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This is the future baseball wants for you; and eat, drink and be Murray

MLB will have you believe that this was a dramatic night in the last week of its season. And on the surface, it does look like that. Teams got more bunched, there were walk-offs and extra innings and standings swings and such. However, flip up the hood and you’ll see the engine is just a hamster tak...

Chiefs Deploy 'New Technology' for Andy Reid's Foggy Face Shield

Chiefs Head Coach Andy Reid will be rocking his famous COVID-19 protective face shield again in week 2 against the Chargers. ...

Workhorse Verlander (aka Mr. Upton) to Undergo Tommy John Surgery; Astros Career May Be Over

Reigning Cy Young winner and future Hall of Famer Justin Verlander will need Tommy John surgery, ending his 2020 season and most likely his 2021 season as well....

We Rank the Best No. 1 NFL Draft Pick Quarterbacks of All Time

Quarterbacks have had a pretty significant impact on the history of the NFL. They are often the most important players on the field on any given Sunday....

The Bengals Can’t Let Joe Burrow Become the Next Andrew Luck

The Bengals need to be careful. ...

Let's Enjoy the Celtics' Implosion. Plus, the Yankees Continue Hitting Homers Like Crazy

The Celtics’ season is going down the toilet....

Hey Big Ten, How About Daily COVID Testing for My Kid?

Well, the Big Ten finally cracked....

Expanded Playoffs Suck, But Here’s a Way to Fix It

Rob Manfred says this season’s expanded baseball playoffs are likely to remain in place for 2021 and beyond, and everybody hates it....

Well-Fed Nitwits Stroke Egos, Accomplish Nothing in NCAA Sham Senate Hearing

The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education Labor & Pensions convened today for a hearing on college athlete compensation. Among the many babbling voices in the room, player advocacy was scarce....

Players Breathe Toxic Air as West Coast Burns: What the Hell Is Wrong With Baseball? UPDATE: M's Postponed

Update: Amid western wildfires and hazardous air quality, the MLB and NFL continued to play on Monday night, but on Tuesday, sanity was restore....

Deadspin Over/Under Bet of the Week: Pats Begin Life Without Brady

Over/Under: 41.5...

Islanders Learning There Just Might Not Be Anything They Can Do

Buzzer-beaters are supposed to be the territory of the NBA’s Orlando bubble, but the Tampa Bay Lightning moved the phenomenon 2800 miles to the Northwest on Wednesday night. Nikita Kucherov capped off the Bolts’ best offensive foray of the night by scoring off Ryan McDonagh’s cross-ice pass with jus...

Caster Semenya Loses Her Appeal, But Nobody Wins

The continuing case of South African runner Caster Semenya and her fight against the IAAF’s restrictions on her, and others’, bodies reached its likely conclusion Tuesday. ...

The Deadspin 2020 NFL Previews, AFC North: Young Guns and Scumbag Ben

This is yet another division that seems to be perennially up for grabs between a couple of teams, at least on paper, but unlike the NFC North, this division is fresh and exciting. A rookie quarterback! An MVP quarterback that Bill Polian wanted to convert to wide receiver! An annual dogfight to the ...

The Deadspin 2020 NFL Previews, AFC East: Tom’s Gone. Who’s Got Next?

For the past two decades, the safest bet in sports was for the to win their division. Not anymore....

Joe West Is A Plague

You ever ask yourself what would happen if you took Tony Soprano, fed him nothing but baked beans out of a can for four months while only allowing him to listen to Hank Williams Jr. songs? The answer, my friends, is Joe West, who worked his shit-kicked-into-his-own-brains voodoo again yesterday....

U.S. Soccer Could Learn Something from England and [Checks Notes] Brazil (!) on Equal Pay

Rays Manager Reminds Yankees He has Guys Who Throw Hard, Too

A shortened baseball season isn’t weird enough to keep some traditions from continuing. The Pirates suck, the Dodgers are Skynet, and Aroldis Chapman is a cowardly asshat. Tonight he thought it’d be fun to fire a 101 MPH fastball directly at Michael Brosseau’s head, which came a millimeter or two fr...

While the Rest Of MLB Only Sees What Isn’t, A.J. Preller Sees What Could Be

As I wrote in the Mourning After, it seems strange that any MLB team would view this season with anything other than suspicion or derision. It’s hard to have any feel for what your team is after just 30 games, if your team has even gotten to 30 games. The expanded playoffs mean that just about anyon...

LSU’s Ja’Marr Chase Doing a Better Job of Educating Athletes on COVID-19 Than Most Colleges

Ja’Marr Chase is a smart man....