Month: October 2024

Dear Readers: If anyone in the NYC area would like to volunteer to care for our football-playing gerbil and frog this year, please contact me. Consider it an internship. Sort of. No, this is not a joke. …

The ESPN analyst's latest work is a fine addition to the telestrator dong genre. Note the Fauvist coloring and bold gestural abstraction. He has wisely avoided one of dong art's most shopworn clichés, bypassing the pendulous balls entirely. Further, the extraneous lines suggest motion, action, and they give the work a dynamism the genre so often lacks — a modernist's sense of lightness and flight, a dong in Brancusian space. Here is video of the artist at work. Oh, Doug. Your artistry has stolen our hearts as if they were a roommate's credit card. Tip of the beret to Michael B. for the screenshot and to Mike E. for the video. * * * * * Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin and dong art. Barry Petchesky will be here shortly. …

data-mm-id=”_cghvhig11″>In what will probably be the most shocking NFL news of the week, the Patriots and Josh Gordon will soon be parting ways. The team placed Gordon on the IR on Wednesday, and reports later emerged they planned to release the wideout once he's healthy. His time in New England is done. Given how murky the situation is, it's impossible to know exactly when Gordon will hit the open market. The Patriots seem likely to wait until after next week's trade deadline; if they release him now, he'll be free to sign with whoever, but if they wait until this time next week, he'll enter the waiver wire process. There are a lot of teams who would be interested in Gordon's services should that situation occur, but these four teams in particular should …

data-mm-id=”_9xlem3urv”>Now that the Cowboys no longer control their own destiny after yet another late-season debacle against a division rival, it seems all but certain Jason Garrett will finally not return next season as head coach. Jerry Jones is the ultimate wild card so you never know what he'll do, but here are five candidates we could see as being the next man to helm the sidelines for the Dallas Cowboys. Note: This is a variation of a list we published a few weeks ago when it became clear Garrett's job was in serious jeopardy. Lincoln Riley – Quite frankly, this should be Riley's job to turn down. He has Oklahoma on the outskirts of making the CFB Playoff, and is the type of young innovative offensive mind that NFL franchises are going gaga over. Riley's re…

data-mm-id=”_i5rgyo9td”>The marathon has long been one of the signature events of the Olympics and the race has a long and storied history. On March 22, 1896, the first ever edition of the race was held at the Panhellenic Games and Charilaos Vasilakos was the winner. In Greek legend, we're told that in the aftermath of the Battle of Marathon, Pheidippides was sent as a messenger from Marathon to Athens to announce the Athenian army under Miltiades had defeated the invading Persians. The story claims that he ran the entire way and after arriving exclaimed, "we have won" before falling dead. There is much debate about the veracity of this tale, but let's be honest, it's a great story.Obviously when the first modern Olympic games were scheduled for 1896 in Greece,…

data-mm-id=”_82lhtgmiy”>Reggie Bush may not like it, but his comments in Playboy have reignited a debate about what college should look like for high-level college athletes. Jalen Rose was on Get Up this morning and suggested that college athletes should be able to major in sports. "These young athletes should be able to major in sports while they're in college. … Not having these young people taking ballet or basket weaving. Teach them how to manage their money and their situation."@JalenRose on Reggie Bush's comments about paying college athletes. pic.twitter.com/WgJRQFithV— Get Up (@GetUpESPN) May 26, 2020As a catch-all for most athletes, probably not, but individually, athletes should be able to tailor their educations to fit what their lives could become. R…