One little addendum: A few months ago, I got Swee'pea on the phone and asked him to annotate the story himself. He was very nice and seemed open to the idea, and we agreed to meet for dinner. (He's back in NYC these days, coaching an AAU team.) Right before we hung up, he asked me to contribute to some sort of youth…
Bias raised the temperature in a room in a way very few other public figures would have. He was young and healthy and famous, and he'd just been drafted by the Boston Celtics, which made his death a matter of immediate political utility for a powerful Massachusetts Democrat trying feverishly to outflank Republicans on… Read more
To quote my favorite cabaret dancer: Well, he would say that, wouldn't he? Read more
I'd go even further: Grinnell is a gimmick designed to make SportsCenter once or twice a year. I've talked to a former player there. In his telling, the system is not much fun to watch; it's not much fun to play, either. Read more
Well, when you take out the really dumb parts ... Read more
This is the dumbest fucking comment I've seen on the internet in a very long time. Read more
Highly recommended. We excerpted back in the day: http://deadspin.com/5564268/the-le… Read more
Here's Robert DuPont, the former drug czar who was the president of the American Council for Drug Education at the time of Bias's death. (He's talking about Bias and an Amtrak crash in 1987 that killed 14 people, after which the operator tested positive for weed.) Read more
Chill. Read more
Yeah, we can and we do. If you see an egregiously shitty comment, it's either because we haven't caught it, or because we made it ourselves. Read more
I'm not sure. It'd certainly make sense to have one. For now, if you see something shitty, let us know right away. Email me ([email protected]) or the Ninjas/Faeries ([email protected]) or the tips line ([email protected]). Read more
Yeah, I'm getting that. I don't know what to tell you. One thing to consider: We've had an influx of new readers/commenters over the past couple of months, many of whom were drawn in by stories that, let's say, don't always attract the cream of internet wit. (The unapproved section has turned into the Half-Literate… Read more
Nah. They replaced it with this: http://isthegawkericedcoffeeempty.tumblr.com/ Read more
I knew there'd be some tradeoffs. I didn't expect the place to turn into a Beckett play. Read more
Yeesh. I had no idea things had gotten so bleak hereabouts. Uh ... anything you guys wanna ask me? Read more
You realize I see only a fraction of comments, yes? That sometimes—shhhh, don't tell Denton—I don't even read the comments? Read more
That's happening. Read more
This is more or less the transcript of the interview, with the questions taken out and the answers rearranged a little for the sake of coherence. Read more
Worth noting: This was almost certainly written by the indefensible Lanny Davis, Seth's dad, who has signed on with Snyder for the domestic leg of his World Despot Tour. Read more