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Dak Prescott is not special
Well, at least, Dak Prescott is consistent. The Dallas Cowboys quarterback can’t beat the NFL’s good teams....
Time to Take Lions Coach Matt Patricia and GM Bob Quinn to the Detroit Dump
It’s Trash Talkin’ Tuesday and today, I’m trashing the Detroit Lions....
Atlanta Deserves These Falcons and Their Latest Choke Job for the Ages
The Atlanta Falcons stink....
Falcons Fold Like Cheap Lawn Chairs, Eagles Booed By Empty Stadium, TikTok Dad Russell Wilson Goes for MVP
Week 2 of the NFL season is nearly complete and it has left us with some must-see plays from some of the biggest names in the league....
If It’s Normalcy You Seek, Then a Jackass in Fenway Is What You Need
If you had to wager which stadium would see a fan quite possibly risk his life, merely for the opportunity to yell at everyone around and act like a yahoo to an audience of no one, Fenway Park most definitely would have been the chalk....
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Everyone Is Getting Hurt (Including Saquon Barkley, With Torn ACL) [Updated Some More]
Update (4:00 PM Eastern) - CBS has confirmed Saquon Barkley’s injury as an ACL tear. The team says he will be further evaluated tomorrow in New York, but this is very, very bad for the Giants....
Project ShaqBox: The Other Torre from the Famous High School Class of James Madison, Brooklyn, 1950
Welcome back to Project ShaqBox, where you can get 10 baseball cards in the mail, free, just by letting us know where to send them, and can get 10 cards from the team of your choice by making a donation to charity....
Dallas Is Mediocre, Tom Brady Is Old, and the Eagles Are Folding: Our Sunday Takeaways
The NFL season is here....
Fans Being Racist Is Nothing New
For as long as we can remember, sports fans have been on the wrong side of history....
Die In A Fire, Skip Bayless
The thing is, I know I’m giving Skip Bayless exactly what he wants by writing this. By even considering writing it. Bayless doesn’t exist to be right or wrong. He’s just there to emit. He’s a smokestack. That’s all. Bayless has made his career by making everything an argument. It doesn’t matter if i...
The Deadspin 2020 NFL Previews, NFC East: Can Anyone Break Up This Two-Horse Town?
There was a time not too long ago when the NFC East was considered one of the most competitive divisions in football. Over the past decade, the division has had two Super Bowl winners (Eagles, Giants), exciting Washington teams and the Dallas Cowboys. But the days of parity in the NFC East are over....
Project ShaqBox Remembers Tom Seaver
I don’t know if I ever saw Tom Seaver pitch live. His last season was when I was 5, so it’s possible that at some point my parents did take me to a game where Seaver was on the mound, but if that happened, I don’t remember it....
Ex-Athlete U.S. Senators Tell Deadspin: College Bill of Rights Upends NCAA’s Imbalance of Power
When Senator Ron Wyden played basketball at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he got paid — just not on the court. ...
All This Cowboys Hype is Ridiculous... Again
Today, I’m trashing owner Jerry Jones and his Dallas Cowboys....
Chadwick Boseman, Actor Who Played Jackie Robinson in '42,' Dies at 43
Even after all that 2020 has taken from us, the loss of Chadwick Boseman seems unbearable....
What’s Next? Athletes Are Faced With That Critical Question After Unprecedented Day in Sports
After a critical mass of protests across the professional sports world in response to the shooting of Jacob Blake, a black man, by a white police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, the most pressing and powerful question that remains is represented in only two words....
The NHL Stays On-Brand, Ignores Racial Justice Movement
As the sports world ground to a halt yesterday amid a growing movement to protest racial injustice, the NHL did the most NHL thing ever and offered a tepid, half-ass response before the Bruins-Lightning game in Toronto on Wednesday night. ...
Kyrie Irving Tried to Save the NBA From This Moment, but Nobody Wanted to Listen
Some people want to be right, while others need to be heard....
Usain Bolt Attends Maskless Surprise Birthday Party, Unsurprisingly Gets COVID
Surprise! Usain Bolt has coronavirus....
We Rank the Worst No. 1 Picks in NBA Lottery History
Since the NBA’s first draft lottery in 1985, there have been 11 first-overall picks who did not make an All-NBA team or appear in an All-Star Game. That number is a little inflated because Zion Williamson and DeAndre Ayton are just getting started, so when you’re trying to figure out which is the wo...