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Stupid ways to fill out your NCAA Tournament bracket
Your well-considered bracket is try-hard garbage. Admit it. With all your esoteric knowledge of basketball — and possibly even due to it — you will inevitably sit slack-jawed in the coming weeks as your “lock” of a team gets melted by a 5-foot-3 point guard from Southwest Rando State University....

Which team is the only one since brackets expanded to make three title games in a row? (And how’d they do?)
We covered all the teams to make two NCAA title games in a row in this article… except... I left out one on purpose with the way I worded the question. Because there has only been one team since the 1985 expansion to make THREE final games in a row. They won it, lost it (in overtime), and won it bac...

The Warriors prioritizing Steph Curry’s ‘window’ is what’s wrong with sports today
It’s one of the oldest clichés in sports: There’s no “I” in team....

Deadspin Wayback Machine: On this date, Cardiac Kemba is born and DeAndre Jordan makes Brandon Knight rethink ever stepping onto a court
Today is the anniversary of two of the most iconic basketball moments in the 21st century....

Is Overtime Elite the amateur sports game changer we’ve been waiting for?
It’s probably too soon to tell, but the new paid basketball league for 16- to 18-year-olds is certainly intriguing....

Deadspin Wayback Machine: A look back at some of sports’ great relics
One of the great things about sports is the comfort that they provide. While the world is always changing, sometimes at a pace that’s hard to process, sports are largely static. If you watch a football game from 50 years ago, there certainly are differences in strategy and the size and speed of the ...

Remembering Eddie Murphy’s Coming to America and the scene that made ‘In Da Face’ a thing
Frustrated by many erroneous foul calls on his star player Rik Smits, Dave Magarity found himself pacing up and down the sidelines at Madison Square Garden. It was another game, one of many for the Marist head coach. At the time, there was nothing remarkable about it. But what Magarity didn’t know w...

Welcome to The Ladies Room, a Deadspin Sports podcast ... this week, Lesley Visser talks being the first, and the GOAT, at everything
Welcome to the Ladies Room - A Deadspin Sports Podcast....

NBA is granting two-way players postseason-eligibility, per report, which could help some teams
Suddenly, depth may become even more important in this year’s playoffs. ...

Sin City: Knights make awful bet with ‘tout’ site, get roasted, then end partnership quicker than a Vegas marriage
It was only a matter of time before the Vegas Golden Knights made some sort of shady deal, right? It is Vegas, after all....

J.J. Watt is signed with Arizona, so can the Texans please free Deshaun Watson now?
Welp, it looks like years of inexcusable dysfunction, a souring relationship with a franchise QB, and a week of cryptic tweets have led us here....

How did the Houston Rockets not take back Jarrett Allen in the James Harden deal?
As soon as Kenny Atkinson parted ways with the Brooklyn Nets on March 7 of last year, Jarrett Allen lost his starting spot to DeAndre Jordan. The move only lasted for two games because days later, we were amid a country-wide shutdown. But it also crystalized Allen’s standing with Brooklyn, which car...

Vernon Maxwell needs to log off, Tony DeAngelo still talking
Vernon Maxwell will forever be remembered as the guy who went into the stands in Portland and punched a guy right in the face....

J.J. Watt's time with Texans is over as franchise star and Houston hero is released, free to go to... Steelers?
As Houston continues to revamp their team and try to resurrect their franchise from the lifeless pit of despair that former head coach and general manager Bill O’Brien left it in, the Texans and J.J. Watt have mutually agreed to part ways. Watt was released today, allowing him to search for a new te...

Tony DeAngelo on waivers as teammate (allegedly) punches him in face
NHL transactions are always hard to read. You never know if something is just salary cap manipulation, related to it or an actual move. The New York Rangers, for instance, have had to shuttle guys like K’Andre Miller and Kaapo Kakko on and off their taxi squad to save just thousands of dollars per d...

NFL analysts defending Deshaun Watson's trade demands are foolish
There are things to fight for as a player. But this Deshaun Watson fight is a total farce....

Cory Booker tells Deadspin there is a 'real window of opportunity' for the College Athletes Bill of Rights to pass
Over the summer, Cory Booker told Deadspin that he “would not be here today if it were not for college sports” and the lessons he learned from playing college football. The former tight end was a high school All-American and received a scholarship to play Division I ball at Stanford. But his experie...
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Totally believable Not-Tony DeAngelo burner account roasted by Twitter: Deadspin Investigates [UPDATED]
Nobody has ever accused Tony DeAngelo of being smart, and Deadspin’s No. 19 Idiot of the Year for 2020 is off to a strong start toward making our 2021 list....

Nick Saban and Alabama’s medical staff should have never let Jaylen Waddle touch the field last night
There was nothing to be proud of when watching Alabama receiver Jaylen Waddle limp around the field last night in the National Championship game....

N.Y. Ranger idiot who enjoys a good racial slur rage-quits Twitter to protest his dear leader Trump's ban
After Twitter (finally) laid the ban hammer on Donald Trump for inciting white nationalist terrorists to violence, Rangers defenseman Tony DeAngelo rage-quit the platform himself. And it was just as hilarious as you’d think it was....