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Tread with caution if you're playing these guys on your fantasy football team: Week 11
It’s Thursday, which is the start of Week 11 on the football schedule. You only have this week and next to pencil your name into your league playoffs and to get that trash talk going against your leaguemates. Since this is the first of this column that you’ve seen from me, let’s set the expectation ...
LaMelo Ball is the star Michael Jordan and Charlotte desperately need
LaMelo Ball could transform the Charlotte Hornets right before our eyes....
Congratulations, Houston, on becoming America’s mightiest bastion of stupid sports deals
Houston deserves this crown....
Bucks go on Holiday shopping spree for Giannis
Never mind that the Milwaukee Bucks are trading away draft picks in a plea for Giannis Antetokounmpo to stay, they’re also applying pressure to the rest of the Eastern Conference....
We don’t want you to have to watch the Bears either
Whenever the NFL schedule is released, we Bears fans cringe whenever there’s a national game listed. Not because the Bears’ record over history on Sunday or Monday night is pretty porous, though that’s part of it. And it’s not the slagging we’ll be in for by national analysts. We’re numb to that by ...
NFC East looks worse than cafeteria chicken nuggets, Hopkins sons Bills DBs, and Wilson drops out of MVP race
Another week, another NFL Sunday is in the books....
DeAndre Hopkins wins game, makes three grown men look like they wear pampers
Cardinals receiver DeAndre Hopkins just put three Buffalo Bills defenders in a cradle with arguably one of the best game-winning catches in NFL history....
LA sports championships and a racially divided presidential campaign – we’ve seen this before
A dominant Lakers team, led by a charismatic, 6-foot-9 generational talent and a uniquely gifted big man, captured the NBA title. The Dodgers win a World Series featuring one of the most amazing game-endings ever seen. It’s a presidential election year featuring a Republican candidate appealing to h...
If you want championship teams to visit the White House again, vote For Biden/Harris
Steph Curry is generally liked by everybody. Well, unless you’re this guy......
Deadspin Presents: Top 10 presidential endorsements from sports stars, Part II: Biden backers
It’s rare for athletes to openly advocate for a change in leadership in their day-to-day lives, because it usually means getting branded as a “coach killer,” or an excuse-maker. But when it comes to politics, it’s different. There’s the choice of either the person in charge, or the person running to...
The 10 worst pitching changes in World Series history
Kevin Cash isn’t the only manager to blow a World Series game courtesy of a bad bullpen decision. A number of pitchers suffered the same fate as the Rays’ Ian Snell. Here’s a reminder of costly mistakes committed on baseball’s biggest stage....
DeAndre Hopkins 'swerves' through MAGA caravan in Ferrari, middle fingers up
Part of the reason we love sports is watching girls and guys live out dreams that we’re not capable of. And sometimes they do it in more of a baller fashion than we’ve ever conceived. Most of it takes place on the field — a great play with a dash of swag that only comes from the confidence of being ...
With COVID-19 outbreaks linked to ice rinks, how will college hockey even start?
When the coronavirus pandemic hit America earlier this year, one of the first sporting events to be canceled was college hockey’s Frozen Four. It’s a sign of how badly things have gone here that it’s getting harder and harder to see the way to the event taking place in 2021, because at the moment, t...
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....
My Twitter fight with Trevor Bauer
Trevor Bauer and I both worked in Toronto during the 2016 American League Championship Series. One of us made it all the way through Game 3 without bleeding all over the place from a cut sustained while working on a drone and forcing our boss to replace us....
Dwayne Haskins sacrificed for NFL Nepotism of Scott Turner, Norv’s Son
New Washington Football Team Head Coach Ron Rivera made one of the riskiest hires imaginable going into 2020. Despite inheriting a young developing quarterback in Dwayne Haskins, he hired Scott Turner as his offensive coordinator, a man who has never won a single game in that capacity....
Minor hockey league pretends it’s going to have an almost normal 2020-21 season
In case you’re thinking that life is going to get back to normal anytime soon, minor league hockey has provided the first reminder that it’s absolutely not....
Even in the ‘Year of the Black QB,’ a double-standard remains
Ten Black quarterbacks – the most ever – started Week One of this NFL season, and it seemed that a new era might finally be dawning. It was a positive measure of progress that rang in “The Year of the Black Quarterback.”...
Vegas Golden Knights sign Robin Lehner to 5-year deal
Robin Lehner has found a long-term home in Sin City, as the Las Vegas Golden Knights have answered the question of who will replace aging franchise goalie Marc-Andre Fleury....
The Political Football of Political Football
After initially deciding to sit this season out due to a deadly virus, last week the Big Ten reversed course....