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The Reds (remember them?) are going to blow up something they never even built
The commonly accepted method for building a contending MLB team these days is to one day decide the team you have is rotten and no longer competitive, flog everything off that isn’t nailed down for prospects and lottery tickets, suck pond scum for a few years to rack up high draft picks that result ...
Sunday Scaries: The Week 13 bets to avoid
It was a rough week for the Sunday Scaries last week....
The Top 10 NBA Draft classes of All Time
In honor of the 2020 NBA Draft on Wednesday, Deadspin is taking the time to rank the top ten drafts in NBA history....
ESPN’s <i>Lance:</i> New Documentary, Same Glib Asshole
Lance Armstrong is a dick....
<em>The Last Dance</em>, <em>Lance</em>, And The Perils Of The Athlete Producer
Why would a celebrity athlete want to do a documentary? What’s in it for them? What do they have to prove? And why now?...
Patriots Draft Pick Justin Rohrwasser's Ignorance About 3 Percenters Isn't Believable
A photo of new Patriots kicker Justin Rohrwasser caused quite a stir Saturday when tattoos on his arms displayed a logo for a far-right group known as “The 3 Percenters” or “III%ers.” The logo is three roman numeral I’s surrounded by a ring of 13 stars, as the original U.S. flag. Rohrwasser, who kic...
Italian Football Club Uses 6-Year-Old Boy's Uniform Design And It Is All The Joy We Need
Perhaps no country could use a smile more than Italy considering how it’s been ravaged by the coronavirus. We could probably all use a smile, to be honest. So let’s thank a 6-year-old and Serie B club Pescara Calcio 1936 for this....
Phil Galfond Pulls Off Poker's Greatest Comeback Ever After Being Down $1M
In what can only be described as the most dramatic match in poker history, Phil Galfond completed an epic comeback against VeniVidi1993 on Easter in their heads-up pot-limit omaha “Galfond Challenge”, winning a 100,000 euro sidebet....
Nats Send Big Wet President To World Series After Failing To Send Runners Home
In the 1976 film Freaky Friday, a mother and daughter learn to forgive one another after a Friday the 13th spell forces the two to switch bodies for a day and experience the other’s life. The lesson at the end is that one of the best ways to resolve conflicts is by seeing the world through another p...
Israel Adesanya Is The Next Big Thing
Two years ago on this very website, Dr. Patrick Wyman wrote about the single most important question facing the UFC: where is the next generation of stars? It’s been a rough search, but last weekend, I think we finally found a great candidate....
Radio Lunk Dan Sileo Loses Three Gigs Within A Year
When last we left Dan Sileo, the radio host who has a tough time not being racist, he was the main attraction on 97.3 The Fan, the San Diego sports radio station that had to quickly rebrand after its original lineup fell apart. He’s since been tossed from three stations including that one, all withi...
FIFA Is Screwing Up The Women's World Cup
On Wednesday, FIFA approved the expansion of the 2023 Women’s World Cup from 24 teams to 32, ignoring concerns about match quality and financial investment in an attempt to capitalize on the growing popularity of women’s soccer. It’s a very FIFA move, as no entity is better at taking a good idea and...
Transit Records Show How 12,000 WWE Fans Got Stranded After WrestleMania
The biggest story of WrestleMania 35 might have been just how damn long the show was, a whopping seven and a half hours, including the “kickoff” show. The card ran until just before 12:30 a.m., which impacted everyone watching both live and at home, but it caused a very specific set of problems for ...
Jorge Masvidal's Flying Knee KO Of Ben Askren Was The Result Of Planning, Not Luck
On an initial viewing of that clip of Jorge Masvidal ending Ben Askren’s undefeated professional MMA run with a flying knee just seconds into the match last Saturday, there isn’t much that looks careful or considered. Masvidal holds his hands behind his back as he and Askren talk some shit across th...
MMA Fighter Penalized For Kicking Opponent In The Butthole Area
MMA rules allow fighters to use a rather comprehensive suite of techniques to knock out or choke their opponents into submission, but even in a sport this brutal, some parts of the body are off limits. I’m talking, of course, about the butthole area....
Donald Cerrone's Controversial Loss To Tony Ferguson Might've Ended Because He Blew His Nose At The Wrong Time
As promised, Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone and Tony Ferguson delivered unrelenting action in the people’s main event at last weekend’s UFC 238. The bout earned fight of the night honors, though it ended in a controversial way that left nobody involved very happy....
You’re Not Mapping Rats, You’re Mapping Gentrification
Where there are people, there are rats. Or, more accurately: Where there are well-off white people, there are complaints about rats. It’s just that two of the country’s biggest newspapers can’t seem to tell the difference....
Boban Marjanovic, Who Was Very Pumped To Be In <i>John Wick 3</i>, Kicked A Stuntman Very Far
Over at the Wall Street Journal, Ben Cohen has an extremely enjoyable breakdown of Boban Marjanovic’s star turn in John Wick 3. At 7-foot-3 and 290 pounds, Boban, then with the Clippers, was handpicked to play a large assassin in a library fight scene alongside Keanu Reeves—and for much of the shoot...
Jessica Andrade's Neck Slam KO Was Legal, But That Doesn't Make It Any Easier To Watch
Tip to tail, UFC 237 was a bummer. Saturday’s event felt sour from the start of the prelims—when former UFC champ B.J. Penn led off the undercard one month after MMA Junkie reported on allegations against Penn of years of physical and sexual abuse—and the evening culminated with Jessica Andrade det...
Which 2013 NFL Draft Prospect Supposedly Tweeted So Much That A Team Lectured Him In A Meeting?
Sports Illustrated’s Kalyn Kahler has a long, detailed story out today over at the MMQB about the pitfalls and importance of scrubbing old tweets from NFL prospects ahead of the draft. There’s a lot of work that goes into preventing another Josh Allen situation. Sometimes, it’s fruitless, and other ...