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As First K.C. Fan Tests Positive, We're Faced with Growing Power of the Surveillance State
Super Bowl champion Kansas City was one of two NFL teams, along with Jacksonville, to allow fans to attend their Week 1 game. The official attendance was 15,895 to see Patrick Mahomes and Co. dismantle the Houston Texans last Thursday night....
Deadspin Presents 'Heartbreak City,' to Make Fans Across North America Relive Their Worst Moments — Part 2: Two- & Three-Team Towns
Every year, 31 teams don’t win the Super Bowl, 30 teams don’t win the Stanley Cup, 29 teams don’t win the World Series, and 29 teams don’t win the NBA championship. There can only be one champion, after all....
Thanks to Big Ten's Reversal, Another Year of Disappointment Awaits Wolverines Fans
Big Ten football is coming back in October, much to the delight of Donald Trump and the universities that will get to resume cashing in on unpaid labor....
Deadspin Presents 'Heartbreak City,' to Make Fans Across North America Relive Their Worst Moments — Part 1: One-Team Towns
Every year, 31 teams don’t win the Super Bowl, 30 teams don’t win the Stanley Cup, 29 teams don’t win the World Series, and 29 teams don’t win the NBA championship. There can only be one champion, after all....
Expanded Playoffs Suck, But Here’s a Way to Fix It
Rob Manfred says this season’s expanded baseball playoffs are likely to remain in place for 2021 and beyond, and everybody hates it....
Magic Johnson Owns Clippers, too, With Lethal Twitter Takedown
There will be no greater takedown of the Los Angeles Clippers, who blew a 3-1 series lead in which they held leads of 16 and 19 points in Games 5 and 6, than the one delivered by Magic Johnson, the only completely sincere and benign person on Twitter....
Mike Ditka Still Crazy After All These Years
Mike Ditka did a phone interview with Newsmax, the halfway house for wayward Fox News personalities and dollar store version of Mike Gundy’s favorite ultra-Trumpy “news network” OAN, and told kneeling NFL players to “get the hell out” of America. ...
Six Months After Rudy Gobert, 2020 is an Ever-Worsening Hellscape
The six-month mark came and went with hardly any notice, but it did come and go. It’s now been more than half a year since Rudy Gobert, days after jokingly touching all the microphones at a press conference, tested positive for COVID-19 and effectively shut down the sports world....
Project ShaqBox Remembers Tom Seaver
I don’t know if I ever saw Tom Seaver pitch live. His last season was when I was 5, so it’s possible that at some point my parents did take me to a game where Seaver was on the mound, but if that happened, I don’t remember it....
Here’s One Way to Get Revenge Without Throwing a Baseball at Someone’s Skull
Miguel Sanó destroyed a baseball on Saturday, launching a Joe Jiménez pitch off the facing of the second deck in Minneapolis to pull the Twins within a run of the Tigers in the eighth inning. Sanó then had the game-tying hit in the ninth before Byron Buxton beat out a walkoff infield single....
Jimmy Buckets is About to Burst Bucks’ Bubble
Hope you enjoy this Labor Day weekend, because once it’s over, there’s a whole slew of takes on the way....
Should I Stay Or Should I Go Now: Messi Flip-Flops
All that drama about Lionel Messi telling Barcelona he wanted to leave? Yeah, he’s not leaving....
Mets’ Poignant Moment on Field was Pure Mets Off it
The Mets and Marlins did not play on Thursday night, instead taking the field, removing their hats, having a collective moment of silence — 42 seconds to honor Jackie Robinson — and leaving a Black Lives Matter shirt on home plate as they headed back to their clubhouses in Queens....
Rest Assured, These Guys Are Still Complete & Utter Jerks
Oh, hey, just in case you were wondering…...
In Game 7, Jason Heyward Rose to the Occasion, Last Night His Cubs Teammates Failed to Return the Favor
When Game 7 of the 2016 World Series went to a rain delay in Cleveland, after the Chicago Cubs, trying to end their 108-year championship drought, had let the lead slip away on Rajai Davis’ tying homer, they needed to pick up the pieces and figure out how to mentally get back into things for extra i...
Irate Canadian Maybe Says 'Vote Trump,' Then Maybe Not, Then, OK, We’re Lost, Too
San Jose Sharks forward Logan Couture has shown in the past that he knows how to handle himself in a fight. But maybe that’s only on the ice?...
No Fans to Celebrate Giolito No-No is SO On-Brand for 2020
What happens if there’s a no-hitter and nobody’s there to cheer it?...
Herschel Shills for Charlatan; The OSU Unranked! Mamba Remembered
The Atlanta Hawks’ website has a video titled “ELDRIDGE RECASNER HIGHLIGHTS,” whose description is: “Watch some of Eldridge Recasner’s best moments with the Atlanta Hawks.”...
This Year's Indy 500 Could Have Been Great
The Indianapolis 500 was Sunday, something that would have gone completely without notice if not for the fact that digital channel guides exist, such is the state of IndyCar in general these days, and such is the state of the world because the pandemic knocked the race out of its traditional spot on...
Marc-Andre Fleury's Agent Tweeted this Picture
As an athlete, you always want to know that your agent has your back, but this is certainly a strange spin on that concept....