VICE Sports launched today. "The sports media landscape, if we're being honest, is really crowded. We're not going to out-ESPN ESPN. We're not going to try," VICE Sports publisher Ryan Duffy told Forbes in an article that was published this morning, right around the time Duffy left the company, we heard. Read more

For the sake of journalistic integrity, I think everyone should know precisely how Greg Howard got that staph infection: Read more

Deadspin's journalistic standards have fallen through the floor - I mean, DO YOUR JOB TOM LEY:

Does this count toward the 80% interaction goal? Read more

FWIW, I still think we should ban Detroit. Read more

Everyone should also be aware that Billy was the real star of this race:

From the finish line:

Just so everyone knows what this is about:

I WAS IN JEANS, DIDN'T TIE MY SHOES, AND JOGGED OFF THE LINE; FUCK EVERYONE. Read more

Who is the fastest runner on staff? Read more

So, from what I could garner from Twitter (and this could be totally wrong), you guys had another race and Greg lost. Is this true? If so, can we get some details and/or video? Read more

Sending out the Daulerio signal for a translation. Read more

My full quote, which is a little kinder than the stray pieces in Rob's story would indicate: Read more

CORRECTION (to the Gawker post sharing this item): I originally wrote that the Clippers shared their arena with the Lakers during Magic Johnson's career, which was wrong. The two franchises share the Staples Center now, but the Clippers did not share the Forum, where Johnson's Lakers played. As an old person, I regret… Read more

This is my second attempt to obey our orders to use the new feature where you can use Kinja commenting to send a Tweet to people outside Kinja, because to my great surprise my first attempt to use the new Kinja feature failed, owing to a defect in the way the feature works. Read more

The problem with the people that keep pointing out Lueke's history is that it ignores the possibility for redemption despite a checkered past. People make mistakes and they grow as a result of it. Yes, it's an ugly truth. Nobody is going to deny it. But the fact remains: many people have gone on from being members of… Read more