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Kevin Draper
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Reporter at the New York Times

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I don’t know about first song, but I do know that the first album I ever bought with “my” money was Bad Hair Day. Read more

I was at the first Warriors home game after they traded Monta Ellis for Andrew Bogut, when Chris Mullin’s jersey was retired at halftime and most of the arena booed the shit out of Joe Lacob. It was incredible. Read more

It’s both. It is mostly sarcasm, but it’s also true, Calipari is screwing up the systems that the NCAA has in place. But screwing up a bad thing isn’t necessarily bad. Read more

That reading only makes sense if you believe I’m standing up for the NCAA’s rules, which is crazy if you read this blog or read Deadspin literally ever. Read more

Where does this article suggest that anybody is bothered? Read more

So let’s get down to the real question: Will Miazga be hoisting the World Cup trophy in 2022, 2026, or both? Read more

He has been involved with the Dominican program since he was 16, in 2011 (and they were coached by John Calipari hmm). He played for them in the 2012 FIBA Olympic Qualifying tournament, and the 2013 FIBA Americas Championship. Read more

Here is the email that just went out to DraftKings users in New York: Read more

Just like Twitter, the best tweet of all time is also the worst. Read more

Every once in awhile people will get fake mad or argue over who gets to write something, but that’s usually when a Take needs to be written. When it comes to actually reporting out serious stuff, it is usually pretty obvious who should do it. Read more

To expand upon this, Craggs’ advice—which is about the only good advice on this topic I’ve ever heard—was to be really good at one thing, and not bad at everything else. Read more

We don’t “get” Mr. Baseball to do anything; Mr. Baseball blesses us with his presence when he so chooses. Read more

There is no sports blog where I ever want to read greater than 30% of their articles these days, so I just have very finely tuned Twitter lists that surface up the good stuff. Read more

The cool thing about Deadspin is that we don’t have to secretly love or hate something: if we love it we write about it on our blog site, and if we hate it we write about it on our blog site. There are a variety of people with a variety of opinions on Simmons, and all of those opinions have been written about on the Read more