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  • Will PBS Deliver the Death Blow to the NFL?

    League of Denial, the new documentary produced by PBS’s Frontline, doesn't reveal much that is totally new about how football damages brains, but it's still shocking to see how much the NFL has concealed about its concussion crisis.

  • Building a Better NFL Draft

    The NFL draft takes three days and involves some of the dumber shout-machines on American television applying the same five adjectives to various muscular men over and over. It is very bad. But it can be better, if only because it can't be worse.

  • The Nationals Are a Real Baseball Team Now, a Homeless Guy Said So

    The Washington Nationals are 100 percent for real. They exist. They are good. How good? Even homeless people in ass-backwards Chicago know about them.

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  • Manti Te’o: Another Narrative Bites the Dust

    The story of Manti Te'o's fake girlfriend destroyed the ready-made image of the Notre Dame linebacker. He's no longer an Upstanding Young Man, but neither is he Harmlessly Wacky or the related Speaks His Mind About Political Topics. He may be a Student...

  • Taken

    There’s no reason why anyone should talk about or listen to other people talking about sports for hours and hours every day. There is not necessarily that much to say about men running and catching balls under the best of circumstances, and necessarily...

  • We Saw the ESPN Bo Jackson Documentary and It Ruled

    I went to a screening of ESPN's documentary about Bo Jackson, one of the most incredible athletes of all time. What he did in his short, unearthly career is captured better here than it has been anywhere else. You should watch it.

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  • Chris Berman Will Decide Our Nation's Fate

    Sports and politics will collide in an ugly mess tonight, when Monday Night Football airs the pre-recorded interviews Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have just now done with ESPN's Chris Berman—a man who has the coloration and analytical savvy of a yam...

  • ESPN Is Actually Children's Programming

    It’s impossible to take yourself seriously if you watch a lot of daytime ESPN. Just last week Kevin James (the fat dude from 'The King of Queens') was debating Stephen A. Smith about Tim Tebow. Something like that should never be on television...

  • The VICE Guide to Sports

    You either give a shit about sports or you don’t, and the delineation between these two types of people is usually pretty clear. As a service to the world and in an attempt to prove that, like laughter, athletics can serve as a universal language, we...