I think most here agree MMA fights are on the level. It's the promotional aspect people are pointing at in other threads that seem akin to pro wrestling. Granted, there are some exceptions that think MMA is scripted, but that's a small, vocal minority. Like internet's rule 34, there should be another rule written that…

A rational person would never compare Yankee Stadium, a privately owned and financed stadium, to Maracanã Stadium, a stadium owned by the state government of Rio. You miss the point that all improvements done to the stadium come from public funds which could have been better used to better the living conditions of the…

That won't always be the case. While I don't dispute that most won't care about physical media, there will still be a number of people who take pleasure from physical ownership of media, whether for collection purposes or as an investment. There are reasons why a decades-old Chrono Trigger SNES cartridge still sells…

Personally, I'm more or less okay with Tobey's Parker, but that was before the reboot came along. Not earth-shattering, but more than serviceable (for the truly bad, see Reynolds as Green Lantern). When Garfield took over, he blew Tobey out of the water in portraying Parker. I will admit to being biased because I was…

I think Ashley makes a good point that if college football is NFL-lite (or the NFL minors), then college football players should just be in the NFL itself. There's something wrong about leagues (this includes the NBA as well) forcing athletes of legal age out of the majors until some arbitrary time has passed from…

I would've thought the basic idea of having paid fighters fight would already clue him in to RFA being a professional MMA outfit, along with all the advertiser logos and branding littered about.

My personal opinion of that particular headline is that it's attention-grabbing, but still accurate for it not to be clickbait. The plea actually did happen, and it's a great catch by the writer to ferret out a headline that captures the human element of the story while remaining true to the events that occurred.

If I had to guess, he probably got a cease-and-desist or something from some record label.

What about writers actually forming their own opinions? I mean, it's a ranking of cereals, which by definition has a ton of personal bias to begin with. Were you expecting the list to have numerical valuations assigned to a set of categories, weighted, and given a final score? Even then, review ratings are subjective…

He's better now than some years back, for sure, though I do think creative needs to do something with his tired character (though I understand their desire not to since Cena is WWE's top merchandise seller for years now). My lingering thought about WM30 is that creative would rather break 'Taker's streak for a…

I guess it depends on who you're talking to. The IWC focuses a great deal on backstage politics and crowd reactions, a real thing that does affect bookings and pushes, sometimes quickly. As for pieces like this, they're there to add to one's enjoyment of the product, and shouldn't be considered as an attempt to sound…

I like the cut of your jib, boy.

If the media weren't throwing stupid shit about Puig, this article may not have even been written (along with a couple other Deadspin articles on Puig). It's the same thing with Sherman during SEA's SB run, a number of media heads threw stupid shit towards Sherman, so Deadspin called them out on it.

Soooo everyone who reads comments on Deadspin must like every criticism levied and never reply? If one feels the need to criticize a comment, he should not post a reply, rather he should just keep it to himself and refuse to exercise the same freedom of speech the critic used? That's what I'm taking from your comment.

Because said commenters can voice their own criticisms on what they feel is an invalid criticism? Understand that things like criticism and even the adjective "valid" are very subjective terms.

There was never a writer anywhere throughout history who didn't have subjectivity in his/her veins. I have to cast doubts about your ability to prognosticate 10 years into the future, too, if the basic idea that all humans have biases escapes you.

Thanks for this Barry. I appreciate how Deadspin tells it like it is instead of whitewashing stuff (especially when it comes to celebrity deaths) as mainstream media is wont to do.

To be honest, I doubt I'd go Googling for articles of my dead dad (assuming he was famous) immediately after he passed away. I'd be more concerned about mourning, making funeral arrangements, and finding strength from friends and family. Looking up articles would be the farthest thing from my mind.

I don't think the first 24 hours of anyone's death changes who that person was in reality. My two cents.

I think some commenters here should understand that even with the best doctors and therapists money can buy, Tiger Woods' body is still human, ergo the disc is lost (as Ruben mentioned in his comment thread), and he is at risk for future disc surgery episodes. Unless he got a totally new procedure that allows him to…