The Stacks is Deadspin's living archive of great journalism, curated by Bronx Banter's Alex Belth. Here are the best stories we published on it this year. My Dinner With Ali By Davis Miller | I'd been waiting for years. When it finally happened, it wasn't what I'd expected. But he's been fooling many of us for most of our lives. Read… Great Men Die Twice: Muhammad Ali In Decline By Mark Kram | Two years after that last fight, Ali seemed as mystified as everyone else as to why he hadn't ended his career earlier. His was living with his third wife, the ice goddess Veronica, in an L.A. mansion, surrounded by the gifts of a lifetime—a six-foot hand carved tiger given to him by Teng Hsiao-ping, a robe given to him by Elvis Presley. Fatigued, his ha…