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Cleveland Police Union Will Protest Anthem Protests, Via Anthem Protest
Cleveland’s police union will refuse to participate in the raising of the flag during the national anthem ceremony at the Browns home opener, to protest Browns players kneeling during the national anthem....
Denver NFL Beat Guy Caught On Twitter Dictating The Flow Of Information
Mike Klis of 9News tweeted a little while ago that the Broncos are expected to kick the tires on bad NFL quarterback and former salary dump Brock Osweiler. What he tweeted next—and immediately deleted—sure as hell looked like instructions to stiff-arm his competition:...
Report: Browns Give Up On Brock Osweiler Experiment
At the beginning of the NFL offseason, the Cleveland Browns acquired a second-round pick from the Texans in exchange for taking on bad QB Brock Osweiler and his $16 million salary. Cleveland drafted Notre Dame QB DeShone Kizer in the second round of the NFL Draft, although the thinking was that they...
Keon Broxton Saved The Game With This Catch
The Brewers salvaged a series split with the Cardinals, and crawled back to within three games of a wild card spot, and they have Keon Broxton to thank. The outfielder made a leaping catch at the wall in dead center to save what might’ve been a go-ahead two-run home run and seal a 6-5 win....
Joe Haden No Longer Fit In With The Browns' Future
The Cleveland Browns had already signaled their readiness to move on from cornerback Joe Haden earlier this week, when word got out that they were shopping him around. Once those trade avenues eventually led to nowhere, the Browns decided today to cut him. From a distance, the move is jarring, even ...
Keith Wenning?
Tyrod Taylor and T.J. Yates, the Buffalo Bills’ starting and backup quarterbacks, are both concussed. This sounds like a job for...hold on, let me flip this card over—Keith Wenning....
The Blockbuster Kyrie Irving Trade May Not Be Complete After All
Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN broke the news last night that the Cavaliers are “considering possible ramifications” after putting Isaiah Thomas through a physical after he was acquired from the Celtics in the Kyrie Irving trade....
The Coen Brothers At Work
Originally titled “The Joel & Ethan Story,” this piece first appeared in the October 1989 issue of Premiere and appears here with the author’s permission....
Why Your Team Sucks 2017: Denver Broncos<em></em>
Some people are fans of the Denver Broncos. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Denver Broncos. This 2017 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here....
Here's Something Cute
It’s going to be one of those days (it’s only ever those days these days), so here’s something unexpected. You know how when a player leaves a team, either via free agency or by forcing a trade, fans flock to Twitter to film themselves burning said player’s jersey? Here’s one Cavs fan’s reaction to ...
Welp, ESPN Shot Itself In The Dick
By now you’ve seen the news and shaken your damn head over the idiocy: ESPN switched broadcaster Robert Lee (this guy) off of calling the University of Virginia’s home opener, because the violent white supremacy rally in Charlottesville earlier this month was spurred by threats to remove a statue of...
Ohio Supreme Court Justice Goes Off On "Draft Dodging" Browns Players
Last night, a group of Cleveland Browns players knelt in a circle during the national anthem and held a group prayer in solidarity with Michael Bennett, Marshawn Lynch, and other NFL players who have staged similar protests to call attention to the racial inequality that is plaguing the United State...
Hot Damn, Eastern Michigan Is Fun Now
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, ...
Seth DeValve Is The First White Player To Kneel For The National Anthem
Last week, Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett issued a call to action to white players on national anthem protests: “It would take a white player to really get things changed, because when somebody from the other side understands and they step up and they speak up about it... it would change the...
Frank Broyles Brought Arkansas To The Big Time<em></em>
On the heels of Frank Broyles’s first most significant moment of his career, he got foreshadowing of the second, still a quarter of a century away. It was the winter of 1965, and Broyles had just coached Arkansas to an 11-0 record and a national football championship as chosen by the Football Writer...
LeBron James Labels Donald Trump "So-Called President" In Comments On Charlottesville
LeBron James used some of his time on stage tonight at an event for his charitable foundation to speak about the weekend’s events in Charlottesville, Va., where a white nationalist rally became a domestic terrorist attack. James noted the need for a greater sense of love and community, emphasizing t...
Brave Lakers Rookie Lonzo Ball Offers Strong LeBron-Versus-Kobe Take
Here’s Lakers rookie Lonzo Ball offering a good and correct take on the great LeBron vs. Kobe debate of our time:...
England's Worst, Most Snooze-Worthy Teams: Our 2017-18 Premier League Preview, Pt. 1
Some watch the Premier League for the artistry and high-level play that only megastars like Alexis Sánchez and Eden Hazard can provide. Others watch for the drama of stressed-out, egomaniacal coaches yelling at everyone—at each other, at the referees, at God, at the sport itself, at their players, a...
Brooks Koepka Tee Shot Bloodies Course Marshal
The PGA Championship begins today, and it will be a memorable one for one course marshal. A tee shot on the 16th from Brooks Koepka, the reigning U.S. Open champion, went into the gallery and hit a course marshal. Video feeds saw the man on the ground and bloodied....
The Browns Really Want You To Buy This Whole Brock Osweiler Thing
Please remember that the only reason Brock Osweiler is currently on the Browns’ roster is because the Texans were so desperate to be rid of him that they gave Cleveland a second-round pick for absorbing Osweiler’s $16 million salary this season. Also remember that Browns GM Sashi Brown was most exci...