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How will the ski biz survive the mass-exodus of white people when all its marketing is pandering…to white people?

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Skiing is marketing to the Cleavers in a Modern Family America. Unless serious changes are made in how the sport sells itself (and to whom), it’ll die. Written By Kyle Magin Ski industry marketing materials look like winter at the Eagle’s Nest. I recently perused the websites… Continue reading How will the ski biz survive the mass-exodus of white people when all its marketing is pandering…to white people?

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East Coast blasé: How the College Football Playoff selection committee’s early bedtime has resulted in ZERO West Coast representation

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The good thing about the BCS before it morphed into a #fourteamplayoff was at least the computer didn’t have to go to bed early/wasn’t too blacked out from the Mississippi State/Ole Miss tailgater to make somewhat lucid decisions not based on whether you say y’all unironically. By… Continue reading East Coast blasé: How the College Football Playoff selection committee’s early bedtime has resulted in ZERO West Coast representation

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The story of runner 45429 as she counts down to Sunday’s New York City Marathon

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Her name is Elizabeth Ewens. She is my sister. This is her journey. (Warning: it’s not one of those about overcoming adversity as much as it’s just about her being really super-present which is a total hurdle for people today. So that’s huge—right?)   By Andrew Pridgen… Continue reading The story of runner 45429 as she counts down to Sunday’s New York City Marathon

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Pints and Picks Week 8: We just realized everyone reads this column in their own voice and that’s probably why it doesn’t make much sense

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Each week, during college football season DPB’s Kyle Magin and Andrew J. Pridgen pour on the prose with Pints and Picks™. Who to wager and what to drink while doing it. Here we ask the eternal questions: What matters less the least? The second season of How… Continue reading Pints and Picks Week 8: We just realized everyone reads this column in their own voice and that’s probably why it doesn’t make much sense

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The connected but detached roles of the media, of celebrity, of Las Vegas in Lamar Odom’s third act

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Found last weekend overdosed on a cocktail of cocaine and performance enhancers in a brothel 70 miles outside of Vegas, former NBA star and Kardashian-in-law Lamar Odom is hospitalized with a prognosis uncertain. Personally, I hope he pulls through because nobody, beyond fictional characters, deserves to have… Continue reading The connected but detached roles of the media, of celebrity, of Las Vegas in Lamar Odom’s third act

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Only one member of the Trojan family can fill that giant gaping hole at head coach—and that member is Will Ferrell

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DPB obtained a leaked memo from a USC president Max Nikias to AD Pat Haden via Apple Watch Monday afternoon about potential head coach candidates for its football program. Most of the encrypted memo was translated from Farsi using Google Translate, so apologies for the parts we… Continue reading Only one member of the Trojan family can fill that giant gaping hole at head coach—and that member is Will Ferrell

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Why it’s OK to root for present-day San Francisco to fail even if (especially if) you’re from there

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A gated community. A city that is becoming uniformly wealthy, out of reach and out of touch. Too much reclaimed wood. Too many high-backed chairs. Teardrop light fixtures, everywhere. Soulless where there used to be a soul. Blank screens where there used to be imagination…Whatever it is,… Continue reading Why it’s OK to root for present-day San Francisco to fail even if (especially if) you’re from there