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Reports: Giants To Hire Offensive Coordinator Ben McAdoo As Head Coach
The New York Giants are poised to hire offensive coordinator Ben McAdoo as their next head coach, according to multiple reports. McAdoo has been the offensive coordinator for the past two seasons, after having been the Packers tight ends and then quarterbacks coach....
Deadspin Up All Night: I Need To Score
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Your Deadcast Divisional Round Preview
Whoa hey, it’s divisional playoff weekend! WOOHOO FUCK YEAH! Can Peyton Manning reanimate his own dead body? Will Antonio Brown play? Will the Panthers choke like I expect them to? And what did I just sit on? SO MANY QUESTIONS. But fear not, we’re here to answer them in a very special Deadcast....
Report: Top Track & Field Officials Discussed Covering Up Doping Prior To London Olympics
Late last year, the World Anti-Doping Agency released a bombshell report detailing all manner of doping, bribing, and cover-ups by Russian track and field athletes, the Russian federation, and the Russian government. Russia received an indefinite ban from track and field for their wrongdoing, and co...
Rams And Chargers Fans! Let Us Help You Say Goodbye To Your Owners
Congratulations, Rams and Chargers fans! Your favorite teams have just abandoned you in favor of playing football at sunny and beautiful LAX International Airport. What a thrill! This brings to an end a sometimes contentious process that will, at long last, leave you in the dust and enrichen owners ...
Deadspin Up All Night: The New Age
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Gary Bettman Gets Huffy While Defending The Stadium Financing Scam
The Calgary Flames, like so many sports franchises, want Canadian taxpayers to foot the bill for a new stadium complex that would cost about $890 million to build. This morning, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman went on Calgary Eyeopener to discuss the Flames’ proposal, and he didn’t enjoy getting pushe...
Peter King Sounds New Depths Of Stoogery With Open Letter To NFL Players
For all the danger they purport to identify in the world, conspiracy theories, at bottom, are comforting. They’re orderly and symmetrical and closed, like a square dance, matching participants 1:1 to malign intents and thus to culpability. Either you are in the conspiracy by cynical choice and sinis...
Here's The Luxury-Box Booze Menu For The National Championship Game
You’re in Glendale. You’re so ready for what should be a great National Championship Game. You’re cozy and comfortable in your corporate suite, either because you know the right people or you’re rich as hell. You want to get bent. ...
Officials' Timing Blunder Hurts Clemson; FG Attempt Falls Short
Greg Huegel’s 44-yard field goal attempt fell short after Clemson found themselves without a chance to run an additional play when officials allowed several seconds to run off the clock after a first down late in the first half of tonight’s national championship....
Deadspin Up All Night: Nothing Will Help Us
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Crying Knicks Child Is Now A Big Kristaps Porzingis Fan
Remember that little Knicks fan who sobbed like a baby when his team drafted Kristaps Porzingis?...
Why Your Children's Television Program Sucks: <i>Mickey Mouse Clubhouse </i>
It’s time once again for our ongoing series surveying the awful shows you’re forced to endure before you can finally kick the kids out of the TV room to watch sports for eight hours....
This Poor Vikings Fan Inside The Stadium Thought Blair Walsh's Kick Was Good
What’s worse than watching your team bone itself out of a playoff victory with a missed 27-yard field goal? Celebrating because you thought the kick was good....
RGIII Cleaned Out His Locker And Left Behind An Overwrought Goodbye Note
Washington’s season-ending loss on Sunday also brought an official end to the Robert Griffin III era. Griffin, who didn’t play a down all season and will surely be cut this offseason, left the team as only he could: with a corny note....
Atlético Madrid Are A Miracle
Because Atlético Madrid have been consistently really good for a handful of years now and truly great for about two or three, we’ve almost become numb to the fact that they are once again legitimate contenders in the Spanish league. This should not be the case. Halfway through the season, Atlético c...
Trump Endorses Brain Damage In Speech That Claims Football, Like America, Has Gone "Soft"
Donald Trump ranted at length today during a Reno campaign stop about how “soft” he believes the game of football has become, pointing to last night’s Steelers-Bengals game as an illustration of how player-safety rules are ruining America....
Deadspin Up All Night: Shop For Lobsters
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Here's How Blair Walsh's Missed Game-Winner Sounded On Vikings, Seahawks Radio Calls
Blair Walsh’s heartbreaking shank that ended Minnesota’s season lifted spirits in the Pacific Northwest just as it crushed those in the Land of A Ten Thousand Lakes. Here’s how his missed 27-yarder sounded on KFAN in the Twin Cities (above) and on KIRO in Seattle (below)....
Poor Vikings Fans Shot The Saddest Videos After Devastating Loss
Minnesota lost in the cruelest goddamn way this afternoon as Blair Walsh blew it and missed a 27-yarder. And much like their brothers and sisters in sadness down in Cleveland, they created some emotionally charged videos of themselves reacting to the missed kick. Below, a journey into the annals of ...