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Kevin Draper
kevindraper
Reporter at the New York Times

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Breaks Of The Game is okay, overrated, and shockingly racist. I have Best And The Brightest and The Coldest Winter sitting around on my bedside table (along with 30 other books) that I haven’t gotten around to. Read more

I want to live in a post-web bubble crashing Bay Area. Read more

I would bet with Tim Marchman that the Warriors would win the 2015 NBA Finals, giving him the entire field. Read more

It’s a bit harder for me to play games these days because a. I moved away from the west coast where my brothers lives and would just get and organize plays of games, and b. I work at Deadspin dot com four nights a week, and there aren’t too many people down to board game at noon on a Tuesday. Read more

This is from June ... and I’m still waiting on the blog I’m second-most looking forward to.

My two D-3 National Championship medals say otherwise. ;) Read more

I studied Latin American politics in college, so that. But I bounce around a fair bit, reading everything from more modern politics stuff, travel writing, war history etc. Read more

A doctor. Having medical expertise would be enormously helpful on a lot of different stories, both sports (concussions) and non-sports (penis stuff). Read more

One of the things that I wish everybody implicitly understood about Deadspin—but is hard to make explicit because it’s navel-gazing and boring—is that most stories are a media criticism story. Not necessarily criticism as in “this is bad” (though often it is), but just in that it reveals something about the way media Read more

I spent most of my non-work leisure time playing board games or reading about history. Read more

No, no idea. Arsenal-City pretty obviously take top two in some order. I’d guess Spurs and United take the next two in some order. Leicester 5, Liverpool 6. Read more

I write the vast majority of our daily fantasy articles, and I’m pretty tired of “Promo Code: YOU’RE FUCKED” or whatever. Read more

In the last couple of years I’ve played frisbee, soccer, and basketball. Read more

Yes. The people (like me) that aren’t even native to those areas but spent some time there taking up the superiority mantle. Read more

Tbh, I think I’d do pretty well (comparatively). Read more

1. Do you know what a person of color is, and who on Deadspin’s staff constitutes a person of color? (no, you don’t know either of these things, clearly) Read more