year in review 2016

Your Favorite Videos Of 2016

In 2016, Deadspin readers racked up 149 million video views. Here were your ten favorites:

The Best Things We Watched In 2016

When we weren’t busy watching sports contests, we watched some things. Here are the best things we saw this year.

In 2001, when I was about 14 years old, my male friends invented a game that went like this: one of them—and it was always the same one—would sneak behind me, slap me—and it was always me—on the ass and run away as I sputtered, angry and humiliated.

Mell Lazarus And Momma Got The Last Laugh

For nearly 35 years, Mell Lazarus knew exactly how the end would go for Momma. In 1982, when the cartoonist began dating Sally Mitchell, who would become his second wife, he confided to her that he had already decided what the final installment of his comic strip would be, and he told her the idea.

What Our Parents Thought Of Deadspin In 2016

After my first week of work here, I had dinner with my parents. My dad expressed concern that I’d used a swear word (“f***”) in my second blog. My mom, full of motherly intuition, replied “No, that’s part of his job now.”

The Best Things We Heard In 2016

When we weren’t busy watching sports contests, we listened to some stuff. Here are the best things we heard this year.

The Year In Wacky Sports Injuries

An unfortunate reality of being a sports fan is watching strangers in whom you have an emotional investment for some reason get pummeled, concussed, have their knees blown out, and have their appendages bend in ways that make you scream. Remember Teddy Bridgewater? He somehow shredded his knee so badly that his teammates were puking on the practice field.

The Worst Takes Of 2017

We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. What does it have in store for us?

Deadspin's Best Long Stories Of 2016

We wrote a lot of long stories this year that you probably didn’t have time to read. Now is your chance to get caught up.

The Worst American Sportswriting Of 2016

There are plenty of lists out there compiling the year’s best sportswriting—try this one if you’re looking for some good holiday-weekend reading—and that’s as it should be, because there is a lot of great sportswriting out there, possibly more than ever. You won’t find any of it here, though. Instead, we celebrate the worst sportswriting of the year: The purple prose, the writers too clever by half, the overuse of the majestic plural. This is what brought the Deadspin staff the most joy in 2016.

What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year?

Deadspin’s Christmas Day tradition returns. It is time to sound the depths of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s database of emergency room visits. Below are the strangest, most awkwardly shaped, and least pleasant objects that America has shoved into its various holes. God bless us, everyone.