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Booger McFarland was loud, and wrong, about young Black NFL players
Blaming the many for the mistakes of the few is never a good look....
Would anyone like to win the NFC East?
When you see a car wreck on the side of the road, you look. You may not like that you look, but you do it anyway....
Remembering 'Bowl Durham' & Pearl Harbor: Last time Rose Bowl was held outside Pasadena
Back in March, the NCAA Tournament was just days away from tipping off when COVID-19 took hold in America and turned 2020 upside down, taking with it, among other things, college basketball’s championship....
A new COVID-19 strand could be on the way as college football is determined to play meaningless bowl games
This is the part where you laugh to keep from crying. Because despite the internal struggle, it has been for many of us to enjoy sports during these times, there comes a point where you just have to throw up your hands and wave the white flag....
2020 Idiot of the Year Awards: Counting down from 50-41 with Ronaldo, Bolt, Cespedes, and more
UPDATE: We have compiled all 50 items into one handy list, for your reading convenience. It is available here....
Rose Bowl to be played in ... Dallas
The story of college football in 2020 has been knowing the right thing to do, and completely buckling to do the most idiotic things possible....
Guess Brian Kelly and Notre Dame won't have to worry about boycotting the Rose Bowl
Brian Kelly threatened not to take Notre Dame to the Rose Bowl if players’ parents weren’t allowed to attend the College Football Playoff semifinal....
Brian Kelly and Dabo Swinney should be fired if their jobs are truly about leading and protecting young men
College football coaches love to talk about how their job is to be leaders who earn their astronomical paychecks not only by winning football games, but by molding their players into something better, to guide their growth from high school boys to upstanding men who have learned how to handle the wo...
This weekend is about Golovkin and Canelo fighting each other a third time
Matchroom Boxing promoter Eddie Hearn showed up to the press conference in a “Team ‘GGG’ Golovkin.” Gennadiy Golovkin seemed flattered....
Maybe the Knicks’ point guard of the future is already<em> </em>on their roster
Yes, it’s only preseason, but given last night’s glimpse, and the Knicks roster’s construction, it’s fair to wonder....
Packers, who gave more than $750K to police for body cameras, do not understand they don’t stop police from shooting Black people
In another edition of the NFL trying to do right, yet failing, the Green Bay Packers recently gave more than $750,000 to the city of Green Bay for police body cameras in response to the shooting of Jacob Blake in Kenosha, Wis., according to the Washington Post....
Not even a pandemic could stop the Scott Boras mangled-metaphor train from running on time
It’s become perhaps the most anticipated tradition of MLB’s Winter Meetings, if only because it’s been echoed so many times by a baseball press desperate for anyone to tell them anything. Long gone are the days of writers and GMs getting loaded in the hotel bar after every game, with the executive l...
MLB owners' concern over vaccine is really just them telling on themselves, for the 738th time
If it feels like MLB owners are always coming here for an argument, that’s pretty much because they always are. While the comatose-snail-slow free agent and trade market can be partially traced to the usual, contemporary miserliness of the cabal of 30 (though most certainly not collusion, no sir), a...
The NFL wants to target kids with a Nickelodeon broadcast, but they’ll get nostalgic adults instead
It’s no secret that the NFL wants a piece of the younger demographic. But SpongeBob graphics and slime won’t cut it....
Welcome to The Ladies Room, a new Deadspin Sports podcast ... this week, Real Sports' Mary Carillo wonders if there will be an Olympics in 2021?
Welcome to the Ladies Room - A Deadspin Sports Podcast....
Dan Bailey is a slide whistle and a sad trombone
You can set your watch to Minnesota sports. The Twins will never win a playoff game, the Timberwolves will see anyone with a name you can remember leave to accomplish anything, and no one will ever remember the Wild even exist, as everyone is more concerned with the Gophers anyway. And the Vikings w...
With Phillies on verge of hiring Dave Dombrowski as president, MLB recycles its old trash better than anyone
Dave Dombrowski is what is still wrong with Major League Baseball....
America thinks fans at the Super Bowl is a really stupid idea
Watching a football game during a pandemic is a bit like watching people smoke on the sidelines for three hours. No one on the field will die of lung cancer during the game, but, from a public health standpoint, it’s not good....
Chicago gives Cubs pandemic tax reprieve — residents get tax hike, thumb in eye
There’s seemingly a parade of stories about how the only people not getting utterly fucked during this pandemic are the ones who never get utterly fucked. If you feel like you see something like Tom Brady’s boat purchased with money meant for small businesses, it’s because you do. And if there’s a g...
The Dez Bryant pregame meet-and-greet the Ravens don't want you to see
By now, you know that Dez Bryant tested positive for COVID-19 just minutes before last night’s game....