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Happy 20th to Vince Carter cordially asking Frédéric Weis to please step aside so he could dunk
Frédéric Weis basketball career was eviscerated on this day exactly 20 years ago by none other than Vinsanity. ...
We Run Down the COVID-19 Situation on Big Ten Campuses. It's Not Pretty
The Big Ten is back from the dead....
Hey Big Ten, How About Daily COVID Testing for My Kid?
Well, the Big Ten finally cracked....
The NFL is Blackballing Eric Reid, too
On March 29, ESPN ranked its top 15 remaining NFL free agents. Like nearly all NFL free-agent lists, it failed to include NFL free agent Colin Kaepernick....
Football is the Perfect Reflection of America — That’s Not a Good Thing
They told us that sports were a reward for a functioning society. ...
![Trump Killed College Football, He Can’t Try To Save It Now [UPDATED]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/xijwtitxrkhcrtvjrcbv.jpg)
Trump Killed College Football, He Can’t Try To Save It Now [UPDATED]
The powers that be in this country never cease to amaze me....
J-Lo, A-Rod Whining Over Withdrawing Bid to Buy Mets is Peak #RichPeopleProblems
Everyone’s hopes and dreams have validity, and who among us has not dreamed of buying a baseball team?...
Max Kellerman Says Nothing but the Truth and it Drives Trumpers Crazy
Here’s a nomination for Truth Teller in Media award: Max Kellerman....
Orange Cassidy Is the Wednesday Night Wars
It’s been a week where Triple H has admitted that the WWE is directly counter-programming AEW with their NXT shows, essentially an official acknowledgement of the “Wednesday Night Wars” between the companies. Last night seemed the most distinct illustration of the difference between the two. While b...
With Pro Football Hall of Fame Voters So White, Members Call for Diversity
A deep, underground, and uniquely American fault line shifted when Minnesota police murdered George Floyd. His killing shook this country to its historically racist core. Slowly, a subsection of our country is starting to hear and contemplate what minorities have been saying all along — the institut...
Ian Desmond, Baseball, and Living in Someone Else's Home
A friend messaged me early this morning about an Instagram thread by Ian Desmond that I had to read....
What If That Fake Patrick Mahomes Tweet was Real?
For a few hours on Saturday, things got uncomfortable for the ownership of the Kansas City Chiefs....
Josh Gibson and the Long Gone Summers That Should Have Been
The following is adapted from the podcast script for Stick to Pods Episode 11, “Josh Gibson,” which originally aired on April 12, 2018...
America Can Learn Something From America East Men's Basketball Coaches: Make Election Day A Holiday
Early in the week, rapper Killer Mike went viral with his speech at an Atlanta mayoral press conference. In his comments, he outlined a two-pronged approach to social justice: on-the-ground activism and voting....
MLB’s Milquetoast-Ass Protest Statement Is Infuriating, But No Surprise
Major League Baseball took until Wednesday to finally join the parade of somber plain-text public relations statements acknowledging that racism is, in fact, bad....
Crisp Visual Metaphor Of The Week: Jaguars' Mascot Beaten To Pulp In Empty Stadium
In what could only be described as a Jason Mendoza fever dream, AEW held a 10-man main event Saturday night inside the Jacksonville Jaguars’ stadium with the Jaguars cheerleaders and the team mascot, Jaxson de Ville. Perhaps if Mr. Mendoza had known about this, he wouldn’t have thought a perfect Mad...
Trump Praising Illegal Protests, But Calling Kaepernick A 'Son Of A Bitch' Shows Patriotic Hypocrisy
As small groups of protesters violated stay-at-home and social distancing policies amidst the COVID-19 quarantine, Trump lauded the lawbreakers as freedom fighters....
The Best No. 1 Picks Of The Last Decade? We Ranked Them
The 2020 NFL Draft starts a new decade for prospects looking to make their childhood dreams come true. ...
Is This Little Girl's Life Worth "Getting Back To Normal"?
The next time you see maskless droves of people swarming to recently opened beaches in Florida in the name of “essential activities” such as walking, biking, hiking, fishing, running, swimming and surfing......
These Are The Sports Films That Should Have Already Been Made
Scrolling endlessly through Netflix and HBO, looking for new movies to watch, sparked an idea: What are the movies I would definitely watch, but haven’t been made yet?...