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Daily Fantasy Yah’s & Nah’s: What do we do with Jayson Tatum, Tyler Herro, and RJ Barrett?
Massive slate of NBA games today to choose from as we continue to try making a dollar out of 15 cents all season long. We’re all ultimately guessing, right? Let’s begin in Denver....
Idiot of the Year #8: Rob Manfred, the man who sold the world
Welcome to Deadspin’s farewell-to-2020 IDIOT OF THE YEAR awards! If you have made it this far, then congratulations, brave traveler....
Tampa Bay doesn’t deserve to have an MLB team
Let’s call it Exhibit A....
Blake Snell headed to team actively trying to win, for a change
Game 6 of the World Series saw a former Cy Young-winning pitcher get yanked after 5 ⅓ shutout innings, after logging nine strikeouts, and after giving up only two hits on only 73 pitches. That pitcher was Blake Snell, whose visible fury when getting pulled from the game was easily palpable. Two mont...
‘Mask Madness’ is NCAA’s latest reminder of just how greedy and awful it is
In case you forgot. In the event you needed a reminder. The NCAA will stop at nothing to capitalize on the sacred American dollar during a worldwide pandemic that is even tearing through its own organization....
Join us as we bestow our FANTASY FOOTBALL SUPERLATIVES on 2020’s most surprising and disappointing players
Fantasy Football is done. It’s finished. The 16-week sprint to glory has concluded, and with it, I hope you were able to bring home some championships and bragging rights. After all, it just isn’t fantasy football if you can’t brag about it for the next eight months until we start again....
Week 16 Powerless Rankings: Behold this utter trash heap
It’s time once again to highlight the teams stinking up the joint every single week....
This season, we'll find out just how good Steph Curry really is
For the majority of Steph Curry’s NBA career, he’s been treated unfairly....
NBA Daily Fantasy Yah’s and Nah’s: Don’t be fooled by guards who really only score
Today’s slate is five games long, replicating Christmas last Friday, with hopefully more competitive outcomes and better fantasy turnouts. Here’s what to look out for tonight....
Idiot of the Year #9: Rudolph Giuliani, irascible bug-man
Welcome to Deadspin’s farewell-to-2020 IDIOT OF THE YEAR awards! If you have made it this far, then congratulations, brave traveler....
Washington throws away playoff hopes like Dwayne Haskins tosses dollar bills
It seems crazy that Washington was leading the division with six wins coming into Sunday, and it seems even crazier that they are still leading the division after being smacked by a team that has lost twice as many games as it has won....
Don’t let Sunday fool you, the Steelers are the AFC’s most vulnerable playoff team
Don’t let Sunday’s comeback win versus the Colts fool you....
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....
Would anyone like to win the NFC East?
When you see a car wreck on the side of the road, you look. You may not like that you look, but you do it anyway....
This Packers team can win the Super Bowl
Don’t get it twisted. This is NOT last season’s Green Bay Packers....
Idiot of the Year #10: Zach Plesac, the stupidest canary in baseball’s coal mine
Welcome to Deadspin’s farewell-to-2020 IDIOT OF THE YEAR awards! If you have made it this far, then congratulations, brave traveler....
‘We’re gonna do 69,’ referee informs Cowboys-Eagles viewers
“We’re gonna do 69” was something I (or anyone) didn’t exactly expect to hear while watching the Cowboys-Eagles game....
Jets gift Trevor Lawrence to Jaguars with inexplicable back-to-back wins
For some reason, the Jets decided to win... again....
Jaguars fans brave COVID to root for Bears
It’s gotten so bad in Jacksonville, that it’s good....
Duke’s women’s team wasn’t the only basketball program to suspend its season last week
When you’re 0-9, people tend to ignore you even when your acts are newsworthy....