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Breonna Taylor grand jury makes it clear: In America, Black lives don’t matter
If you’re surprised, you haven’t been paying attention....
Hey Big Ten, How About Daily COVID Testing for My Kid?
Well, the Big Ten finally cracked....
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I Worked With the Guy Who Was Just Fired For Gross Maria Taylor Tweet [Updated]
[Update: 2:22 pm ET] Dan McNeil has been fired from WSCR 670 The Score. The station sent the following statement to its employees this afternoon:...
What You Need to Know Ahead of 120th U.S. Open
The 2020 U.S. Open will be played for the sixth time at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, New York this week. The tournament offers a different kind of New York Fall Classic, if you will, and one that everyone will be forced to watch from home, as spectators are still not allowed on site. I will ...
We Refuse to Ignore Conor McGregor’s Sex Assault Allegations
We need to talk about Conor McGregor....
Fans at Arrowhead Can Go Kick Rocks
I don’t know what we expected....
The Deadspin 2020 NFL Previews, AFC North: Young Guns and Scumbag Ben
This is yet another division that seems to be perennially up for grabs between a couple of teams, at least on paper, but unlike the NFC North, this division is fresh and exciting. A rookie quarterback! An MVP quarterback that Bill Polian wanted to convert to wide receiver! An annual dogfight to the ...
The Deadspin 2020 NFL Previews, NFC North: The 'No One Else Wanted to Preview This Stale Division' Division
As usual, the road to . . . well, maybe not the Super Bowl, but at least the playoffs goes through Green Bay. And while Aaron Rodgers and the Packers aren’t as dominant as they once were, despite going 13-3 in Matt LaFleur’s first season as a head coach, no one else in the division has really steppe...
Let Me Play in the U.S. Open, You Cowards
The U.S. Open of golf is right around the corner at the famed Winged Foot Country Club in Westchester, N.Y. As someone who loves golf and New York, it’s the perfect opportunity for me to catch a flight and head out to play in my first major championship....
The NCAA, Just Your Average Billion-Dollar Charity, Needs Its Free Labor Back
NCAA President Mark Emmert has a base salary of something like $2.3 million. In 2017, he made $3.9 million. In 2018, he dropped off to $2.7 million....
No, Your iPhone Won't Autocorrect to a Racial Slur
In the past two weeks, there’s been a rash of white men blaming the slurs they let slip onto social media on typos and, by implication, autocorrect....
Welcoming You To WWE’s Thunderdome: A KKK Rally, Chris Benoit, and a Beheading
This spring, WWE pulled up stakes and moved its weekly shows to the state with the second-most COVID-19 cases in America — Florida. After doing shows from its Performance Center, Vince McMahon and company have now settled into the Amway Center, which normally hosts the Orlando Magic....
Who Models College Kids’ Horrible COVID Behavior? Parents, Obviously
As students all across the country return to school this week, whether online or in-person, we’ve been inundated with viral videos and pictures of college students collected in large groups, sometimes in line for bars, sometimes packed closely together, sometimes at a densely-attended house party, s...
Triple H: Ignoring Velveteen Dream’s Sex-Predator Allegations Is ‘What’s Best for Business’
Last night, in the conference call following NXT Takeover, Triple H (real name Paul Levesque) doubled down on WWE’s refusal to give fans an explanation for the return of Velveteen Dream (real name Patrick Clark) just months after Clark faced multiple accusations, some anonymous, of soliciting nude p...
WWE Allows Alleged Child Sex Predator to Waltz Back Into the Ring Like Nothing Happened
On its website, WWE’s Be a STAR program (which stands for Show Tolerance And Respect), boasts 150,000 anti-bullying rallies and a reach of more than a half-million kids, globally. The site claims the program is “an effort to give students the tools they need to drive effective learning, decision-mak...
The Problem With Mark Grace and Sports Media
Mark Grace has never come across like the brightest bulb on the tree....
Ben Sasse Writes Deranged Letter to Big Ten
There are a lot of things going on in this country right now. America is the laughingstock of the world after being unable to contain the COVID pandemic, largely because a non-insignificant portion of the population has decided to believe anti-vax Facebook posts over actual science. We’re in the mid...
No One Is Cheering Against Sports, Idiots
With alarming spikes in COVID-19 erupting all across America, I had hoped that the “sportswriters are cheering against sports!” mouth-breathers on social media had slunk back from whence they came. Alas, yesterday sports talk radio host Danny Kannell, in the tradition of great minds like Clay Travis...
Kelly Loeffler's White Supremacy Tour Continues - It's Time for the WNBA to Dump Her
It’s not like people aren’t aware of how awful Kelly Loeffler is. In addition to probably engaging in insider trading and trying to make a buck off Americans dying of COVID-19 (which both the GOP-controlled Senate and Bill Barr’s Justice Department declined to look into - quelle coincidence!), Loeff...
Wrigley Field, Smothered With Ads, Looks Stupid
Do you love advertising in ballparks? Then do we have a stadium for you!...