that he was a serial emotional abuser?

thank you for the reminder that my sense of humor is nowhere *near* as dark as it could be.

Honest answer: I can’t, and I think that trying to would probably make him less funny. I just like the uncanny valley picture of the world I feel painted by his tweets. Like, this is just beautiful to me for some reason:

Deadspin is not traditionally a very welcome or welcoming place for people who are not important but think they are. And yet now it has this, and Hamilton Nolan. I suspect tension and turbulence are coming.