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![Division III Had No Problem Shutting Down Championships. What’s the Hold-Up for D1? [Updated]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/w8vzwnwfhmh9jj5f5eqe.jpg)
Division III Had No Problem Shutting Down Championships. What’s the Hold-Up for D1? [Updated]
The NCAA Division III Presidents Council’s decision, Wednesday, to cancel all fall sports championships for the 2020-21 school year in what could foreshadow the fate of larger divisions....
Late, Great Pete Hamill Almost Assuredly Giving Walter O'Malley the Business Already in Afterlife
The great Pete Hamill, an icon of New York City and journalism, died on Wednesday. He was 85. According to an obituary written by Larry McShane of the New York Daily News:...
![NCAA athletes can keep scholarships with opt-out [UPDATED]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/hsz0cxtejjxmepdlx1x3.jpg)
NCAA athletes can keep scholarships with opt-out [UPDATED]
The NCAA will allow students to opt-out of the season due to concerns over COVID-19 and still honor athletic scholarships, it was reported Wednesday....
Stan Kroenke Takes His Evil International as FA Cup Champ Arsenal Gives FU to 55 Axed Workers
Putting that in present tense is a mistake, of course. Stan Kroenke has been the shithead owner of Arsenal FC for a long while now, along with his other teams. Today was perhaps his coup de asshole, though. ...
Fulham Return To Premier League With a Goal From Narnia
The Championship Playoff Final is often labeled “The Richest Match In The World.” Because it is. The winner gets promoted to the Premier League, and along with it the aircraft carrier of TV money, increased ticket prices, uptick in merchandise, and everything else. It is estimated that winning the g...
UConn Listens to Its Players - Announces It Will Call Off 2020 Football Season
This morning, the University of Connecticut announced it would cancel the 2020 football season. The decision makes UConn the first FBS school to cancel football....
The Mourning After: Canes Eliminate Rangers, Plague-Ravaged Marlins Blank Orioles
We’ve had our first ejection out of the NHL bubble, as the New York Rangers never came close to beating the Carolina Hurricanes and have hence been punted out of Toronto. I hope they line them outside the hotel and loudly shut the gate behind them as all the players of the teams still competing watc...
WNBA Urges Voters: Kick Kelly Loeffler’s Terrible Ass Out of Congress
The WNBA pulls no goddamn punches....
Is a Sentient AI Trying to Destroy the Pittsburgh Pirates?
It was always going to be a trudge for the Pittsburgh Pirates. They are the only team in the NL Central not at least making an effort to win. They’ve been stripped of almost any recognizable players. Their fans have to watch Austin Meadows and Tyler Glasnow anchor the competitive Rays while Chris Ar...
Citing Growing COVID Cases, Rafa Opts Out of US Open
Tennis legend Rafael Nadal has decided to skip the U.S. Open. Nadal broke the news via Twitter, where he outlined his concerns about the spread of COVID-19....
No, Really. The NFL Has a Lou Williams Rule
Foresight can be invaluable, especially for a league that’s always its own worst enemy....
Is the Dream Already Over for Shohei Ohtani?
Baseball announcers love to tell you the great thing about the game is that every day you have a chance, maybe even likely, to see something you’ve never seen before. That doesn’t always hold true, but it’s a lovely thought. All sports promise something memorable and awe-inspiring at a moment’s noti...
NBA Season Ticket Holders Irate at Having to Shell Out Money for 2021-22 and Fear Reprisal from Billionaires
After the Sixers blew the ’76-’77 finals to the Portland Trailblazers, the franchise adopted the regrettable slogan, “We owe you one!” Well, contemporary Sixers fans owe the franchise that finally paid in full in 1983....
Baseball's 2020 Playoff Plans Are Simultaneously Absurd and Perfect
Major League Baseball’s plan for this fall, an expanded postseason in which 16 of 30 teams have a chance to win the World Series, is patently ludicrous....
Pac-12 Football Players Use Their Platforms To Promote #WeAreUnited Message, Demand Better Treatment
Since the #WeAreUnited letter released via the Players’ Tribune, Pac-12 players have come out to publicly support the letter written by a collection of conference athletes....
The Mourning After: Casualties Mount In Baseball (Evergreen Headline Right Now tbh)
The baseball season made up of duct tape and used chewing gum continued to roll on. The Cardinals and Tigers series this week was postponed, while the infected Cardinals were rented cars to drive themselves from Milwaukee back to St. Louis. No word on whether the doors on said cars were controlled r...
![JFC, Connor McDavid [Look At This Ridiculous Goal]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/lx2sr4pgicl3x64pq4b2.jpg)
JFC, Connor McDavid [Look At This Ridiculous Goal]
The NHL is an infuriating league to follow but every once in a while the game of hockey provides us moments in which we remember why we watch it....
![Quinton Dunbar’s Crooked Lawyer, Accused of Witness Tampering, Could Be Disbarred for Political Corruption [UPDATED]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/qmvwr1annxlbvaz6lgal.png)
Quinton Dunbar’s Crooked Lawyer, Accused of Witness Tampering, Could Be Disbarred for Political Corruption [UPDATED]
Update (August 4, 12:00 p.m.): The Florida Bar confirmed that it has opened a second investigation into Michael Grieco, centered around the lawmaker’s alleged witness tampering in the ongoing Quinton Dunbar/DeAndre Baker armed robbery case. ...
Matt Dumba Spoke From His Heart, and the NHL Left Him Out to Dry
Update: Ryan Reaves reversed course and kneeled for the anthem before Vegas’s game against Dallas, along with Robin Lehner, Tyler Seguin, and Jason Dickinson....
Rating Each League’s Virtual Fans
With all the leagues that had to restructure their schedules or create a completely new tournament now back in action, we’ve seen various ways of trying to incorporate fans into the TV presentation. All leagues want you to know just how much they miss you (or your money), and how welcome you (or you...