
A good tweet from our deceased former colleague Cerebral Commie Aisle about the perils of leaving a game too early—
Children are obsessive types. I knew more about dinosaurs as a 7-year-old than I will ever know about anything ever.…
Life is a strange thing, isn’t it? I had no idea, for example, that after many years spent not playing or following…
Today, crazy winds wreaked havoc on the Northeast, blowing over trees, knocking out power, and causing a bunch of…
Some people have “good” skin, some people have “bad” skin, some people just don’t give a shit about the visible…
Here’s a rock-dumb hypothetical the staff has been arguing about for a few hours: If you were forced to choose two…
The most miserable way to watch your favorite team lose a big game is unquestionably through a miraculous comeback…

I’ve been listening to a lot of KC and the Sunshine Band lately. Probably too much, by most definitions, but these…
We are still on the case of the Mad Pooper, but if you too have any similar stories of mid-run poop problems, please email me at patrick@deadspin.com.
Kids are captivated by the most random things, including some athletes who weren’t actually all that great. Let’s…
In this week’s Funbag, reader Benjamin asked this excellent question:
I’m watching water polo right now, and it was maybe 20 minutes into the match, as the players yet again swam from…
The other day we were talking about a sports media figure who was having a Twitter meltdown, standing behind a take…

We did this earlier in the week, but with general huge news stories. Since this is nominally a sports website, let’s…
The NHL Draft is tonight, because the NHL is very good at scheduling events for nights no one will be home to watch…
We already asked this question for football. This one is like that one, but for basketball.
I’m still high off basketball. Last night I felt like I was on drugs, alternately near tears and euphoric. I think I…