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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. Full story

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. Full story

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 of the Game or Just a Winne… Full story

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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 not that much to say in mos… Full story

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. Full story

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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 that has been soaked in Dewar'… Full story

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, especially not on a channel that’s… Full story

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’ve written a handy guide… Full story

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The Worst Idea in Sports

Most television networks would not take time out of their own broadcasting schedules to air formal-dress jerk-off awards, for obvious reasons. But if the network in question was an all-sports network trying to figure out what to do with a weekday night during the Major League Bas… Full story

My Dark Secret: I Like Watching Skip Bayless

"First Take" is completely indefensible, boorish, brainless, redundant, and drenched in corporate musk. And I watch it every week. Full story