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Ex-Notre Dame Football Player Says School Hid MRI Results From Him, Which Led To A Chronic Spinal Injury
Last Friday, former Notre Dame linebacker Douglas Randolph filed a lawsuit against Notre Dame, Brian Kelly, head Notre Dame football trainer Rob Hunt, and a handful of doctors, alleging that the Notre Dame football and training staff deliberately concealed a serious spinal injury from him, which he ...
Father And Son Alabama Fans Arrested After Brawling At FSU Game
During this weekend’s Alabama-Florida State game, a pair of rowdy Alabama fans got into a nasty-looking fight in the stands of the Falcons stadium. Officers responded to reports of a fight in the 120/121 section of the stadium at around 11 p.m. local time. According to an incident report obtained by...
NFL Concludes Useless Probe Into Whether Tom Brady Had Concussions
In May, supermodel Gisele Bündchen said in an interview that her husband, Patriots quarterback Tom Brady, “does have concussions.” This spurred a joint investigation by the NFL and NFLPA, which has unsurprisingly come to the conclusion that Tom Brady is just fine....
<i>NYT</i> Op-Ed: The Real Villains Are Those Who Doubt The Motives Of Anonymous NFL Executives
If there was one thing the ongoing Colin Kaepernick unemployment saga really needed, it was a flaccid, incomprehensibly contrarian op-ed in the dear old New York Times. Boy does this one, from Colin Fleming, not disappoint:...
The World Needs Lil B To Curse Lonzo Ball And The Lakers
The Ball family, of Big Baller Brand shoes and the Lakers’ point-guard-of-the-future role, have a new Facebook reality show called Ball in the Family. I had no idea the Ball family ever did not have a Facebook reality show, but here we are....
It's Time To Spend A Few Weeks Telling Yourself You Like Fall<em></em>
The air is crisp and cool, the sky streaked with low, scuttling, ragged clouds, heading out of town in a hurry, like seasonal tourists. In quiet moments you can hear a crow. Somewhere in your immediate surroundings, should you care to look for it, is a spiderweb. They’re everywhere right now, spider...
ESPN College Football Analyst Quits Over Concerns For Player Safety
Former NFL player Ed Cunningham has been working as a college football analyst since 1997, and was set to begin another season for ESPN and ABC. Today, Cunningham told the New York Times that he is walking away from his job because he can no longer condone the game’s health risks....
Accept Wisconsin's Greatness
Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...
Here Is Another Incredibly Sad Attempt At Arena Financing Grift
The New Orleans Pelicans will launch a developmental-league team before the start of the 2018-19 season, but first, they have to decide where it’ll go. Five cities were initially vying for the right to join the NBA’s minor league (which recently rebranded to serve as an advertisement for a sports dr...
How Not To React When Your Team Gives Up A Goal
Everton hosted Croatian side Hajduk Split for a Europa League qualifier this afternoon, which meant that hundreds of Hajduk fans traveled to Liverpool for the game. They appeared to be ready to get rowdy before the match, and they delivered once things started. Everton’s Michael Keane (no apparent r...
Super Bowl-Winning QB Jim Plunkett: "My Life Sucks ... Everything Hurts"
Jim Plunkett won a pair of Super Bowls with the Raiders in the 1980s, taking home the MVP award at Super Bowl XV. He played 15 years in the league, won the Heisman Trophy at Stanford, and is the only eligible two-time Super Bowl winning quarterback not in the Pro Football Hall of Fame....
Michael Jordan Has Bad Kobe-Versus-LeBron Take
Meme face and one-time basketball man Michael Jordan addressed youngsters at his 2017 Flight School basketball camp, offering the obviously wrong and bad opinion that Kobe Bryant ranks ahead of LeBron James as an all-timer:...
Midwestern Guy Wants You To Doubt Adrian Beltre Because He's Dominican
Fox Sports guy Doug Gottlieb has a big wet blanket for anyone excited about Adrian Beltre’s 3000th hit: Did you know that Beltre is Dominican??? Fucked up, but true....
Jets Fans Cheer Rookie Who Says He'd Prefer To Die On The Field
The Jets held a forum at training camp today in which a group of about 150 fans got to ask questions of players. Things got a little uneasy when the topic turned to head trauma, and safety Jamal Adams, the Jets’ first-round pick this year, said if he had to pick a place to die it would be on a footb...
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Diamondbacks Pitcher Robbie Ray Takes 108-MPH Line Drive To The Head [Update]
Cardinals first baseman Luke Voit sent a fastball from Diamondbacks pitcher Robbie Ray directly back where it came from in the second inning of tonight’s game. Voit’s line drive (measured at 108 miles per hour) zipped straight at Ray’s dome, sending him sprawling to the dirt. His teammates and Voit ...
Report: NFL To Walk Away From Deal To Fund Concussion Research With $16 Million Unpaid
The NFL has given the National Institutes of Health less than half of the $30 million they promised for concussion research five years ago, and after repeatedly trying to influence how their “unrestricted gift” was used, the league is letting their agreement expire with no plans to finish paying up....
Congress Calls Out NFL For Still Owing $18 Million To NIH For Concussion Research<em></em><em></em>
With little more than a month remaining in a five-year agreement to pay for concussion research, the NFL still owes the National Institutes of Health $18 million—more than half of the $30 million that the league agreed to provide for the study back in 2012. Today, a group of Democratic members of th...
Defensive Back David Bruton Retires "To Have My Brain Functioning When I Get A Little Older"
After sustaining six concussions over eight years in the NFL, David Bruton announced his retirement to the Denver Post today. ...
Man With Nazi Tattoos Attends Indians Game
During yesterday’s Blue Jays-Indians game, a man who was at the game tweeted pictures of a shirtless fan who had prominent swastika tattoos on his back....
What Is The Most Mentally Grueling Sport, And Why Is It Not Tennis?<em></em>
Last week our own Laura Wagner declared tennis to be the most mentally grueling of all sports, which greatly incensed the rest of us on staff who have borne witness to professional tennis players being tended to by an army of small child servants during matches. So what IS the most mentally grueling...