A little late to the party but Deadspin will always be the place that gave me a chance to escape my soul-crushing corporate existence and do something I actually cared about. Greg let me write about the bald corruption and mismanagement of Brazil’s World Cup stadium construction, and then gave me the chance to get my… Read more

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Yeah, that was an unfortunate product of size mismatches and an odd number of folks that night. Yen was about 60 lbs lighter than me so they didn’t want me sparring with him; Josef was a lot bigger than me and was just there to box. I was punished by the transitive property. Read more

So I’m in Berlin for the year and have kind of gotten tired of the “pure beers” that are almost all identical pilseners, lagers, and hefeweizens. Apparently the craft beer market here is pretty small but a couple breweries are making good, not great, beer and I think the city is getting more of a taste for more… Read more

I assume this is here to antagonize Greg which, for the record, I'm more than ok with. Read more

He sure is. Cook N has a great rundown of that particular vein of corruption somewhere else in the comments. Read more

Rio will be up soon! I hope... Read more

This is the kind of information I just don't have access to given the short turnaround and it's appreciated immensely. Well-informed, critical thinking locals who have followed the development of these stadiums closely and maintain a visceral relationship to their cities have been life savers during this entire… Read more

It's all so beautiful, isn't it? Read more

Mea culpa, updated to include that little club. Read more

Good stuff, also updated to reflect Palmeiras existence! Read more

Whoops, good catch. Castelao shoots up the rankings to 8! Read more

This is fantastic, where is this? Read more

I was hoping someone would bring that up in the comments because it was simply too long and digressive to slot into the article. There had to be a lot of graft and corruption in Kubitschek's government when he asked Niemeyer to design an entire new capital from whole cloth, right? It's sort of irony on a long… Read more

I can only assume this prediction is correct. Read more

So it's those same structural elements that strike me as more mechanical than rhythmic, but I think that's just a difference of opinion. You're right about Parc de Princes' ribs being more jarring than Mineirão's and as an American I can't help but think parking lot when I see the open-back terraces around the… Read more

Forgive me, we're still working the kinks out of the Blatter rating system. It's not the easiest scale to get your arms around. Read more

You're right, but Arena do Grêmio financed about 50% of its development through BNDES, a Federally supported bank that has seen some irregularities in their relationship with private developers. Not exactly a smoking gun but it's not as if Read more

Do you have a photo of any hallways I can look at for research? Read more