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Sports are awesome, but the business is fascinatingSomething about summer in America will always feel more like the true transition of the year as opposed to New Year’s Day. The holiday has so much pomp and circumstance that it’s difficult to take the time to truly reflect on the year, and it is also very cold in much of the country. During the summ...

The most anticipated boxing matchup in years had a rough SEO dayThere is not a lot of room in the news cycle at the moment. Much of it is being swallowed up by Donald Trump being arraigned for allegedly turning Mar-A-Lago into a Hoarders episode using classified documents. (He pleaded not guilty on Tuesday.) In sports, the LIV-PGA merger is being investigated by...

America is determined to focus on the white women’s Olympic team that’s losing, instead of the Black women’s Olympic team that always winsFrom the Confederacy to Jim Kelly’s Buffalo Bills teams in the early ’90s, and even the consistent coverage of Donald Trump and his supporters, throughout history, America has proven that it’s fascinated with losers… who are white....

Now Accepting Nominations For The Deadspy Awards, Our Anti-ESPYs

If ESPN can spend the worst sports week of the year staging a monstrously wasteful and self-indulgent awards ceremony, we at Deadspin figured ... hey, why not us, too? Introducing the Deadspy Awards, our suitably half-assed anti-ESPYs. For every meaningless ESPY, there will be a corresponding anti-...

Every Hilarious Reaction Shot From Norm Macdonald's ESPYs Monologue

Every year ESPN drags out the three-hour press release that is the ESPYs and every year we post the above video of Norm Macdonald's monologue from the 1998 ESPYs. This was the sixth annual ESPY awards, which means it took a scant six years for the ESPYs to become as self-serious and pathetic as th...

The ESPYs Are A Colossal Waste Of Money

It's a nearly annual question in Bristol: Can we finally cancel the ESPYs?...

Remember when Norm Macdonald torched the ESPYs? We sure do....

Tim Tebow Would Like A Stylist Who Doesn't Swear, Please

The ESPYs are Wednesday, and you just might watch it because there are literally no other sports going on. Everyone's favorite projection Tim Tebow is in L.A. for the awards, but first he had to get his hair did. According to Celebuzz, Tebow stopped into a Beverly Hills salon over the weekend and ha...