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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....
MLB knows what it wants to do with the DH, it just doesn’t want to pay for it
Now that the baseball Winter Meetings have begun, such as they are in this altered pandemic-form, some real moves are being made. Lance Lynn and Adam Eaton have joined the White Sox either via trade or signing, Carlos Santana has got on the Royals express to 72 wins, and rumors are flying after the ...
You’ll say you were there when the NHLPA finally owned the owners
Every so often, a blind squirrel finds a nut. And there’s been no blinder squirrel than the NHL players’ union over the years. This is a side that got locked out for an entire season and still got a salary cap with no exceptions enforced on it. Eight years later it got locked out again and got an ev...
Claressa Shields has an unrelenting desire to prove all of you wrong
Claressa Shields was getting her hair done when we spoke. Not because she was celebrating the holidays. She was preparing for war....
Week 13 Powerless Rankings: Wading through the NFL’s putrid muck
It’s time once again to highlight the teams stinking up the joint every single week....
Mayweather vs. Paul won’t ruin boxing, but it will further dilute the art of the sport
Fourteen months removed from being thrown out of his Ferrari in a near-death experience, Errol Spence rebounded to outclass Danny Garcia Saturday evening in Dallas. The bout left many calling for Spence to defend his WBC and IBF Welterweight Championships against WBO Welterweight Champion and arguab...
Logan Paul vs. Floyd Mayweather is on, for some reason
Logan Paul just agreed to a date to get Nate Robinson’d....
Jarome Iginla is just a regular guy giving his thoughts on the weather
About 15 years ago, I was riding on the 1 train in Manhattan with two friends, and when we got off the train, one of them asked me if I had peeked over John Turturro’s shoulder and gotten a look at the script he was reading....
The long, strange path of Brandon Graham, quietly one of the best players in Eagles history
It wasn’t quite Eagles fans booing Donovan McNabb at the podium for the crime of not being Rickey Williams at the 1999 draft, but no one was happy with the Eagles’ first selection in the 2010 Draft, either....
Bob Arum: Deontay Wilder has said ‘Trumpian things’ and doesn’t have a right to third Tyson Fury bout
It’s been a weird fall season for Deontay Wilder....
Masseuse only one to be punished (with $31,000 fine) for doing what Bob Kraft asked and paid for
It’s long been a pillar of American society that there’s only justice for the rich, and everyone below the 1 percent will ultimately pay for their indiscretions and pleasures. Bob Kraft’s afternoon out at a Florida massage parlor is just a minor study in that, but puts it in clear relief. ...
