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MLB 'Dream Bracket' Would Be Better If Teams Were Set Up By Country, State. Here's How It Could Work
How About A World Baseball Classic-Style Sim?...
History And The Media Have Been Unfair To Randy Moss
Randy Moss is more than just a football legend. ...
Reliving My Baseball-Nerd Youth Through MLB’s 'Dream Bracket'
MLB’s ‘Dream Bracket,’ a tournament of every franchise’s best players, brings me back to the days of running computer baseball leagues on SSI, “Earl Weaver Baseball” and “Tony La Russa Baseball.” ...
What Happens To ‘Guaranteed’ Money When A League Dies?
Pretend, refreshingly, that it is 2019. You are a football coach. Perhaps you are unemployed, or a coordinator looking for your next step. You get an interesting call — it’s not the NFL, but a quixotic billionaire with his own upstart league. He wants to pay well for your services, maybe even sweete...
With Stage All To Itself, WNBA Has To Make Most Of This Moment
The WNBA has a prime opportunity tonight....
As The WNBA Draft Will Show, Sabrina Ionescu Is Far From Oregon's Only Superstar
Oregon’s former floor general, Sabrina Ionescu, has become the face of women’s college basketball. Deservedly so, from the shifty way she slices and dices defenses to her Kobe Bryant-esque approach to the game and her acknowledgement of the bond they shared....
Rating The New NFL Threads From Best to You Gotta Be Kidding Me
We’ve spent a lot of time here speculating on how or if respective leagues could complete their seasons. Or on the complete failure of capitalism. But it’s getting to the end of the week, so let’s try and be more cheerful....
Gov. Cuomo Is Taking Advice From Jeff Wilpon. What, A-Rod Wasn't Available?
Sometimes, it’s easiest to understand the scope of how messed up things are just by looking at the headlines. So, here are a few from the last 24-hour news cycle....
With WWE Layoffs, Vince McMahon Retains Title As World's Largest Douche
It’s hard to stand out as a shithead billionaire in these times. Whether you’re laying off employees you could easily afford to pay, or you’re influencing the government to turn a deadly crisis into a profitable opportunity, or you’re valuing the economy (i.e. your own bank account) over people’s li...
How The NFL Could Exploit A Plague To Tighten Its Death Grip On Sports
The NFL is the one league that wasn’t in the middle of a season or in training camp when the coronavirus epidemic hit. And that’s mostly true worldwide, with soccer, rugby, the Olympics, tennis, golf, cricket, and however many others feeling the freeze. The NFL still gets to sit back and observe how...
Anthony Fauci Has Been A Voice Of Reason. Until Now
With sports on an indefinite hiatus because of a pandemic that has killed more than 130,000 worldwide, it has never become more clear that our normal sports-driven lives have always been an illusion....
ASU Recruit Josh Christopher Part Of New Wave Of Socially Conscious College Athletes
We’re seeing a new generation of NCAA athlete....
Forget What Politicians Are Saying: Fans, League PR Officials Are Worried About Returning Too Soon
Sporting a LeBron James jersey as you truck up three to four flights of escalators at Staples Center to watch the King and his crew perform — or any sports team, for that matter — will likely not happen any time soon....
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?...
Phil Galfond Pulls Off Poker's Greatest Comeback Ever After Being Down $1M
In what can only be described as the most dramatic match in poker history, Phil Galfond completed an epic comeback against VeniVidi1993 on Easter in their heads-up pot-limit omaha “Galfond Challenge”, winning a 100,000 euro sidebet....
Which Sports Logo Is the Best? The Votes Are In
The Deadspin Tournament of Logos has come to its exciting conclusion, and after ranking the primary logos of all 123 teams in the four major sports leagues in North America (1-40, 41-80, 81-123), the winner is a team that doesn’t even exist anymore!...
Poker Pro Trash-Talking And Cleaning Out Tom Brady Makes Global Plague Almost Worth It
A bunch of A-list celebs signed up to battle it out in an online poker tournament, but in the end they were just a bunch of fish swallowed up by a full-time shark who trash-talked Tom Brady....
No Masters? No Problem! Retro Video Game Quarantine Hits The Links With NES Golf
This was supposed to be the weekend of The Masters, but instead it’s the weekend of the fifth installment of the Deadspin Sports Quarantine Nintendo Club, where nobody gets a green jacket. Maybe just green sweatpants....
Ben Affleck & Matt Damon Are Hosting A Charity Poker Tourney On A Sketchy Offshore Site. What Could Go Wrong?
Tom Brady, Ben Affleck and Matt Damon headline a group of Hollywood stars, poker pros and celebrities who will be on the virtual felt Saturday at 2 p.m. EST to raise money for charity....
The XFL Was Mostly Irrelevant, But Don't Celebrate Its Failure
For many football fans, the resurgence of the XFL was simply a way to get their weekend fix of America’s “new pastime.” ...