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The final NFL Powerless Rankings - and what these teams should do in the draft
For the final time this season, Deadspin highlights the teams stinking up the joint every single week....
NBA Daily Fantasy Yah’s & Nah’s: Will Joel Embiid continue being excellent?
A few of y’all have told me you’ve been winning some money. Good. Don’t buy Yeezys or some dumb shit. Let’s keep the good vibes going early into the New Year. We start in Philadelphia, a place that Carson Wentz will be leaving soon. ...
Behold! Your NFL playoff matchups are nigh
We get a real treat on Wild-Card Weekend this year. With the expanded playoff structure that was introduced prior to the 2020 season, an additional Wild-Card team is in play. In the past, the top two seeds from each conference received a bye – now, only the one seed moves on, giving us six teams fro...
The Browns haven’t won a playoff game since DJ Jazzy Jeff was on TV, that could change Sunday
Well, well, well... look what we have here. ...
Cardinals fumble playoff berth, NFC East ends season just like it started, and Titans almost cough up AFC South like a cigar smoker
The end of the NFL season is finally here. By Hell or high water, the NFL made it through this season, some will rejoice in that fact, but many will say that this season should have never been played....
Stop the Patrick Mahomes shoo-in talk for MVP - he's come up empty the last two seasons
The time has come to pump the brakes on Patrick Mahomes....
Deadspin discusses the NFL’s cheerleader problem with filmmaker Yu Gu
Yu Gu has been directing films for over a decade. Her latest documentary, A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem, follows two women in their fight for fair pay from the NFL — a multibillion dollar industry....
Pederson and Eagles should lose all respect after Sunday Night Football tank job
If you’re still confused about what you watched last night on NBC, don’t be....
The NFL finished its season, which is not an accomplishment
When the Washington Football Team finally sacked or tackled or whatever it was they did to whatever it was that Doug Pederson had inserted at QB last night, the NFL could claim it had completed its season without a hitch. All games were played, every team got to 16 games. They will tell you this was...
Is time up for Frank Lampard at Chelsea?
It felt like it was lining up for Chelsea today. After some disappointing results around Christmas, they were getting Manchester City at home after the latter’s training facility had been closed for days, had its last game postponed, and certainly hadn’t had the best preparation for such a big game....
Let Stefon Diggs remind you of your empty New Year’s resolution
It’s early January. If you’re like me, you’ve made an extremely vague New Year’s resolution you’ll forget you ever had within a matter of weeks. Of course you didn’t tell anyone of this resolution. You don’t want people actually holding you to your word. Mine was to floss more, yours was to go to th...
Ranking the NFL’s head coaches on the likelihood they’ll be immediately fired Monday
We’re a day away from Bloody Monday in the NFL. Which, side note, sounds a lot scarier than it is....
Sunday Scaries: The Week 17 bets to avoid
We made it. Week 17. It’s here despite, you know, everything going on....
The sports figures we've lost in 2021
Here’s a look at the athletes and sports figures we’ve lost in 2021....
Idiot of the Year: All the worst from a 2020 to forget
Welcome to Deadspin’s IDIOT OF THE YEAR awards! Our expert team has worked tirelessly to bring you this annual list of the sports and sports-adjacent figures who most intensely made us wish we had been shaken as infants....
Bend, don't break: Ranking the NFL's top 10 defenses
Even in today’s high-scoring NFL, defense is crucial. The playoff picture will be solidified this weekend, and as that old clichéd adage goes, “Defense wins championships.” I know, I know… I threw up a little writing it. But, it holds true. Just two seasons ago, we saw the second-ranked offense (Ram...
NBA Daily Fantasy Grind, New Year Edition: 'Young' love & the return of … Josh Jackson?!
Happy New Year! Hopefully, you lose way less money in 2021 than you did in 2020. That may sound facetious, but it’s sincere. That shit was hard. This shit gon’ be aight … hopefully. Anyway, to begin the new calendar, we’ve got 10 games. Ideally, whoever you put money on tonight isn’t hungover. ...
Idiot of the Year #1: Kelly Loeffler, somehow worse than Trump
Welcome to Deadspin’s farewell-to-2020 IDIOT OF THE YEAR awards! If you have made it this far, then congratulations, brave traveler....