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Back in 1997 I wrote a single blog post for Suck.com (way back in the day youngsters). Wired, which owned the site, paid $450 for it. The checks were bright lime green. Read more

Yeah, I gotta be honest, I saw JYS’s tweets and felt kinda bad for him, because I thought the article was about to publish under his byline in the Times. Only by reading this very blog did I realize he wasn’t officially involved. Read more

If we talk about the Pelicans do we still have to read comments from you about how you don’t care Read more

Lol, that’s funny. You people upstate receive far more money from us “downstaters.” If we had your attitude, you’d be fucked. Read more

ugh, I agree. But I feel like the awkwardness is in direct response to the pro-lifer’s ability to use macabre imagery in their message. I am 100% pro-choice, but it’s hard to argue with someone whose whole retort is showing uncomfortable images of the results you are fighting for. It kinda sets you back a bit. That Read more

This is legitimately batshit crazy. How did that get past an editor? Read more

Word to the wise: don’t say “planting my flag” on Jezebel; it triggers some. Read more

I actually watched the video package of this on SC this morning while getting ready for work, and it’s a great and touching story. Then when I got to work, I looked up the story online hoping for even more information, and somehow got substantially less. Read more

I used to be able to watch hockey games on NBCSN / NBC like that by using the SAP button on the remote to change the audio to the Spanish language feed. Since no Spanish language feed exists, it would just be the sounds of the rink without any of the commentary from the broadcast booth and it was glorious. Then they Read more

Which would you rather see, Goodell annoyed in having to interact with Brady or Trump being annoyed at having to host the Falcons? Read more

Probably referring to Mark Brunell on ESPN, who really did get so emotional over Deflategate that he got teary-eyed on TV.
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the real moment will come if Brady is the MVP. 8:30 monday morning there is a press conference where goodell hands the MVP the trophy & set of keys for the truck or whatever. It would just be the 2 of them up there alone. Read more

Whoa......can we just back the fuck up for a minute Eddie and take a gander at the woman sporting the shades behind the kid? Willing to place a decent sized bet that she has a house full of cats and is into some sort of sex that involves worshiping a deity. Read more

I used to work security at concerts while in college back in the mid 90's, which was odd considering I’m not a big guy. It was me, my even smaller brother, and a few dozen huge fucking guys who played football at SU. Read more

Speaking of Deadspin and writers, I just finished The Postmortal and I’m pretty much 100% sure Drew just depicted what the next 4 years are going to be like but he played it out over an 80 year sci-fi dystopia. Read more