Tuesday, May 5, 2009

Deadspin

Deadspin is the most popular sports blog on the Internet. As its tag line states, the site provides "sports news without access, favor, or discretion." The site's editors post legitimate sports news, like today's inevitable Brett-Favre-Ending-Retirement-Again story, but they add their own commentary and humor to their posts. The other attribute that delineates Deadspin and other sports blogs from mainstream sports news websites is its user-driven commenting community. The commenters are just as funny (and just as driven) as Deadspin's award-winning editors, so the comment threads that develop after each Deadspin post are long and hilarious.

A confession: I was a fairly popular commenter on Deadspin (and on its sister site, the much more immature Kissing Suzy Kolber) before the demands of school took over my life. I actually had to remove both sites from my RSS reader because even their headlines are distractingly hilarious.

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