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Grantland just dropped nearly 20,000 words from the great Brian Phillips on the Iditarod. If we said we had read it and it was great we would be lying, because reading it will take a couple hundred lunch breaks or so, but we can probably bet that it is great. The layout itself is beautiful. [Grantla...
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Kobe No Longer Doin' Twitter
Kobe Bryant's live-tweeting of yesterday's Lakers-Spurs game (and his banter with Phil Jackson) was too good to be true: Janis Carr of the Orange County Register reports that the Black Mamba "will not tweet during games anymore after yesterday's reaction."...
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That North Dakota TV Station Fired A.J. "Fuckin' Shit" Clemente
KFYRTV, North Dakota's NBC affiliate, has fired the honorable A.J. "Fuckin' Shit" Clemente. What a way to start, and what a way to go out. ...
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CNN On An Empty Boston: "It's As Though A Bomb Had Dropped." Oh?
Hell of a metaphor, Susan Candiotti....
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Ryan Lochte's Stupidity Made A News Anchor Cry With Laughter
No, the Olympic swimmer and reality show participant did not swoon Fox Philly's Sheinelle Jones into tears or tell a moving story about his new clothing line. He was simply himself, and that was all it took....
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"Heroes are never in short supply in a catastrophe...but neither are cowards and egoists and creeps who have decided to wallow in melodrama and fear, restless miserablists whose only mile-markers in life are the tragedies that have befallen them." Go read Cord Jefferson on the national response to t...
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Deadspin Up All Night: The Game Belongs To Me
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. You're all great. See you tomorrow....
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The Third Victim Of The Boston Blasts Was A BU Grad Student
Boston University confirmed this afternoon that the third victim of the Marathon bombings was a graduate student at the school. The victim's name has not yet been released, as BU officials are still speaking with the family....
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UConn's Geno Auriemma went ahead and won his eighth national title last night, with a 93-60 rout over Louisville. He now matches former Tennessee coach (and longtime rival) Pat Summitt in NCAA titles ("that puts you in a category with the greatest women's basketball coach that's ever lived," he said...
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Cobra, Brah! breaks down the late Margaret Thatcher's "efforts to destroy English football" over on Sidespin: "Thatcher and other members of her Conservative cohort were quick to blame Liverpool supporters for the Hillsborough disaster, tarnishing those lives lost that fateful day in April, 1989. Du...
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Roger Ebert Is Dead
Legendary movie critic Roger Ebert has passed away at the age of 70. He had been battling cancer for the past decade. If you have time today, do go read Will Leitch on his correspondence with Ebert from a couple years back (a sampling: "I would love to say that I enjoyed fornicating on the Daily Ill...