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Should be beginning of the end for Jim Harbaugh at Michigan
It’s a Trash Talking Tuesday and today I’m trashing Michigan football coach Jim Harbaugh....
What the NFL's postseason expansion talks suggest
The NFL jumped into the flying-by-their-ass pool Monday by reportedly discussing expanding this year’s playoffs to 16 teams. This coming after they expanded it to 14 already, and they may just jump over that this January without ever trying it....
Week 8 Powerless Rankings: Poor Trevor Lawrence
Another Sunday of NFL football has concluded....
Tua's first win, Chargers throw up on themselves, and helmet-punching Bears are the worst 5-3 team ever
It’s hard to believe that we are already halfway through the 2020 NFL season....
My God, please stop putting the NFC East in primetime
If you watched this game on Sunday Night Football — a 23-9 Eagles win over the Cowboys — I would just like to take this time to say a prayer for you....
Lamar Jackson still can't pass big test, while Steelers are incapable of failing even one
While much of the nation was stuck watching Colts-Lions (and got to see Nyheim Hines’ roundoff backflip with a full twist, twice!) the marquee matchup of the day yesterday was between the Steelers and the Ravens....
Javon Wims gives C.J. Gardner-Johnson a two-piece special with no fries
Chicago wide receiver Javon Wims was ejected today after randomly hitting a Saints player in the face… twice....
Deadspin Argues About Stuff: Rating Tua's debut
Dustin Foote: Alright Donovan, Tua Tagovailoa just won his first start against the Rams in Miami. We argued about whether or not the Dolphins should start Tua when Miami made the announcement two weeks ago. I wanted him in, you wanted him out. With the win, did coach Brian Flores make the right call...
Cam Newton is just good enough to break your heart
After nearly two decades of not just expecting. but knowing, all the right plays at all the right times, it must be a crash equivalent to falling from orbit for Patriots fans to see the exact wrong thing happen at the exact wrong time....
![Nyheim Hines’ badass spin move for TD isn’t even the most impressive part [UPDATED]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/rzw5llkjrzrmdhcv92vj.png)
Nyheim Hines’ badass spin move for TD isn’t even the most impressive part [UPDATED]
Update - HE DID IT AGAIN:...
Dan Mullen uses Star Wars character to show once again that he isn’t fit to run a college football program
Dan Mullen has been doing the most all of 2020. ...
Sunday Scaries: The Week 8 bets to avoid
It’s been a few weeks since an NFL game has been canceled. But there seems to be at least one game a week that could be postponed at any moment....
Rutgers laterals their way to, well, a huge loss after crazy 'touchdown' is called back
There should be a rule in sports that if a play is so awesome, you won’t see anything like it for the rest of the decade, then it counts. No replay review. No overturns. No complaining from the other team, because they know how cool it was, too....
No, a college football team can't beat pros, but could a Pee Wee team beat '20 Kansas? Jury's out.
With Trevor Lawrence out due to coronavirus and top-ranked Clemson needing a furious comeback from an 18-point halftime deficit to avoid being upset at home and beat Boston College, 34-28, we can put aside for a moment that classic silly question of whether the Tigers beat the New York Jets....
Trevor Lawrence tests positive for COVID-19 as this all continues to go terribly
The biggest man on campus has COVID-19....
Giants left with only four O-Linemen after Will Hernandez’s COVID diagnosis sends rest home
When you hear the phrase “history repeats itself,” you usually think of some time in the distant past being relived — not last week. ...
Dan Mullen makes sense for first time all year with call for national voting holiday
Florida Head Coach Dan Mullen is a perplexing individual....
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...
![Wisconsin could run out of quarterbacks soon [UPDATED]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/e39rxlpowmpuvmxvobc0.jpg)
Wisconsin could run out of quarterbacks soon [UPDATED]
The Big Ten wrapped up Week One. Yay! ...