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Week 5 Newsletter: Swift Pun-ishment
We’ll get to the football and funny business in a minute. But first… Nothing about Tim Wakefield’s career should have worked, yet it did beautifully. Born in Melbourne, FL in 1996, Wakefield rose up the baseball ranks as a power-hitting first baseman at Florida Tech, where he set the single-season and career home run records…
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Week 1 Newsletter: Feeling Blue
Football is back, motherfuckers! The final sign of the NFL’s return is here at last — the first newsletter of the season has been released. With both real and fantasy football being played today, anticipation is high for pretty much everyone whose real team doesn’t have a star player calling out the head coach and…
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World Cup of Hate, Part 16: FINALE
This is it — years of research and writing have led to this exact article. We’re going to go from the final four competitors to one ultimate winner of the World Cup of Hate, determining the greatest rivalry in all of sports. Going into the tournament, if you asked people who they thought would win,…
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World Cup of Hate, Part 15: Eight Enemies
There’s now just a single-digit total of rivalries left in the World Cup of Hate and every one of them deserve to be here. These are the elite of the elite of the elite when it comes to hatred, controversy, excitement, fan support, and memorable moments on the soccer field. All of these rivalries have…
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World Cup of Hate, Part 14: The Salty 16
Calling this round of the World Cup of Hate the “Sweet 16” doesn’t sound right, though just “Round of 16” is kind of boring. “Sour 16”? Eh… “Salty 16”? Fuck it… ROUND OF 16 EL CLASICO (SPAIN) VS. DERBY DELLA CAPITALE (ITALY) LENGTH Barcelona and Real Madrid first played in 1902, while Roma didn’t even exist…
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World Cup of Hate, Part 13: Going Gangbusters in Groups
GROUP STAGE Over the previous dozen chapters, we’ve whittled down the hundreds of fantastic rivalries in the world down to the best of the best — the 32 (really 33) meticulously detailed, unforgettable hate-filled histories between 64 (really 66) clubs that make up the World Cup of Hate. Now, it’s time to cut that number…
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