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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....

Add the A’s to MLB’s List of Teams Infected by COVID-19

Halfway through the season sprint, another MLB team has recorded another positive COVID test, bringing the contamination total to five teams....

Security Calls Cops on Brandon Marshall for the Crime of Being Black in a Rich Neighborhood – His Own

When Black professional athletes say police brutality and being treated like a criminal is important to them, they truly mean it because it’s personal. ...

No Fans to Celebrate Giolito No-No is SO On-Brand for 2020

What happens if there’s a no-hitter and nobody’s there to cheer it?...

Sorry, There is No Double Standard to See Here

Today, I’m trashing all those who think had a white guy said what the Clippers’ Montrezl Harrell said to the Mavs’ Luka Dončić that his career would have been toast....

If Triston McKenzie Weren’t Black, He’d Be The Talk of Baseball

What if I told you that over the weekend, Cleveland’s baseball team defeated the Detroit Tigers 6-1 off the strength of its rookie pitcher that only allowed two hits and struck out 10 batters in six innings of work....

Maybe Fair-Weather Fans Are Actually Good for Sports

Last year, just after the Washington Nationals improbably clinched the NLCS to earn a berth in the World Series, a local news reporter outside of National Park waded into the celebration....

This Year's Indy 500 Could Have Been Great

The Indianapolis 500 was Sunday, something that would have gone completely without notice if not for the fact that digital channel guides exist, such is the state of IndyCar in general these days, and such is the state of the world because the pandemic knocked the race out of its traditional spot on...

Marc-Andre Fleury's Agent Tweeted this Picture

As an athlete, you always want to know that your agent has your back, but this is certainly a strange spin on that concept....

We Rank the Worst No. 1 Picks in NBA Lottery History

Since the NBA’s first draft lottery in 1985, there have been 11 first-overall picks who did not make an All-NBA team or appear in an All-Star Game. That number is a little inflated because Zion Williamson and DeAndre Ayton are just getting started, so when you’re trying to figure out which is the wo...

Gross, Stupid & Sexist: Latest Bile Proves Time to Ice Milbury From NHL Was Ages Ago (UPDATED)

The NHL Bubble continued, with two more teams biting the dust in the form of the Washington Capitals and Calgary Flames. But that’s not the main story emerging from it, because this is hockey with hockey people and if you keep hockey people on TV long enough, they’ll vomit up some kind of vile, fu...

Drilling Down on Thursday's NBA Draft Lottery

The moment seemed it would never come because of COVID-19, but the 2020 NBA Draft lottery is here. We’ll finally get this year’s draft order. ...

Other Great Moments In Middle Finger History (Figuratively)

(Although it will be very on-brand of me to do a literal middle finger history someday soon)...

We Tracked Down Method Man’s Youth Lacrosse Coach

Alan Hodish was at home with his family on Long Island a few weeks ago when he heard his name on national television....

White Fragility Alert: They Only Hate Fernando Tatis Jr. Because He’s So Good

Fernando Tatis Jr. is an MVP candidate at the age of 21, leading the National League in home runs nearly halfway through this abbreviated season while sparking the San Diego Padres into contention for what would be their first playoff appearance since 2006....