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Stop the Patrick Mahomes shoo-in talk for MVP - he's come up empty the last two seasons
The time has come to pump the brakes on Patrick Mahomes....

Seahawks defense makes Rams look futile, Dallas can steal booboo division, and Packers could dethrone Chiefs
The end of the NFL season is next week, which means that playoff spots are on the line....

James Harden might not need cheesesteaks
I don’t want to be hard on James Harden. We all ... look different after this year. Cooped up in our house, downing comfort foods more often than we have in the five years previous combined. For me, it’s peanut butter M&Ms. You have yours. Something you run to when it all gets too much, which it doe...

Colts run through Raiders like beef stroganoff, Chiefs keep sleepwalking to victory, and Steelers look like they are going to New Era Pinstripe Bowl
The NFL seemed to get full control over its COVID situation in Week 14, after a week that saw players literally being pulled out of pregame warmups because of positive tests....

Xavien Howard snags one-handed INT from Ozone Layer against Mahomes
The Dolphins’ Xavien Howard just gave us one of the most spectacular defensive plays of the season....

NBA City Edition jerseys run gamut from inspired imagery to font flops
The NBA City Edition uniforms for the 2020-21 season are all out, and you’ve got to give it up to the NBA for coming up with a way to introduce new alternate jerseys for every team, every year, and making it a point of interest rather than an extremely blatant cash grab. A lot of that has to do with...

Russell Westbrook to Wizards, John Wall to Rockets in seismic shake-up for NBA
Russell Westbrook and John Wall will each have a new NBA home this season....

Which 2-0 NFL teams were frauds? An investigation revisited
Every year, we overreact to 2-0 teams. And every year, a hot team in September cools off by December....

Comparing Mahomes and Brady has become disrespectful to the Chiefs QB, stop it
Don’t let the final score fool you. This game was never in doubt for Kansas City....

Can someone, anyone, guard Tyreek Hill?
Tampa Bay is trying, they really are....

Patrick Mahomes' ketchup obsession has become a disgrace to common decency — says he’ll put it on his turkey
I think it’s time that we have an intervention for Patrick Mahomes....

Jim Nantz wants CBS to pay him like someone with a personality
In some ways you can’t begrudge Jim Nantz for asking for the bag. He probably looks to his right most Sundays, sees the Jerry Lewis soundboard that is Tony Romo, and figures A) Just by having to sit next to that overrated, handsome gas bag for four hours a week is worth $17 million a year. And B) If...

When did Manchester City get so boring?
Every story about the Premier League, and really European soccer as a whole, has to start off with just how weird the circumstances are. The shortened preseason, the glut of matches in a reduced window of time, the injuries, the positive tests, no crowds, all of it has combined for some truly goofy ...

Sunday Scaries: The Week 11 bets to avoid
I regret to inform you that the Jacksonville Jaguars did not make the cut for this week’s Sunday Scaries. Of course they’re not winning games, but they’re covering. So they seem… reliable?...

Orlando emergency keeper's game-winning save is soccer's 'position player pitches perfect inning'
Rodrigo Schlegel is a defender for Orlando City SC … and now the most legendary goalie in franchise history....

Deadspin Fixes the Royals: Helping Kansas City help itself
Five years ago, the Kansas City Royals were world champions. It was not a fluke or an accident, but the payoff for implementing a strategy that allowed them to compete despite not having the resources of the Yankees and Red Sox of the world....

Easily, Lamar Jackson’s feat is better than Patrick Mahomes’
Two of the best and brightest quarterbacks in the NFL made news on Sunday....

Liverpool and Manchester City play the best game of the year… for 60 minutes
There’s still a perception of Jurgen Klopp that he employs “heavy metal” football, and that before and after the game and during halftime he retreats to his office to blast “Killed By Death” for inspiration. Add in the destruction that Liverpool’s frontline of Mo Salah, Sadio Mane, and Roberto Firmi...

