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Kevin Durant Says He Will Not Visit White House: "I Don't Respect Who's In Office Right Now"<em></em><em></em>
Kevin Durant said today that he will not visit the White House if invited, noting that he does not agree with or respect President Donald Trump....
How Long Will Giancarlo Stanton Hit Homers in Miami?
Baseball’s hottest player is on a team that isn’t going anywhere this fall. Last night Giancarlo Stanton homered in his sixth straight game, a team record. It was his 11th homer in his last 12 games, and his 23rd in his last 35. He has 44 on the season, and also leads the league in slugging percenta...
This ESPN Fantasy Football Auction Segment Is ... Yikes
I don’t know if this tone-deaf fantasy football auction segment that ESPN2 aired yesterday, with its galling resemblance to a slave auction, means that nobody involved in its production saw or understood Get Out, or if they’ve never read a history book, or if they’re all just really dumb, nor do I k...
Giancarlo Stanton Is Mashing <i>So Many</i> Taters
With his first-inning knock in last night’s 8-3 Marlins win over the Giants, Giancarlo Stanton’s numbers are downright incredible. He’s homered in five straight games. He has more home runs in August than the Pirates, and as many as the Rays. He has 10 homers in his last 11. And 22 in his last 34....
Florida Suspends Seven Players For Opener Against Michigan
Florida and Michigan will open their seasons on September 2 in Arlington, Texas. The neutral-site contest between two big-conference teams expected to open in the top 25 should be a fun one. However, it’ll be significantly less fun now that Florida has suspended seven players, including star wide re...
Diego Costa Is Hanging Out At Home And Talking Shit About Chelsea
The highlight of the first full weekend of hot Premier League action was not Manchester United flushing West Ham down the toilet, Wayne Rooney rescuing Everton, nor American ex-pat community Huddersfield Town winning their debut Premier League match 3-0. No, it was Antonio Conte’s Chelsea side eatin...
Odell Beckham Jr. Isn't Fair
There’s Giants wideout Odell Beckham Jr. this morning at training camp, doing what he does even as Janoris Jenkins plays him perfectly. Here’s the full video:...
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Yankees Fans Enjoy Subway Ride [NSFW]
Being a sports fan isn’t all sunshine and rainbows, and when the team you root for fails to give you the joy and pleasure you’re after, sometimes you have to look for alternate avenues for good sensations. Hence these two Yankees fans coming together in sexual congress on the 5 train after the Yanks...
Don't Ask Dan Quinn What Time It Is
Falcons head coach Dan Quinn, fresh off blowing a 28-3 lead in the Super Bowl, has joined the rich NFL tradition of corny motivational gimmicks. Behold the clock in Quinn’s office:...
Michael Bennett Sits For National Anthem After Charlottesville Violence
Seahawks DE Michael Bennett became the latest NFL player to sit for the national anthem, ahead of Sunday’s preseason game against the Chargers. He referenced the still-unsigned Colin Kaepernick (of whom Bennett has said, “of course he’s being blackballed”), but Bennett said this weekend’s white supr...
Brave Lakers Rookie Lonzo Ball Offers Strong LeBron-Versus-Kobe Take
Here’s Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball offering a good and correct take on the great LeBron vs. Kobe debate of our time:...
Marshawn Lynch Sits Through National Anthem At Raiders Preseason Game
Marshawn Lynch of the Oakland Raiders sat through the pregame performance of the national anthem at last night’s preseason game against the Arizona Cardinals....
Idiots Hold Idiot Summit
This week, the public was treated to a rendition of one of Aesop’s lesser-known fables, The Troll, the Moron, and the Stooge. There was no real moral, just a reminder that a sizable portion of the internet consists of opportunists tugging on their own nuts and screeching when they feel they haven’t ...
The Braves' New Ballpark Is An Urban Planner's Nightmare
In 1965, voters from the five counties that still make up metro Atlanta—Cobb, Fulton, Gwinnett, Clayton and DeKalb—went to the ballot box to decide the future of the region’s public transportation system. The counties that voted “yes” would begin planning a regional rail system that would eventually...
MLS's Anti-Ambition Disease Is Now Infecting Mexicans
Back when MLS was primarily a retirement league where the geriatric greats of the good leagues in Europe could count on a fat check to jog circles around a collection of useless American never-wills until they got too bored and formally retired, the league was a sorry spectacle, to be sure, but most...
This Is The Giancarlo Stanton We Were Promised
Giancarlo Stanton hit his 38th home run of the season last night, an arcing 438-footer to the centerfield bleachers at Nationals Park. It marked his career-high home runs in a season, and there are another 50 games in the Marlins’ season....
Braves Rookie Johan Camargo Hurts Himself Running On Field, Pulled Before Game Starts
Running—it’s hard! That’s usually declared in the context of, say, completing a marathon or something, but it can also apply to jogging out onto the infield to take your position for a baseball game. Here is proof in the form of Braves rookie Johan Camargo, who was set to play shortstop tonight befo...
Why Your Team Sucks 2017: Carolina Panthers<em></em>
Some people are fans of the Carolina Panthers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Carolina Panthers. This 2017 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here....
Jay Cutler Is Joining The Miami Dolphins After All
A day after it was reported that Jay Cutler was leaning away from joining the Miami Dolphins, Cutler has now reportedly agreed to a one-year, $10 million contract to join the organization and replace injured starter Ryan Tannehill....