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A Second Wave Of Coronavirus Is Inevitable. Do Sports Leagues Even Care?
There’s a small engraving on the Stanley Cup which reads, “1919 - Montreal Canadians - Seattle Metropolitans - Series Not Completed.”...
With Baseball’s Sharpest Coronavirus Takes, Sean Doolittle Goes A Long Way
The idea that Sean Doolittle wouldn’t want to play baseball is one of the most ridiculous notions that anyone could come up with, and completely ignorant of the path the Washington Nationals reliever took in his career....
The AHL Has Canceled The Remainder Of Its Season, Some Players Remain in Limbo
Minor League Hockey is not an essential business....
Would A Labor Battle Sink MLB’s Return?
While MLB certainly has a lot of obstacles to jump over, under, and through to start the 2020 season due to the coronavirus pandemic, it would certainly be on brand for them to not even get there because the owners felt like picking another fight with the players. They seem intent, but the brewing a...
COVID-19 Reveals Tennis Class War Bubbling To The Surface
You’ll never believe this, but there’s classism present in professional tennis. Who could have ever guessed? It appears some players look longingly at Major League Baseball, and aim to bus-toss those players outside the very highest echelon of the sport for their own good. And as it always seems to ...
Our Solution To NBA Restart? Let Playoff Teams Draft Players From Lottery Teams... We Did Two Rounds
When the NBA gets back on the court, it’s likely to be just for a made-for-TV playoff tournament. That leaves several big stars on the sidelines. At the same time, there’s a chance that a long layoff will lead to injuries among teams who do continue their 2020 campaigns, as well as the chance that p...
As Athletics Budgets Plunge, Who's Fighting For Women's Sports On Campus?
When evaluating the college athletic departments that might be leaving programs in the dust or with a slashed budget, Title IX will be a huge factor in their decision....
AEW Loses Some Of The High Ground
Admittedly, the term “high ground” would rarely find a working relationship with pro wrestling. The point of the whole enterprise, or at least a good portion of it, is that it’s not the high ground. It’s supposed to be ridiculous, silly, edgy, and not cause your brain to breathe all that hard if you...
These Amoral Lizard-People Have Reached A New Low: $25 Face Coverings That Don’t Work
Imagine surveying the world as it is today — a horrifying place, pervaded by joblessness, pestilence, and uncertainty — then having the audacity to wonder:...
Scott Boras And His Normalcy Can Both Get The Hell Out Of Here
The melding of one person and one institution each so galactically up their own asses to have quite possibly come around again that is Scott Boras penning an op-ed in The New York Times is so perfect I might vomit up my own scrotum. I can’t believe it didn’t happen until now, honestly....
What Could Have Been: A Look At The Baseball Drama That We Missed Because of Coronavirus
Last we saw Major League Baseball, Jake Arrieta picked up a victory, the Tigers blew another game in late innings, and a pair of second-generation studs with the familiar last names of Guerrero and Bichette went yard again for Toronto....
Isolated Queens Blitz Their Way Into The Twitch Spotlight
If there’s one sport that might benefit from everyone being trapped at home, it’s chess....
Sports News Used To Be An Escapist Haven. Now It's A Frustrating, Incoherent Mess Like The Rest Of The World
If it feels difficult to figure out what’s going on in the fight against coronavirus right now, that’s because it is difficult. As May begins, an already chaotic and confusing time has ratcheted into something even more fiercely inscrutable....
Talking To Mark Gubicza About Pandemic Mullets, ’80s Metal, And Mike Trout
One of the weirdest complaints about life under quarantine is not being able to cut your hair. This actually came up in a Deadspin staff meeting: If there was one business you could bring back safely, what would it be?...
Imagine An Entire Super Bowl Crowd Dying. Jared Kushner Calls That 'A Great Success'
It’s easy to make jokes at Jared Kushner’s expense, and he truly deserves every last bit of mockery he gets. You also don’t have to look far to find clever takedowns of a man who has spent his entire life failing upward, including multiple plum White House assignments owing to the fact that he’s mar...
Trump’s Head Explodes As Fauci Says Sports ‘May Have To Skip A Year’
On Tuesday, Dr. Anthony Fauci spoke to the New York Times about sports and the global pandemic....
Steve Dalkowski, Inspiration for Nuke LaLoosh of ‘Bull Durham,’ Dead At 80 Due to COVID-19
Steve Dalkowski, a towering figure in minor-league lore whose legendary arm strength was matched only by his lack of command, died earlier this week, his family announced. He was 80....
Recruiting During A Pandemic Sucks
How do you recruit during a global pandemic?...
One Neutral Site Won’t Work For The NHL, But For Some Reason, Four Might?
Time for our routine check-in of the batshit ideas leagues are kicking around to finish their seasons and playoffs. They vary as to level of batshittiness (battyshit?), and the NHL is apparently lessening the level of theirs at the moment. Only barely, though....