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Richard Sherman's 49ers Versus Russell Wilson's Seahawks Should Be A Hoot

If for no other reason than that he will face the Seattle Seahawks, and thus Russell Wilson, twice per regular season, this should be fun: Richard Sherman has reportedly joined the San Francisco 49ers:...

Let’s Revisit Richard Sherman’s Best And Loudest Moments With The Seahawks<em></em><em></em>

The Seahawks released cornerback Richard Sherman today after seven seasons with the team, ending an amazing run in Seattle for one of the most iconic defensive players of all time. Sherman was a three-time first-team All-Pro selection with the Seahawks, and he was a key part of the defense that utte...

How Egypt's Strongman Is Turning Sports Into Propaganda

Imagine, if you can, the USSF and new president Carlos Cordeiro, backed by a slew of MLS owners, calling a press conference and announcing their undying loyalty to Donald Trump, and urging all American soccer fans to vote Republican in the upcoming midterm elections. While the idea may seem fantasti...

Matt Forte May Have Retired

Cavs Open Investigation After Fan Pesters Patty Mills With Racist Taunts [Update]

Spurs point guard Patty Mills was shooting two free throws in the fourth quarter of Sunday’s game in Cleveland when TV cameras picked up a fan heckling from the stands. “Hey Jamaican dog, they want their bobsledder back!” the fan yelled. “Hey Mills, Jamaica just called, they want their bobsledder ba...

<i>Annihilation</i> Will Creep You All The Way Out

If you saw the trailer for Annihilation and got hyped to watch Natalie Portman spend the movie kicking ass with a machine gun, mowing down monsters while dispensing action-movie cliches, you won’t get what you want. If you read Jeff VanderMeer’s novel, on which the movie is based, and expected a fa...

Mariners Pitcher Rob Whalen On Dealing With Depression: "We Need To Change The Stigma That You're Fragile If You Talk About It"

Seattle Mariners pitcher Rob Whalen spoke at length about his struggle with depression—which caused him to temporarily step away from baseball last season—in an interview published today on MLB.com:...

Bryce Harper Forced Don Mattingly Into Clowning Himself

The Marlins are a cynical disaster of a franchise with no apparent interest in winning baseball games, and the obviousness of all that has put the actual members of the team in a tough spot. The players on the Marlins still have to go out and play 162 games and pretend like the reason for them takin...

Words Cannot Begin To Describe The Horror Of Fergie's All-Star Game National Anthem

Something insane and terrible happened before tonight’s NBA All-Star Game. No one will ever be able to explain it to my satisfaction. Even in the context of the NBA’s disastrous, shriekingly awkward pregame nightmare, Fergie’s national anthem was an absolute abomination. A goose being strangled in y...

Hank Aaron Sparked Pro Wrestling's First Major Racism Story 25 Years Ago<em></em>

25 years ago this week, the top story in pro wrestling was, in many ways, also the biggest pro wrestling story in the history of the business’s insider press....

Adrien Broner Arrested For Sexual Battery At Atlanta Mall

Adrien Broner, who is both troubled and very much a dick, was arrested for sexual battery in an Atlanta shopping mall on Monday. TMZ first reported the news, and jail records show that Broner was booked at Fulton County Jail today....

Curling Fans Want You To Know Curling Isn't As Easy As It Looks

PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — It’s about 36 hours before the Opening Ceremony and in a stadium in the coastal city of Gangneung, there’s a packed house for the first event of the 2018 Olympics: mixed doubles curling. I assumed everyone in attendance would be there to extrapolate geopolitical tensions f...

Yankees Trade For Some Scrub Prospect

The New York Yankees acquired Texas Rangers prospect Russell Wilson for “future considerations” today. Wilson has long wanted to be a Yankee, per ESPN, and the two organizations got the trade done to accommodate Wilson’s wishes. ...

Mixed Doubles Is Curling's Breezier, Equally Fun Version, And It Starts Tonight

Get jazzed: Curling will soon be on TV again in large amounts, the way the snow sports deities intended. For the 2018 Winter Olympics, there’s even more curling—not just because it’s great, but because a new variant has been added to the program, airing before the traditional four-person team curlin...

American Defender Matt Miazga Fined For Honking Opponent's Dick

Not long ago, exciting young American center back Matt Miazga was out in England effectively ending the Chelsea careers of legendary players John Terry and Radamel Falcao. The defender is now in the Netherlands honing his craft with Vitesse on loan from Chelsea, and he’s still threatening to end car...

Allegedly Enormous-Donged Eagles QB Leads Team To Super Bowl Victory

The Philadelphia Eagles are Super Bowl champions after defeating the New England Patriots 41-33 Sunday, and they couldn’t have done it without the stellar performance from backup quarterback Nick Foles and his reportedly gigantic hog....

What Time Does 'What Time Does The Super Bowl Start?' Start?

Time is a social construct cooked up by humankind to impose some modicum of order onto an otherwise chaotic existence. But with that said, Super Bowl 52 will kick off this weekend. At some point. Who will win “the big game”? That’s not for me to say. What time does it start? Now there’s a good quest...

Edgar Martínez Is A Hall-Of-Fame Baseball Player

Many of the conceptual arguments around the Baseball Hall of Fame aren’t really about baseball. Debates about players who used steroids are about justice or punishment or cheating. Debates about the character clause are about the separation between the sport and the people who play it. Debates about...

Cordarrelle Patterson On Jon Gruden, Trash Talk, And Surviving The Bleak Minnesota Winter

Oakland Raiders wide receiver Cordarrelle Patterson recently swung through New York City. While he was in town, Deadspin sat him in front of a camera to ask him a bunch of stuff....

Bill Simmons Is A Fucking Embarrassment<em></em>

Look man, I know Ley already posted about it earlier but for real, get a fucking load of this Bill Simmons column that dropped today. It’s a fucking disgrace. There have been so many awful Bill Simmons takes throughout history, including this one, this one, and this one. You could make a Hall of Fa...