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NBA needs a shortened season now to get back on track
Late Thursday, NBA players are supposed to vote on a schedule and format for the upcoming season....
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Nyheim Hines’ badass spin move for TD isn’t even the most impressive part [UPDATED]
Update - HE DID IT AGAIN:...
Deadspin Presents: Top 10 presidential endorsements from sports stars, Part II: Biden backers
It’s rare for athletes to openly advocate for a change in leadership in their day-to-day lives, because it usually means getting branded as a “coach killer,” or an excuse-maker. But when it comes to politics, it’s different. There’s the choice of either the person in charge, or the person running to...
Sue Bird & Megan Rapinoe's engagement is just what we needed
This has been a long, exhausting, Zamboni fire of a year. And a month, for that matter. And a week....
Baseball’s winter of cost-savings discontent begins as cheapskate Cards cut Wong
It used to be the hot stove, and fans used to get excited about it right after the last out of the World Series. A ray of hope, provided by the wishful thinking that it could be your team ending the season on a podium with Rob Manfred as he gets booed next year. But in a preview of what’s to come ar...
Let’s call it what it was: Another epic Dodgers’ October choke job
ARLINGTON, Texas — Epic, indeed....
Deadspin NFL Over/Under Bet of the Week: Bearing down on this under
Over/Under: 45...
Remember way back in 2019 when Myles Garrett swinging a helmet was the biggest story in the world?
It’s been almost a year since Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett ripped off the helmet of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph and began to clobber him with it into the turf. Garrett, Steelers Maurkice Pouncey, and Browns David DeCastro were all ejected....
Like a Rorschach test, you can see whatever you want in the art of Dodgers collapses
For the past five years or so, the Dodgers have carried just about the same narrative. Or the same narratives, and eventually it’ll probably reach the same level of undying debate that LeBron v. Michael has. Either Clayton Kershaw is a playoff mess, or Dave Roberts constantly has a stiff breeze whis...
Kelly Loeffler’s endorsement from QAnon supporter shows how far America has fallen
In a different America, Kelly Loeffler and her financial transactions — that sure as hell look like she was trading on privileged information — would be the political scandal of the year, if not the decade....
Sunday Scaries: The Week 5 bets you should avoid
Welcome to another installment of the Sunday Scaries where NFL Sundays are becoming, fittingly, scarier....
Everybody hates Aroldis (correct!) but thinks they hate the Astros vs. the Rays now, and ... that's bad
Schadenfreude in sports is strong. When it’s coupled with revenge, it’s beautiful....
European soccer isn’t clear of Coronavirus either
It was likely that at some point last spring or over the summer, all the North American sports that were so desperate to return looked at European’s soccer reemergence in May and June, and figured if they could do it, we should too. Of course, everyone on this side of the Atlantic ignored the ways i...
The Phillies should have taken the left at Albuquerque
The selling point of a major overhaul/rebuild in baseball, at least the way you bill it to fans, is that for a few years of abject play and unadorned summers you will be rewarded with years and years of contention and a spin at the playoff wheel that might land on “World Series Champion” every seaso...
Sunday Scaries: After going 4-0 last week, here are my Week 3 bets you should avoid
These Sundays are not scaring me yet....
Steven Stamkos gets his Willis Reed moment
The “Willis Reed Game” has grown in proportion as an epic through the decades, as these things tend to do as the years tick off. By this point, it wouldn’t be a surprise if a lot of younger fans assume that Willis Reed hobbled out of the Knicks locker room missing a leg, hopped around for 65 points,...
Jalen Rose's Breonna Taylor shout-out takes ESPN to commercial break
Sorry ESPN, Jalen Rose ain’t sticking to hoops....
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. ...
Sunday Scaries: The NFL Week 2 Bets You Should Avoid
Gambling is a risk. And with risk comes reward… or bankruptcy. ...
This is What Happens When You Piss Off LeBron
Earlier this summer, “The Last Dance” gave the world a look at how Michael Jordan used every slight, real or perceived, as motivation....