Author Bio & Stories

David Roth

David Roth is an editor at The Classical, co-writes The Daily Fix blog-column at the Wall Street Journal, and writes "The Mercy Rule" column at Vice.com and a column that doesn't have its own name for Sports On Earth. He tweets, primarily about things he hates, @david_j_roth and almost never updates his blog.

  • February 10, 2012
    Grimacing Lion, Squinting Seahawk: NFL Logos Get The Manningface Treatment — The Clog

    A design guy named David Rappoccio is putting Peyton Manning's scowly/poopy Manningface on different NFL logos. We could not be happier about him doing this.

  • February 9, 2012
    Professional Golfer Very Concerned With Laziness of "Non-Working Americans" — The Clog

    Former Ryder Cup captain Paul Azinger, like many people who played golf often, is very concerned about how much free stuff poor people...pardon, "non-working Americans" receive. What makes him a champion is getting on Twitter and making a difference.

  • February 9, 2012
    Yakkin' About Karim Garcia — The Clog

    What good is a Karim Garcia spotting, especially one in which he looks like a char siu pork, if you can't discuss the way it makes you feel with a trusted friend?

  • February 8, 2012
    Let's Not Rap About Jeremy Lin, Please — The Clog

    It's fine to be excited about Jeremy Lin, because the Jeremy Lin thing is great. But please, everyone, let's exercise caution in the quickie YouTube tribute raps that we make on his behalf.

  • February 7, 2012
    Does Tom Coughlin Really Have To Be Great? — The Clog

    Tom Coughlin, the crimson-faced middle school principal and easily goofed-upon disciplinarian who coaches the Giants, has now won as many Super Bowl rings as Bill Parcells, Vince Lombardi and Tom Landry. Does this have to mean anything?

  • February 2, 2012
    Bill Raftery and the Power of Love

    After nearly three decades in a business full of blowhards and bile-geysers, CBS and ESPN color commentator Bill Raftery remains the happiest man in college basketball. We're all the richer for it.

  • January 30, 2012
    Ill-Ga-OO-Skus: How About Those NBA (Mis)pronunciation YouTube Videos? — The Clog

    Outsider art? Standard YouTube randomness burp-up? Collaboration between Jenny Holzer and the Eastern European muppet version of the "Honey Badger" narrator? What are these things?

  • January 30, 2012
    Read To Achieve: Experimental Literacy at NFL.com — The Clog

    Breaking out some experimental-unto-WTF'y prose and breaking out a baby-talk homonym on NFL.com isn't going to hurt the Super Bowl's ratings. Which is a good thing, because...

  • January 27, 2012
    Metsy, Never Etsy: Derek Erdman's Keith Hernandez Coat Rack — The Clog

    Is it art? Is it something from which you can hang coats or sweaters or whatever? Most importantly, does it have Mets legend Keith Hernandez's smiling face on it? Yes, and yes, and yes, and we love it. This is the coat rack that changed everything.

  • January 26, 2012
    Scary Good

    With the New England Patriots bringing their bleak brilliance to the Super Bowl, fans are once again left to wonder at a team that has managed to make greatness look so impossibly small.