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The family history behind college football’s most talked-about player.
Timothy Burke Deadspin Aug 2013 15min Permalink
One man’s quest to stop horse racing deaths.
Ryan Goldberg Deadspin Sep 2019 30min Permalink
On the career and legacy of America’s most popular wrestler.
David Shoemaker Deadspin Apr 2011 15min Permalink
The last escape of Anthony Roebles.
David Merrill Deadspin Mar 2013 25min Permalink
Two men. Five days. Five boroughs. Five 140.6-mile triathlons.
Bill Bradley Deadspin Jan 2018 15min Permalink
On a makeshift halfway house for down-and-out former wrestlers.
A trip to the U.S. Open of ping-pong.
Eric Nusbaum Deadspin Oct 2014 25min Permalink
The underbelly of Vox Media’s success.
Laura Wagner Deadspin Aug 2017 30min Permalink
How a bootleg prep school profited by ripping off teens with NBA dreams.
Luke Cyphers, Teri Thompson Deadspin Nov 2017 20min Permalink
What one learns about Jose Canseco while trying, unsuccessfully, to interview Jose Canseco.
Pat Jordan Deadspin Mar 2008 Permalink
Twenty years later, looking back at an infamous paragraph.
Jeff Pearlman Deadspin Aug 2017 20min Permalink
The story of Jennifer Frey, a sportswriting prodigy who drank herself to death.
Dave McKenna Deadspin Oct 2016 40min Permalink
It’s worse than you thought.
Patrick Redford Deadspin Apr 2018 30min Permalink
A reporter recounts her weekend as an undercover Juggalette.
Emma Carmichael Deadspin Aug 2011 15min Permalink
Why The Undefeated, a site announced more than two years ago, still hasn’t launched.
Greg Howard Deadspin Oct 2015 15min Permalink
One man’s quest to ride the strangest wave.
Jessica Camille Aguirre Deadspin Dec 2018 15min Permalink
“The first time I was ever published in a book was 1997. It was because I found Roger Ebert’s email and asked him a question.”
Will Leitch Deadspin Mar 2010 10min Permalink
The NFL is doing everything it can to avoid paying former players who have dementia.
Dom Cosentino Deadspin May 2018 15min Permalink
A 2011 profile of LeBron James, originally meant to run in Port, that was killed by Nike.
Benjamin Markovits Deadspin Jul 2014 30min Permalink
The stories of the 109 black men who have played quarterback in the NFL, from Fritz Pollard to Russell Wilson.
Greg Howard Deadspin Feb 2014 40min Permalink
A profile of A.J. Daulerio, editor of Deadspin and procurer of, among other things, cell phone pics of Brett Favre’s penis.
Gabriel Sherman GQ Feb 2011 15min Permalink
A remembrance of relationships formed when the author, at 13 and using a false identity, frequented hockey chat rooms.
Katie Baker Deadspin Jan 2011 20min Permalink
A photographer captured the moment when a race organizer confronted a woman who’d snuck into the race.
David Davis Deadspin Apr 2015 10min Permalink
Riding along with the cowgirls bringing women’s bronc riding back to the rodeo.
Jessica Camille Aguirre Deadspin Apr 2019 30min Permalink
The rise and fall of basketball player Daniel “Gus” Gerard.
Casey Taylor Deadspin Apr 2019 25min Permalink