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Chris Sale Made Some People Look Very Stupid
Chris Sale pitched against the Toronto Blue Jays last night, and he struck out 11 batters in seven innings in a 3-0 win. “Struck out 11 batters” doesn’t quite describe what happened on that field, though. It’s more accurate to say that Sale demoralized 11 batters....
Are You Buying What Maria Sharapova Is Selling?<em></em>
Everything about Maria Sharapova’s first grand slam match since her April return from a 15-month doping ban was exaggerated. The venue: New York City’s Arthur Ashe stadium at night, tennis’s biggest, most electric stage. The opponent: world No. 2 defensive specialist Simona Halep, hungry for her f...
The U.S. Open Men's Draw Is A Joke
If you’re a man who can stand upright without anything hurting, you’ve got as good a shot as anyone to win the 2017 U.S. Open. Gone are the elites usually clotting the late rounds of majors. Of the top 11 players in men’s tennis, five of them are too hurt to play: No. 11 Milos Raonic, No. 10 Kei Nis...
Chris Sale Has A Cleveland Problem
Chris Sale’s night in Cleveland on Thursday was shockingly bad by the Cy Young frontrunner’s 2017 standards, but unsurprising given what the Indians have done to Sale in his career. In an eventual 13-6 loss for the Red Sox, Sale gave up six earned runs (seven total) on seven hits and three walks. It...
Attention: Half Of Canada Calls Kickball "Soccer Baseball"
Alarming news from the north....
My Five Favorite Moments From The Yankees-Tigers Brawl
Yesterday saw the weirdest and most interesting game of the season, a 10-6 Tigers win over the Yankees that saw eight ejections, four batters hit by pitches, three bench clearings, and a whole bunch of legitimate punches....
Gylfi Sigurdsson Drops In A Goal From The Heavens
Oh man, this is some way to introduce yourself to your new fans. In only his second appearance for Everton, Gylfi Sigurdsson has just scored this insane blast from the middle of the park against Hajduk Split in a Europa League qualifying match:...
Alexandr Dolgopolov Match Investigated Over Fixing Suspicions
Most talk of match-fixing in tennis comes cloaked in too many layers of anonymity to feel genuinely juicy. When the Tennis Integrity Unit, the independent body charged with sniffing out corruption in the sport, releases its quarterly report, there’s a section detailing matches that raised suspicions...
How Much Longer Will This Be Fun?
It’s not just that you can’t always get what you want—sometimes, once what you want finally materializes, you wonder why you ever wanted it in the first place....
When Women Played Baseball
I went to Rockford, Ill. to watch girls play baseball 63 years after the real Rockford Peaches of the All-American Girls’ Professional Baseball League played their last season and 25 years after A League Of Their Own introduced their story to a new generation. The Peaches were the most successful te...
How Not To React When Your Team Gives Up A Goal
Everton hosted Croatian side Hajduk Split for a Europa League qualifier this afternoon, which meant that hundreds of Hajduk fans traveled to Liverpool for the game. They appeared to be ready to get rowdy before the match, and they delivered once things started. Everton’s Michael Keane (no apparent r...
Grizzlies Coach David Fizdale On Confederate Statues: "Take 'Em Down"
Memphis Grizzles coach David Fizdale shared his perspective on last weekend’s white nationalist rally and subsequent domestic terrorism in Charlottesville in an interview today, condemning President Donald Trump’s response to the event and calling for Confederate memorials to be taken down....
Frances Tiafoe, The Best American Teen, Gets Biggest Win Of His Career
Both of these players, aged 19 and 20, are nominally the “next generation,” but the latter has already arrived—he’s in the top 10 and has racked up more titles this year than anyone not named Roger Federer or Rafael Nadal. The other one won today in Cincinnati....
Roger Federer's Dream Season Might Be Finally Catching Up To Him
Roger Federer showed up to the Montreal final Sunday in the stuff he’d been winning in all week: stubble of a sleepless new dad (he is an old dad), toasted tan, shirt the color of a very clean piglet. He also showed up with a 35-2 record. Federer has alternated between two modes this season: rest or...
As Usual, Tennessee Will Be Good, But Not Too Good
Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...
This Is The Slowest Possible Way To Not Lose
Alexander Zverev was down match point against Richard Gasquet in the third set of their second-round Rogers Cup match Wednesday. The resulting exchange wasn’t exactly fun to watch, but it was impressive, in the way endurance sports are. The best comparison would be two people pushing the last bite o...
Is Gareth Bale Even Worth It?
Gareth Bale, once the assumed heir to Cristiano Ronaldo’s throne at Real Madrid, is now at risk of becoming an afterthought. Acquired from Tottenham in 2013 for a then-record transfer fee, Bale has only topped 30 La Liga appearances once in four seasons for Real Madrid. True, he has been as good as ...
JaVale McGee Provides Pick-Up Game Highlights And Statistics
During the summer, NBA players often post short, low-quality clips of themselves getting shots up or lifting weights in order to prove that there truly are no days off and that ball is indeed life. These dispatches are mostly self-serving, but you can’t help but appreciate the effort JaVale McGee ha...
Tennessean Tennis Pro Tennys Sandgren Is Out Here Doing Racquet Sports
Ava Wallace of the Washington Post has a fun story about Tennys Sandgren, ranked No. 102 in men’s tennis, who advanced in the Citi Open Wednesday afternoon after his opponent, 20th-ranked Nick Kyrgios, retired in the second set. Our man Tennys is a tennis pro, and his name is Tennys, which rhymes wi...
Dee Gordon Breaks Up No-Hitter In Ninth Inning On José Fernández's Birthday
Gio González took a no-hit bid into the ninth inning for the first time in his career, but a Dee Gordon single ensured that Miami would not go hitless on what would have been José Fernández’s 25th birthday....