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Shohei Ohtani's Starting To Reveal All His Powers
Shohei Ohtani has a fastball that he can pump up to 100 mph and dot on all four corners of the strike zone. He has a splitter that dives straight into hell and takes the souls of many batters with it. Those are two very good pitches. If you throw those two pitches exclusively, you’re basically late-...
<i>God Of War</i> Makes Its Violence Matter
Video games are serious now. It’s no longer enough for AAA video games to have sleek graphics, hours upon hours of playable content, and innovative game mechanics. They also need top-notch voice acting, cinematic cutscenes featuring real actors performing in motion-capture suits, and a compelling st...
LeBron James Just Got The Coach Of The Year Fired
Toronto Raptors head coach Dwane Casey was voted by his peers as the NBA’s coach of the year two days ago. He received this award for coaching his team to a 59-23 record and the top seed in the Eastern Conference. Today, Casey lost his job. This is because LeBron James exists, and happens to play ba...
Here Are Two More Dope Baseball Things Shohei Ohtani Can Do
One of the most fun things about watching a fresh new baseball darling rack up regular major-league at-bats is all the opportunities to see how the skills you’ve been hearing so much about, all those precious tools, actually manifest themselves on the field. You know a guy has power, but does he hav...
Ben Simmons Was Bad But So What
Nobody needs it explained to them that it’s relatively normal for a rookie, no matter how talented, to play like ass for an entire series in the second round of his first trip to the playoffs. This is how things are generally supposed to go....
The Athletic Has Inflicted<em></em> Rick Reilly Upon You
If you are subscriber to The Athletic, I have some bad news for you:...
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Pissbaby Duke Administrator Gets Baristas Fired For Listening To Rap Music [Update]
If you’ve ever spent time around people blessed with a particular combination of self-absorbtion and privilege, this story, from Indy Week, about a Duke administrator getting two campus baristas fired for daring to listen to rap music while on the job won’t really shock you. It will make you mad as ...
Khaki Shorts Enthusiasts Brawl At Charity Cornhole Tournament
The chamber of commerce in Georgia’s Douglas County holds an annual charity cornhole tournament, the point of which is to raise money for a local scholarship fund. This year, that tournament also served as a place for some husky men in shorts to throw haymakers at each other....
Report: Blue Jays Closer Roberto Osuna Charged With Assaulting A Woman
According to The Athletic and Sportsnet, Toronto Blue Jays closer Roberto Osuna was arrested early Tuesday morning and charged with one count of assault on a woman....
Show Me Nothing But Vlad Guerrero Jr. Dingers
Lots of sports news to consume today. I hear T.J. McConnell did some things. It looks like the Raptors soiled themselves in front of LeBron once again. The Caps did a hockey accomplishment of some sort. I don’t care about any of it! All I care about, for the rest of the summer, is Vlad Guerrero’s st...
NFL Players Association Files Grievance On Behalf Of Eric Reid
Free-agent safety Eric Reid filed a collusion grievance against the NFL last week, accusing league owners of actively colluding in order to keep him from being signed, due to his past decision to protest racial injustice by kneeling for the national anthem. Now, the NFLPA has filed a separate grieva...
Michael Buffer Announces Soccer Lineup While Being Soaked By A Sprinkler
It’s never really a bad idea to get famous boxing announcer Michael Buffer to show up at a sporting event and get people ready to rumble. This is mostly because he’ll always do the job well—he’s had plenty of practice—even when unforeseen obstacles arise. Just ask the fans in attendance at Sunday’s ...
Emma Baccellieri Tracker: Emma Baccellieri To Leave Deadspin, Plus Hot Fresh Anagrams
Staff writer and heinous Duke fan Emma Baccellieri has been minding the night shift around here for about two years now. We’re sad to report that this is her last day at Deadspin, and that she will be leaving us to go work at Sports Illustrated, a once-prestigious publication that now functions as a...
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Panthers Defensive Backs Coach Resigns Amid Harassment Investigation [Update]
On Wednesday, Carolina Panthers defensive backs coach Curtis Fuller suddenly and surprisingly resigned from his position. No reasons for the resignation were given at the time, and head coach Ron Rivera only said, “it’s a complicated situation,” when directly asked about Fuller’s departure. Today, t...
The Celtics Are In Control
In the most basic sense, there’s the 22-point comeback. There’s also the complete disassembling of Ben Simmons and Terry Rozier’s fearlessness and Al Horford’s craft and a whole host of other things that explain how a Boston Celtics team missing both its two best players and a full-strength Jaylen B...
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James Paxton Made 16 Strikeouts Look Easy
The early part of the MLB season has seen strikeout and home run rates continue to rise, and the game is trending towards one that is positively overstuffed with Ks and dingers. A decent theory of why this is happening isn’t too hard to tease out: Batters are consciously taking big swings, which are...
Heckling Weenie Gets His Phone Smacked By James Harden
Russell Westbrook has a theory that Utah Jazz fans are particularly mouthy toward players, and it’s one that was supported by a fan at last night’s game between the Rockets and Jazz....
Draymond Green Dares Charles Barkley To Punch Him In The Face
As he often does during Inside the NBA, a show designed to bait its hosts into late-night ramblings, Charles Barkley got to talking shit last night. Specifically about Warriors forward Draymond Green:...
Alt-Right Ding-Dong Defeated By Sign
Hundreds of people attended the annual March for Immigrant and Workers’ Rights in Seattle yesterday. They were met by a counter-protest organized by the Proud Boys, a far-right organization for sad white men. That should be all the context you need to enjoy this video:...