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Lamar Jackson has chance to silence the critics tonight
In sports, it’s not about how you start. More often, it’s about how you finish....

Josh Jacobs impishly delights in pissing off fantasy football managers
In one of the trolliest moments of the year, Josh Jacobs, running back for the Las Vegas Raiders, took to Instagram before today’s game and instilled panic in the hearts of fantasy managers everywhere....
![WNBA players speak out in support of high school student-athletes after allegations that game cancelled due to BLM t-shirts [Updated]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/yoxfon0etepemgib7c2a.jpg)
WNBA players speak out in support of high school student-athletes after allegations that game cancelled due to BLM t-shirts [Updated]
Update: This story has been updated with statements from American Heritage-Delray School that conflict with initial reports, and with allegations reported in The Palm Beach Post....

MLB Hall of Fame Vets' inaction failing greats of the game like Santo, Allen
Dick Allen’s death on Monday is just the latest failure of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Allen had become a popular candidate in recent years, as the sabermetrics movement showed what a powerful and impactful hitter he was. His raw statistics alone — 351 home runs, a .292 career average — are impressiv...
![NHL stays extremely on-brand in trying to jump COVID vaccine line [UPDATED]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/cfjmjgcvmjtbzjx7r40g.jpg)
NHL stays extremely on-brand in trying to jump COVID vaccine line [UPDATED]
Nobody in sports repeats their mistakes quite like the NHL, the league that lost the entire 2004-05 season to a lockout, then came back in 2012 and had another lockout that cost half a season, all after also having half the 1994-95 season wiped out by a lockout....

Predicting the starting NFL QBs likely to end up elsewhere next year
This offseason will most certainly be a busy one for quarterbacks. A handful of big-name starters are sure to be wearing new uniforms in 2021, either through free agency, retirement, or because they no longer fit with their current team. Here are five starting QBs likely to end up on another team, o...
![Basaksehir and PSG players walk off field after official accused of racial slur [Update]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/j7p9xwuhyqk1kpcie2lq.jpg)
Basaksehir and PSG players walk off field after official accused of racial slur [Update]
In a stunning scene on soccer’s biggest stage, players from PSG and Basaksehir walked off the field at Parc de Princes in the first half after an assistant coach for Basaksehir, former player Pierre Webo, accused the fourth official of calling him the n-word....

Maggie, first to get COVID vaccine, took one for the team of fans
Meet Margaret Keenan, 90, of Coventry, England. Today the whole world did, because she became the first patient on the planet to receive the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine....

Week 13 Powerless Rankings: Wading through the NFL’s putrid muck
It’s time once again to highlight the teams stinking up the joint every single week....

In MVP race, Aaron Rodgers is leader of The Pack
Aaron Rodgers isn’t just in the NFL MVP race. Let’s face it, he’s leading the way....

<em> Sports Illustrated</em> whiffs on Sportsperson of the Year qualifications
This column is not an indictment of LeBron James, Breanna Stewart, Patrick Mahomes, Naomi Osaka, or Laurent Duvernay-Tardif. It is, however, a callout of Sports Illustrated for limiting their “2020 Sportsperson of the Year: The Activist Athlete” to those who were “champions on the field, champions f...

Jaguars defy laws of nature with off-the-back deflection catch for TD
How is this physically possible?...
![Election hero Steve Kornacki to stay on for season to break down the NFL playoff picture [UPDATED]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/pcvhtfo7pyvjzahkc6nc.png)
Election hero Steve Kornacki to stay on for season to break down the NFL playoff picture [UPDATED]
After a successful debut on Football Night in America, Steve Kornacki will return to the NFL playoff Big Board for the remainder of the season for NBC. He won’t be needed for over at the political desk for any recounts or vote tallies. Instead, we’ll get to see the man in khakis tell us how the New ...

Racist dirtbag costs Utah fans their NWSL team
Usually when a fanbase is stripped of their team because of their owner, it’s because the owner is simply unconscionably greedy, Modell-like stupid, or both. They can’t leverage their city into a publicly-funded larceny for a new stadium (or at least not as big of a theft as their black heart desire...


Cancel the CFB playoff, nothing will beat BYU - Coastal Carolina
There was only one really exciting matchup on the college football docket on Saturday, and Coastal Carolina-BYU, arranged at the last minute after the Chanticleers’ game against Liberty was canceled, lived up to having the College GameDay crew on hand in Myrtle Beach....

Smoke up! NBA won’t test players for weed, could help take the game ... higher
The NBA will not test its players for marijuana during the 2020-21 season, sources tell Ben Dowsett....

Did AEW 'Sting' its biggest night by shoving viewers off to Impact?
Only when “The Wednesday Night Wars” end, if they’re even a thing, will we know which were the seminal moments, the turning points. It’s the kind of thing you need hindsight for. And with wrestling, any decision one week can be explained or reversed or changed the following week (or, if you’re Vince...

Nope, that wasn’t Matt Patricia’s burner account going in on Matthew Stafford
So, that Matt Patricia burner account is claiming that it isn’t Matt Patricia....
