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The Doctor Who Performed Stephen Strasburg's Tommy John Surgery Wasn't Asked About The Nats' Shutdown Plans [UPDATE]

The Nationals shut down Stephen Strasburg for the season on Saturday, and in doing so they, by their own account, deferred to lots of nameless medical experts—"the doctors"—who are definitely not just Scott Boras and his junior partners in lab coats. Nope, no sir....

Inside The All-22: The Packers' O-Line Blew The Comeback Attempt

This is the first year the NFL has made its "all-22" coaches' film available to the public. Every week of the NFL season, we'll walk you through something intriguing that you can't see on TV....

This Might Be The Most Useless NFL Column Ever Written

Gary Myers of the New York Daily News: Stop. This is an actual paragraph you wrote in a newspaper with a circulation of nearly 800,000:...

Why Is The NFL Discouraging 70-Yard Field Goals?

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The Specialists: What's In It For Oregon's Quarterbacks?

Finished in 2010 and funded by a $41.7 million gift from Phil Knight, the John E. Jaqua Academic Center rises from a reflecting pool like the pyramid of the Louvre, a monument to student-athletes gilding a busy Eugene, Ore. thoroughfare. This past August, the unveiling of the University of Oregon's ...

The Astros' Manager Incentivizes His Players By Awarding A $200 Set Of Headphones After Every Win

We've made a lot of fun of the Astros recently. Just this morning, even. (Hey, at least we're paying attention.) But the joke of a roster they field and joke of a style they play likely leads you to mistaken assumptions. It probably makes you think the Astros aren't a first-class organization devote...

A's pitcher Brandon McCarthy has now been discharged from the hospital, and he's got the right things on his mind....

JaVale McGee Threw A Free Burrito Party, But Only One Dude Showed Up [UPDATE]

JaVale McGee invited 10 Twitter followers to a free lunch with him at Chipotle yesterday. And in typically JaVale fashion, the invitation was well-intentioned, but poorly thought out, producing a hilarious result. Given just five minutes notice, only one fan made it to Chipotle: Andy Mathisen, who d...

Roger Clemens And The Astros Are Entangled In A Slow, Depressing Dance

We've posted on and on about how Sugar Land Skeeters ace Roger Clemens may be conspiring with the 44-97 Houston Astros to tweak his Hall of Fame chances. Today the Associated Press has given us a bombshell story—bombshell as in, the charred debris that remains after a horrendous event—about the Astr...

There Was At Least One Sign Depicting Roger Goodell As Hitler At The Superdome Yesterday

Roger Goodell temporarily may have lost his battle to suspend the Bounty Four, but he's still winning in his fight to become New Orleans's most hated man since Mike Brown. Here he is, helpfully adorned, on at least one placard. (We don't know if there were several of these things at the game Sunday....

Superlative Jets Rookie Stephen Hill Dominated Yesterday's Game While Periodically Puking On The Sidelines

Rookie Jets wideout Stephen Hill wowed anyone within a one-hundred-mile radius of East Rutherford yesterday, catching five passes for 89 yards and two touchdowns. He was the first player to catch two touchdowns in his debut since 2005. But imagine what he could have done if he were healthy? Rich Cim...

Everyone On Twitter Was Confused About Why Willis McGahee Didn't Say "The U" In His Player Intro Last Night

During Sunday Night Football, something weird happened. It wasn't that the quarterback with the misbehaving cervical vertebrae threw for 253 yards with two touchdowns and only seven incompletions, and it wasn't that the Steelers still hadn't learned how to cover Demaryius Thomas. Both of those eve...

How The Nationals And Baseball's New Conventional Wisdom Ended Stephen Strasburg's Season Too Soon

On Friday night, Stephen Strasburg made his last appearance of the season. The shutdown has come. The Nationals will not use him down the stretch, and they will not use him in the playoffs. The best pitcher on the league's best team will not sniff a moment of the team's most important games....

Deadspin Up All Night: Out On The Weekend

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. All your weekend friends—Eifling! Rauch! Newell! Burke!—will be around tomorrow and Sunday to blow it out....

Al Pacino Will Play Joe Paterno In A Proposed Movie Based On Joe Posnanski's Book

We could have anticipated many of the byproducts of the Penn State scandal—flawed apologies, spunky T-shirts, cardboard cutouts—but we were not expecting a movie deal with Al Pacino attached....

The Mets Gave Chipper Jones This Wack-Ass Painting To Commemorate His Last Series In New York

LeRoy Neiman is dead, but goofily colorful sports paintings didn't die with him. See, look at this one here. It's a gift from the New York Mets to Larry Wayne Jones, Jr. of Atlanta, on the occasion of his impending retirement....

Rob Gronkowski Dreams To One Day Own His Own Party Bus, And More

Rob Gronkowski is back to work. The Summer of Gronk is over. Sports Illustrated's Chris Ballard chronicled the final moments of our generation's most momentous offseason—you should read it, if you like sentences like, "What was I supposed to do, turn down the shots?"—and today on Twitter Ballard pro...

Are Football Players Really Living Longer Than Baseball Players? Why Grantland's Study Is Wrong

Grantland recently published an article, "Mere Mortals," by Bill Barnwell, which claims that:...

The Jets taunted a fat rookie into losing weight by leaving Rice Krispie treats around him. The Jets are the Plastics....

Someone Is Flying A "Free Sean Payton" Banner Over The Meadowlands

All eyes are on the Cowboys-Giants game tonight, and Sean Payton coached for both teams before arriving in New Orleans, so I guess East Rutherford is as logical a place as any to fly this loud banner. It's not quite Franco Harris's cardboard Paterno, but it's something. [Via Ralph Vacchiano]...