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Dear Cris Collinsworth, I have some <i>really specific questions</i> about your sexism
I would love to put Cris Collinsworth’s latest gaffe in the long list of things that have sucked about 2020, but the truth is, women working in sports hear this kind of ignorant tripe all the time, even from men in our industry, no matter what year it is....
Prove Me Wrong: Bill Walton should shut up about mountains, waterfalls & rainbows sometimes
Let me start out by saying I KNOW THIS WILL NOT BE A POPULAR OPINION....
See Messi’s tribute to Diego Maradona
Today FC Barcelona beat perennial La Liga lightweight CA Osasuna 4-nil. But that’s not the important part. Lionel Messi, in the 73rd minute, danced and pranced through a forest of defenders before easily depositing the ball in the upper corner of the net, sort of like another Argentinian superstar u...
On Maradona, his life, and the most famous two goals in soccer history
This story was taken from an episode of Julie DiCaro’s now-defunct sports history podcast, Stick to Pods, and originally aired on July 13, 2018....
Dabo Swinney sucks even more than you thought yesterday
God save us from the incessant idiocy of college football coaches....
Everyone feel really bad for Kelly Stafford living under a 'dictatorship' in COVID-ridden Michigan
Last week, much of America learned how truly violent and depraved the plot was to kidnap and — let’s be real, murder — Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. If you didn’t catch the highlights, here are some of the allegations from Michigan’s criminal complaint against the white men involved:...
Women working in sports need your support on the way up, too.
Before last week, it had probably been years since I’d heard Kim Ng’s name....
What Theo Epstein taught me about baseball: Teams aren't worthy of love
We all knew it was coming, but seeing the Cubs put out a press release this morning saying Theo Epstein was stepping down from his role as omniscient leader and President of Baseball Ops was still jarring. For the past nine years, Cubs fans have attached to Epstein their wildest hopes and dreams. He...
Drunk Tony La Russa told cop: ‘I’m legit. I’m a hall of famer, brother’
Tony La Russa is a “Hall of Famer baseball person.”...
'Doctrine of white supremacy:' Jackie Robinson saw the GOP for who they are back in 1964
On Sunday, for the first time in my life, I saw Americans gassed on their way to vote. ...
Yasiel Puig sued for sexual assault at 2018 Lakers game
News broke late Thursday afternoon that free-agent outfielder Yasiel Puig is being sued for sexual assault....
Time for Ryan Pace to take the keys away from Matt Nagy
There was a not insignificant period of time, in my tweens and teens, when I wanted to be an astronaut. I obsessively watched “Space Camp” (still a great movie), bought books on aeronautics and aerospace that I didn’t understand, and dreamed of the day I would don an unflattering blue jumpsuit and b...
Antonio Brown (and Tom Brady's enabling) just latest in NFL full of problematic men — time for women to take a stand
There’s a thing men do that drives women crazy. It’s when, upon becoming fathers, they suddenly care about women, often beginning their soapbox sermons against sexism and misogyny with “as the father of a daughter . . .”...
Keep your dick in your pants, please
I really didn’t think this piece had to be written. As late as this morning, I was like “Come on, Julie, no one is seriously defending Jeffrey Toobin jerking off during a work meeting.”...
BREAKING: Adam Schefter is a vacuous turd who embodies white male privilege
Sports media is overpopulated by privileged white people, myself included. But it’s especially populated by privileged white men, who are never called to account for their privilege or use it in any constructive way. America seems, by and large, OK with this: The “leave politics out of sports!” crow...
When will soccer care about the sexual assault allegations against Cristiano Ronaldo?
If you’re a causal soccer fan, you might not know that Cristiano Ronaldo has been accused of sexual assault by multiple women. That’s because social media is chock-a-block full of images glorifying Ronaldo, his stats, and his comparison to soccer’s other Goliath, Lionel Messi. Here are some posts ab...
How the Breonna Taylor case went so wrong
In the end, police never even searched the apartment....
Jon Gruden won't keep the damn mask on
Week by week, NFL coaches are learning to wear (or defog) their face shields and have mostly been keeping their masks on. But one head coach remains especially careless when it comes to covering his face....
Martina Navratilova talks COVID and the French Open with Deadspin
Prior to the start of the French Open, Deadspin’s Julie DiCaro and Jane McManus sat down with tennis icon Martina Navratilova about a wide range of issues, including social and racial justice, the U.S. and French Opens, and whether America should even playing sports in the midst of a global pandemic...
When Trump nominee Amy Coney Barrett made it harder to report sexual assault on campus
If you’re a woman, or someone who cares about women, it’s hard to pinpoint what the most disturbing thing about Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court is, exactly....