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This CM Punk thing is really happening, isn’t it?

There are a couple hard and fast rules in wrestling:...

|Thu Jul 29 2021

The Twins did this to themselves

As the Twins pick through the wreckage of their season, it’ll be easy to figure out where it all went wrong. Counting on Byron Buxton to stay upright more than seven minutes, and a bullpen that is the new music video for Prodigy’s “Firestarter.” (I realize both Prodigy and music videos as a whole ar...

by Sam Fels|

|Mon Jul 26 2021

Is Daniel Bryan going to AEW? Maybe! Maybe! Maybe!

Bodyslam.net says they have an exclusive, reporting that Daniel Bryan, whose real name is Bryan Danielson, is headed to AEW. Danielson had been with the WWE from 2009 through this past April. After being in the main event of WrestleMania 37 in a triple threat match including Edge for the WWE Univers...

by Jon Helmkamp|

|Thu Jul 22 2021

Seattle Kraken put on a great show, but will they win?

Tonight was the expansion draft, and yeah, I know like 80% of it was leaked online. Still. We saw Mt. Rainier, Pike’s Place Market with a thrown fish, the Space Needle, local sports icons, Macklemore, a whole lot of sea life, and everything about it felt incredibly, and perfectly, Seattle....

by Jon Helmkamp|

|Thu Jul 22 2021

<em>Space Jam 2</em> just sucks

So I saw Space Jam: A New Legacy over the weekend, and it’s just awful. Just an atrocious piece of cinema, and a blatant attempt to capture nostalgia money from fans of the original ‘90s film starring Michael Jordan. I wanted to wait until today to write anything about it though in order to get the ...

by Jon Hoefling|

|Tue Jul 20 2021

Anti-boinking measures at Olympics officially surpass gold medal-level stupidity

Sex in the Olympic Village is a talking point at every Games, as if somehow it’s surprising that a bunch of young, hot, athletic people from all over the world have a habit of getting it on with members of the tiny subset of people who they can connect with over their very interesting and unique exp...

by Jesse Spector|

|Sat Jul 17 2021

The WWE is going to be at … Rolling Loud?!?

Did you grow up on Sweet Chin Music?...

by Jon Helmkamp|

|Thu Jul 08 2021

This week in The Ladies Room: Carron Phillips

Welcome to the Ladies Room - A Deadspin Sports Podcast....

by Julie DiCaro|

|Wed Jul 07 2021

Nonsensical criticism of USWNT soccer proves right-wing media should hush

It’s getting embarrassing at this point....

by Donovan Dooley|

|Tue Jul 06 2021

This week in The Ladies Room: Megan Rapinoe

Welcome to the Ladies Room - A Deadspin Sports Podcast....

by Julie DiCaro|

|Thu Jul 01 2021

Juneteenth is being hijacked from African-Americans

There’s nothing on Earth that gets stolen from more than Black culture. From our bodies being taken from Africa to every part of our identities being appropriated and fawned over, as infuriating as it may be, it makes sense that America would want to steal our joy, too. It’s why a white-ass team in ...

by Carron J. Phillips|

|Fri Jun 18 2021

Anti-vaxxer John Stockton downplays COVID in 'over-the-top' documentary

Former long-time Utah Jazz point guard and Hall of Famer John Stockton has appeared in an anti-vaccine documentary, saying things that you normally would say in an anti-vaccine documentary. ...

by Jon Helmkamp|

|Fri Jun 18 2021

The LA Bowl has a new sponsor, and it’s ‘not a joke’

Every year, companies get a chance to slap their brand on a college football bowl game. But late last night, Jimmy Kimmel announced that the new LA bowl will be named after himself....

by Dustin Foote|

|Thu Jun 17 2021