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Lionel Messi Is All Alone
It’s a funny thing, talking about what an athlete deserves. Sports are the ultimate results-oriented business, where no matter how much you love your mother or how kind and considerate you are to lovers and waiters or even how well you played in any given game, if the final whistle blows and you loo...
This Cuban Gymnast Might Be The Next Men's World Champion
MONTREAL, Canada—Tonight a new men’s gymnastics world champion will be crowned for the first time since 2009. With six-time defending world champion Kohei Uchimura forced to withdraw from the competition with an ankle injury, the men’s field—like the Simone Biles-less women’s field—is wide open. The...
Look At This Big Dumb World Cup Stadium
Soccer fans who travel to see some hot World Cup action next summer in Yekaterinburg, the easternmost of Russia’s 11 host cities, will not only get to watch soccer from inside a stadium, they’ll also simultaneously get to watch soccer from outside the very same stadium, thanks to some creative const...
This Is How The Yankees Are Built To Win
No team plans on their starter getting knocked out after just one out in a deciding playoff game, but no team is as prepared for the possibility as the Yankees, who showed off their considerable strengths in a wild, interminable 8-4 win over the Twins to advance to the ALDS....
David Robertson Exhibits Five Stages Of Grief After Watching Gary Sanchez Get Hit In The Dick And Balls
In the top of the sixth inning tonight, Yankees catcher Gary Sanchez was struck in the junk by a foul tip. Here is pitcher David Robertson’s reaction, as captured by Elsa of Getty Images:...
Yankees, Twins Offer Strong Display Of Starting Pitching In First Inning
Luis Severino has been the best part of the Yankees’ rotation this year, leading the team’s starters in ERA (2.98) and FIP (3.07) and strikeout rate (10.71 per nine innings). He’s forced more ground balls than almost anyone else (more than half of his contact) and allowed fewer home runs (fewer than...
The Return Of The Triple Back Somersault In Men's Gymnastics
MONTREAL, Canada—Here is something amazing: I saw a triple back somersault on floor exercise....
The USMNT Can't Afford To Lose
The United States Men’s National Team has two games left in CONCACAF World Cup Qualifying, two games against teams that, by all accounts, the USMNT should not have any problems dispatching. Trinidad & Tobago have gotten owned more or less nonstop throughout the Hex, and Panama were lousy enough to l...
Gymnasts Redo Routines After Floor Breaks At World Championships<em></em>
MONTREAL, Canada—Bart Deurloo, the Dutch gymnast who was almost knocked out earlier this week by a fall from the high bar, is the hero of the 2017 world championships. He was the final gymnast to compete on the floor exercise during the last rotation (of six) of the men’s fourth preliminary subdivis...
Neymar Free Kick Golazo Puts PSG Up Early
Neymar delivered a free kick golazo that put PSG up 1-0 on Bordeaux less than five minutes into the match. He followed it up moments later by setting up Edinson Cavani for a second goal. Drama? No drama here. ...
Neymar And Cavani's Mid-Game Ego Clash Brings Some Drama To PSG
Probably the most astounding part of Barcelona’s world-historic Messi-Suárez-Neymar attacking line—even more so than all the tricks and flicks and assists and goals—was how well all three got along. The MSN era was defined by those three superstars’ genuine friendship, selflessness, and prioritizati...
Second Sample Confirms Jon Jones's Failed Drug Test At UFC 214
Three weeks after news broke that Jon Jones had tested positive for the anabolic steroid Turinabol just before defeating Daniel Cormier at UFC 214, a second urine sample from the weekend of the fight has confirmed the original result....
Hello Pac-12 After Darkness, My Old Friend
Like any great, late college football match-up involving a Pac-12 team, last night/this morning’s Washington State-Boise State battle went well beyond the bounds of acceptable football watching time, with triple overtime wrapping up after 2:30 a.m. on the east coast. Folks, this game had everything:...
Thus Begins The Thrilling, Terrifying Neymar-Mbappé-Cavani Era
Today marked Paris Saint-Germain’s official unveiling of what should prove to be a legendary (and is already legendarily expensive) forward line of Neymar (€222 million), Kylian Mbappé (€180 million), and Edinson Cavani (€63 million). And while the team naturally doesn’t have the tactical gears tick...
Yet Another UFC Main Event Derailed By Last-Second Medical Issue
This weekend, Demetrious Johnson was supposed to fight Ray Borg and go for the all-time record for consecutive UFC title defenses. Johnson is one of the greats and as perfect of a fighter as you’ll see in the UFC today, and while Borg is “fine,” the flyweight belt is DJ’s and he was probably going ...
The Battle To Stop A Sparks-Lynx Rematch In The WNBA Finals Has Begun
The 2017 WNBA Playoffs are underway and, if last night’s first round of single-elimination games are any indication, it’s going to be a fiercely competitive road to the Finals....
FS1 Won't Be Airing Jason Whitlock's Latest Colin Kaepernick Skit
On Tuesday, All Takes Matter co-host Jason Whitlock started an internet firestorm with this tweet:...
Why Your Team Sucks 2017: New England Patriots<em></em>
Some people are fans of the New England Patriots. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New England Patriots. This 2017 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here....
South American World Cup Qualifying Is Dope As Hell
For most of the world’s elite national teams, qualifying for the World Cup is a charade. Sure, Spain and Germany and the other powerhouses have to earn their places into the world’s biggest sporting event, but because those countries are so reliably great, they can generally nab their spot without t...
FIFA Orders World Cup Qualifier To Be Replayed After Referee Banned For Life
Last November, South Africa beat Senegal 2-1 in a World Cup qualifying match, their only win through four qualifying games. However, a few months after the game, Joseph Lamptey, the referee in charge, was found guilty of “unlawfully influencing match results” and was subsequently banned for life. He...