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Martellus Bennett's Daughter Is Moving Up The Sports Baby Rankings

Riley Curry and T.J. Smith might be feeling comfortable at the top of the sports baby hierarchy but Jett Bennett, Patriots tight end Martellus Bennett’s daughter, laid down the foundation for her campaign after New England’s Super Bowl win last night....

Donald Trump Is The Ultimate Frontrunner

On top of everything else, Donald Trump is the scummiest kind of sports fan. The Patriots were losing 28-3 in the third quarter when he ditched his Super Bowl watch party in Florida:...

Someone Seems To Have Stolen Tom Brady's Super Bowl Jersey

We have an honest-to-God post-Super Bowl mystery on our hands, and I am elated. You see, Tom Brady doesn’t know what happened to his game jersey:...

A Timeline Of Proposed Super Bowl 51 Headlines From Last Night

The Deadspin staff convened in our staff chatroom last night to discuss and coordinate our coverage of Super Bowl 51 while we all watched it from our various homes and/or Super Bowl parties. As the game unfolded, staffers suggested various headlines for our postgame story; I’ve compiled them into a ...

What The Hell Was Kyle Shanahan Thinking?

You’ve watched enough football games to understand what’s supposed to happen when a team is up 28-12 and has the ball with 9:40 left to play. They run the ball as much as they can, they squeeze every second out of the game clock, and they win the goddamn game....

James White's Super Bowl-Winning Touchdown, As Heard On Patriots & Falcons Radio And Around The World

James White’s touchdown in overtime gave the Patriots their fifth NFL title and ended one of the wildest Super Bowls in history. Here’s how that championship-winning play sounded on nine different broadcasts, including, in order: Fox, Fox Deportes, Patriots radio, Falcons radio, BBC Radio 5, Westwoo...

Tom Brady Seals Status As Greatest Player Ever As Nation Mourns

Those wild, magical assholes managed to do it again. For the fifth time in seven appearances, the New England Patriots are Super Bowl champions....

Halftime Show Dancer Pays Tribute To Patriots' Offense

One of Lady Gaga’s dancers was really into it during tonight’s Super Bowl halftime show. ...

Tom Brady's Pick-Six, As Heard Around The World

So far the biggest moment of tonight’s Super Bowl was Tom Brady throwing a pick-six. For the purposes of critical and educational analysis, we allow you to listen to and discuss the play as it was called by announcers on Fox Deportes, BBC 1, PULS 4 (Austria), and Televisa (Mexico). Which broadcaster...

Julio Jones: Smooth Criminal

Julio Jones hauled in a fantastic sideline catch en route to the Falcons’ second touchdown tonight—one viewers around the world felt deserving of the Moonwalker treatment. ...

Kirk Cousins Shoves Volunteer Official At Charity Flag Football Game [Update]

We’ve illustrated Kirk Cousins’s legendary competitiveness a few times, but the Washington QB may have taken it a bit far today at a charity flag football game when he got very angry and shoved a volunteer official....

Your Super Bowl LI <i>Tecmo Super Bowl</i> Simulation Is Live

We updated the rosters. We updated the uniforms. We even updated the end zones. It’s time to CPU vs. CPU simulate Sunday’s Super Bowl in Tecmo Super Bowl, LIVE:...

The Falcons' Defense Is Basically Fucked

Patriots-Falcons in Super Bowl 51 is being billed as a showcase of the NFL’s two most prolific offenses, at the height of their powers. The Patriots, of course, are the known entity: Tom Brady and [insert name here] on offense, along with a defense that frequently schemes its way into being greater ...

What Time Does 'What Time Does The Superbowl Start?' Start?

The Super Bowl is allegedly this weekend, and reports indicate that the contest will be played in Houston between the Atlanta Falcons and New England Patriots. ...

Roger Goodell On Trump, The Wall, And Muslim Ban: Football

When asked by the media about Donald Trump’s Muslim ban this afternoon, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell responded like Tom Brady and essentially grunted, “Football.”...

The Case Of Kyle Shanahan's Missing Backpack Has Been Solved

Kyle Shanahan is about to coach in the biggest game of his career. He might need his playbook this weekend, but he lost it after the backpack he was carrying it around in at NFL media day got nabbed! Who could have pulled off such a dastardly caper?...

A Certain Fancy Dog Might Not Share That Opinion

The Hard Work Is About To Get Harder

Zucotti Park is beautiful in the holiday season. Delicate strings of white lights coat the trees where, just a few years ago, thousands of angry people stomped and plotted and harangued the world during the Occupy Wall Street encampment. Across the street to the east, the warm lights of the Brown Br...

Eddie Alvarez Explains His Loss To Conor McGregor: "I Fucking Blew It"

Eddie Alvarez was completely dominated by Conor McGregor during their lightweight championship bout on Saturday. On his Instagram account today, Alvarez offered a succinct and depressing explanation for the loss:...

Conor McGregor Won And He's Not Going To Fucking Apologize

Conor McGregor has pissed off a lot of people, which is generally what happens when you talk a lot of shit and throw drinks and do other things of that nature. So in his first act after becoming the only UFC fighter ever to hold two belts at the same time—now adding a lightweight title to his feathe...