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Sports agency wants NFL prospects to avoid pre-Draft test that C.J. Stroud reportedly bombedThe S2 cognition test may go the way of the Wonderlic. According to a report from The Athletic one sports agency is directing its NFL Draft prospects to not participate in any cognition tests in their pre-draft process this year. The organization, Athletes First, emailed NFL teams last month to noti...

USWNT’s treatment is the latest example of right-wing hatred for ‘nasty women’Indigenous Americans were almost eradicated. Black people were enslaved. Asians are mistreated. Millions still want to “build a wall.” People of color have been oppressed for centuries, and each group has its own plight. But misogyny has stood the test of time. The overturning of Roe v. Wade, the re...

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Philadelphia Eagles fans’ biggest misstep? Hope

Welcome to Deadspin’s The Sports Nihilist, where all is for naught and we are but accidental jolts of electrified meat stuck to the surface of a rock in an indifferent universe. Fuck you....

Bobby Hull and Ivan Provorov don’t need you to defend them

The way we relate to professional athletes is a funny thing. They come into our homes via the TV weekly, nightly, and sometimes even hourly. In the fleeting few moments, we see them off the field (or ice, or diamond, or pitch), they are typically friendly, jovial, and serious about their profession,...

Less cheating? More fun? Answering your World Series questions

The NFL’s old race-norming ways are about to get costly

The NFL has to cut checks to hundreds of former Black players and there’s nothing they can do about it....

Steve Kerr and the hopeful effectiveness of the ‘Angry White Man’

Thoughts and prayers are the worst things you can offer during times like this. The Bible says that faith without works is dead, which means that all those prayers are useless without legislation. And those thoughts? Well, just because people hope — or think — we can get back to the world we lived i...