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An early check-in on the quarterback class of 2018
Since 1983, only three NFL drafts have produced five or more quarterbacks in the first round....

If America’s racial reckoning were real, violent lunatic Gregg Marshall would already be fired
A few months ago, white athletes and coaches were marching and standing alongside their Black teammates and players in unity. They had supposedly seen the light. It was finally time for change....

FOX's camera crew didn’t think the Giants could make a play, either
Surprise! The Giants are… winning a football game?...

Sunday Scaries: The Week 6 bets you should avoid
We’ve made it to Week 6 and everything is fine in the NFL....

Deadspin Presents the most overpaid and underpaid coaches in college football: Vol. 1, The Fat Cats
Earlier this week USA Today released its comprehensive list of college football coaches’ salaries for this season. ...

Kelly Loeffler’s endorsement from QAnon supporter shows how far America has fallen
In a different America, Kelly Loeffler and her financial transactions — that sure as hell look like she was trading on privileged information — would be the political scandal of the year, if not the decade....

Actually, it's LeBron who's the G.O.A.T.
I want to state right at the top I utterly abhor this debate. ...

Is Adam Gase a better coach than a potato? Wikipedia says no
Every single day that someone, like me, wakes up and remembers they are a Jets fan is a day they know will be filled with sadness, anger, confusion, and eventually resignation....

BREAKING: Adam Schefter is a vacuous turd who embodies white male privilege
Sports media is overpopulated by privileged white people, myself included. But it’s especially populated by privileged white men, who are never called to account for their privilege or use it in any constructive way. America seems, by and large, OK with this: The “leave politics out of sports!” crow...

Stadium and arena voting is just one step in long war against voter suppression
In a healthy, vibrant and functioning democracy, Nse Ufot’s job would be done by a government official....

Sorry LeBron James fans, Michael Jordan is still the G.O.A.T.
It’s a Trash Talking Tuesday and today, I’m trashing all those LeBron James fans who are being prisoners of the moment....

Your totally not late at all LCS preview
Things aren’t supposed to start on Sunday. That’s why the phrase “Even God rests on Sundays” is around. It’s a deflation period. So yeah, I wasn’t totally on top of it with the ALCS starting yesterday. But it was a Sunday. They’re meant for long walks or brunch (which you make yourself these days an...

Week 5 takeaways: Another coach is gone, the Niners got smacked like they ate an edible, and the Boys’ D is as bad as Trump’s COVID team
After a crazy week in the NFL that saw more players testing positive for COVID-19, a mass reshuffling of games, and coaches getting the boot, here we are again with our weekly NFL takeaways. ...

Defense and the play of a former Celtic gave Lakers their 17th NBA championship
Defense wins…. well, you know the rest....
![Dak Prescott headed to surgery after a gruesome ankle injury [Updated]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/meoqmlz3eladrjvwv5r5.jpg)
Dak Prescott headed to surgery after a gruesome ankle injury [Updated]
Dallas Cowboys quarterback Dak Prescott has been taken to the hospital after being carted off the field today versus the Giants after suffering what seems to be a serious lower leg injury. ...

Rafael Nadal wins Rafael Nadal Open for 13th time
There was a thought, maybe even a hope, from a minority that just wanted to see some variety, that the different setting and conditions for this year’s French Open would make things too difficult for Rafael Nadal. Or maybe just more difficult. Or maybe even slightly difficult....
![Florida’s Dan Mullen wants to risk 90,000 lives because he can’t coach under pressure [UPDATED]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/dchvqsiwcfcqaorzppig.jpg)
Florida’s Dan Mullen wants to risk 90,000 lives because he can’t coach under pressure [UPDATED]
It’s clear Florida head coach Dan Mullen doesn’t care about public health....

Sunday Scaries: The Week 5 bets you should avoid
Welcome to another installment of the Sunday Scaries where NFL Sundays are becoming, fittingly, scarier....

Maybe Tom Brady is on Regeneron, too
It would seem that being a rich, chowder-brained pudwhack is contagious, as on the last drive of the Buccaneers’ Thursday night contest against the Bears, Tom Brady, perhaps showing the most dedication to his friend in the White House by letting his brain drip out his ear in tribute, forgot what dow...

Bill O'Brien is gone - which trash coach will be next?
It’s that time of the NFL season. Four games into the year, the heartbeat of what teams are — and aren’t — is being rounded out and presented for all to see, and it’s time to make some hard decisions....