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Which 'Big Name' Players Can You Cut?

Stash or Trash tells you whether a prospective fantasy football pickup (or drop) is worthy of your roster spot.Name value is a key component in fantasy sports. Take, for instance, Braylon Edwards. You know he sucks. I know he sucks. Heck, LeBron James knows he sucks. (Bob Costas and Buzz Bissinger might be the only people...

Buzz Bissinger vs. the NCAA

Like a whole lot of other serious bloggers, I didn't need much of an excuse to take a piece out of Buzz Bissinger in the aftermath of his infamous appearance on Costas Now with ex-Deadspin Editor Will Leitch. Since then, Bissinger has been making more positive noises about blogging. Then again, after getting roasted the...

Costas Does Not Want Viewers if They Are Looking for a 'Repeat of Bissinger - Leitch'

I find it whimsically amusing that over 30 years after he began his broadcasting career (roughly around the time he used the word "blowjob" as a synonym for the word "choke" in an ABA game) he is somehow being redefined by a one-sided shouting match between a blogger and a vitriol fueled author. However, if your motivation...

Stuart Scott's Take on Blogs: 'Whatever'

On the day A.J. Daulerio was named Deadspin editor last week, I asked him about a post he wrote at the Super Bowl a year and a half ago in which he described what he read while looking over Stuart Scott's shoulder as Scott sent a text message.Daulerio said that while he's never heard from Scott about that post, "I heard he...

Buzz Bissinger: Friday Night Lights Proves How Serious Sports Is in Our Culture

We've talked a lot about the journalist and Friday Night Lights author Buzz Bissinger in these parts the last couple of months, and for the most part it's been to say that his anti-blog rants are stupid and unbecoming of such an accomplished writer. But in his long Q&A with Will Leitch at Deadspin, Bissinger made one point...

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Parenting And The Zen Of Roller Coaster Riding

I have a recurring vision of a roller coaster.

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Friday Night Lights Author Wants To Ban College Football

Buzz Bissinger , perhaps the most famous chronicler of high school football, is calling for a ban on college football, The Gothamist reports.

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05/27/12 Bissinger's âFather's Day': Honest, exalting,... Source: Philly.com - Philadelphia PA Buzz Bissinger's list of accolades and awards could fill this entire review.
05/23/12 Parenting And The Zen Of Roller Coaster Riding Source: The Huffington Post I have a recurring vision of a roller coaster.
05/23/12 New book reveals the fatherly side of Buzz Bissinger Source: Idaho Statesman - Boise ID Buzz Bissinger has already called someone a moron on Twitter this day, but really, the virtuosic vitriol that has characterized his Twitter feed has been somewhat subdued lately.
05/21/12 Intelligence Squared Tackles Banning College Football Source: Boise Weekly - Boise ID One of the best podcasts around is Intelligence Squared, a show that attempts to ape the legendary Oxford Union debates in the United Kingdom by inviting leading thinkers to take up some of the touchiest issues of the day, then having the audience vote on a winner.
05/20/12 New e-book technologies transform market Source: Pittsburgh Post-Gazette - Pittsburgh PA The prescience of Stephen King's literary experiment was downright spooky.