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Tanking for Trevor: This week's NFL Powerless Rankings
Deadspin is proud to introduce its weekly #TankforTrevor Powerless Rankings, where we examine the sorriest teams in the league who have the best chance of selecting Clemson star quarterback Trevor Lawrence in the 2021 NFL draft....
Cleveland gets the Browns beat out of ’em, Packers get smacked with their cheeseheads, and is Adam Gase calling in plays from a bar?
NFL football is still underway, despite multiple COVID-19 scares that have endangered the season over the past few weeks. ...
Virgil van Dijk’s injury blows Premier League title race wide open
In what has already been a bonkers EPL season full of goals, blown leads, and surprise teams at the top of the table, perhaps the biggest moment of the season so far occurred in the fifth minute of yesterday’s rubber-room of a Merseyside Derby between Liverpool and Everton. ...
The villainy doesn’t end with the Astros
There was a visceral joy in watching the Rays, on their fourth attempt, finally put the Astros to the sword last night. ...
Deadspin NFL Over/Under Bet of the Week: Bearing down on this under
Over/Under: 45...
The Astros finally lost but these cheaters never got what they deserved
Aledmys Díaz didn’t deserve to be the guy who made the last out for the Astros....
Remember way back in 2019 when Myles Garrett swinging a helmet was the biggest story in the world?
It’s been almost a year since Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett ripped off the helmet of Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph and began to clobber him with it into the turf. Garrett, Steelers Maurkice Pouncey, and Browns David DeCastro were all ejected....
Yale hockey follows strict protocols, still sees 18/19 players test positive for COVID-19
A COVID-19 outbreak at Yale University began early in the week, as six men’s hockey players tested positive for the virus, spurring the school to revert from Phase II of its virus protocol back to Phase 0....
Hands off, Sergio Aguero — at a minimum, touch of lineswoman should have been carded
If you know nothing else about soccer, you probably still know that it’s the game where you can’t use your hands....
Yellow-bellied Game 7 starter for Rays seeks to exorcise Astros demons he had hoped stayed hidden
Charlie Morton has proven himself as a big-game pitcher in the past. It was just three years ago that Morton started Game 7 of the ALCS and got the win with five innings of two-out shutout ball. Ten days later, he came out of the bullpen to pitch the final four innings of Game 7 of the World Series,...
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....
The NFL keeps following Trump into the abyss — first with Kaepernick then with COVID
We need to take a quick trip back in time to the year 2017. Something important happened then that explains, in part, the limp response of the NFL to the pandemic....
NHL Free Agency: To trade with Joe Sakic is to admit your limitations
It is perhaps the perfect statement about the inherent flaws of NHL free agency that the team to make the biggest move up the ladder is the one that didn’t sign anyone. And generally, when a former player rises to the ranks of GM, it’s only natural to question if he’s there because he actually knows...
You don’t have to feel sorry about Jose Altuve's 'Thing'
You can if you want. Certainly in this year that’s causing even Satan to tug at his collar we need all the empathy we can get. But there’s something reassuring that karma can exist, when we’ve spent most of the recent past watching shitty people do shitty things and get away with it to the point whe...
The NFL is going along with local guidelines to COVID, but will allow the Saints to switch local guidelines
It’s pretty easy to picture Roger Goodell staring blankly as the Saints told him about this, they surely didn’t ask, like a parent who has just completely given up and is letting the kids ransack the supermarket while they head to the liquor aisle:...
Everything is fine in college football, as Big 10 will no doubt find out this month
Welcome to the shitshow already in progress, Big 10....
Billy Beane changed baseball, but he could never conquer the game
While the movie “Moneyball” has become canon for the analytics movement in baseball — or more accurately those looking to trace its spread to basically every other sport — those who have read the book know that Billy Beane didn’t invent them with some intern he ransomed out of Cleveland (and every C...
Cristiano Ronaldo tests positive for COVID-19
Cristiano Ronaldo has been able to dodge the multiple sexual assault allegations that have been lodged against him, but 2020 caught up with the five-time Ballon d’Or winner on Tuesday as he was diagnosed with coronavirus....
Trump bullied the NFL for years and now they're both being bullied by Covid-19
It’s always been about checks and balances....
Players are terrified of COVID, but don’t want to speak up for fear of angering the NFL
They are terrified, and it’s understandable....