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Admitted steroid user Gary Sheffield claims MLB tried to blackball him for speaking outFormer slugger Gary Sheffield claims MLB tried to force him out of the sport in the 1990s after he spoke out about the growing steroid scandal. ...

There aren’t enough wealthy team owners on Earth to save the PGA TourThe PGA Tour and LIV Golf are engaging in an arms race for the future of golf, with the former getting a $3 billion injection of cash from the Strategic Sports Group this week, while the latter is content luring defectors with massive contracts. The endgame for the PGA Tour? Try to keep golf as clos...

How suspected or confirmed PED users have fared in Baseball Hall of Fame votingIs Gary Sheffield more Hall of Fame worthy than Alex Rodriguez, despite the fact that both are inextricably linked to performing enhancing drugs?...

The NBA script is already rolling as the writers’ strike ends

Ding-dong, the strike is dead. The Deadspin staff’s WGA brethren have come to an agreement with the AMPTP that financially acknowledges the importance of the brains and fingertips that are part of the foundation of entertainment. ...

Billionaire ‘loses’ football team for $6 billion

One of the worst figures in the NFL is reportedly now out of the league, with Dan Snyder reportedly reaching an agreement to sell the Commanders to a group led by Philadelphia 76ers co-owner Josh Harris for $6 billion. Harris’ group includes billionaire Mitchell Rales and Magic Johnson, with the for...

The best and most memorable Super Bowl ads of all time

Every year, people tune into the Super Bowl to watch the two best teams in the league give everything they have to win the game and hoist the Lombardi Trophy. Companies, on the other hand, fight each other for those elusive and expensive moments of airtime to promote their brand. Everyone in the wor...

Commanders primed to replace Lions as NFL’s worst

In back-to-back weeks, the Washington Commanders have circled the drain. In a matchup of turd-bowl franchises racing to the sewers, Sunday’s Week 1 win over the Jacksonville Jaguars, Washington didn’t stink for a change. ...

IDIOT OF THE MONTH: We're surrounded by idiots

“Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” ― Mark Twain...

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Man alive, Dan Snyder has a lot to answer for

Daniel Snyder has run one of the NFL’s flagship franchises into the ground. From revenue to attendance and overall fan interest, the now-Commanders have never been less relevant to the most popular sport in America, with no signs of the end of the plummet in sight....

by Eric Blum|

|Thu Jun 23 2022

The Washington Commanders are moving into a tiny house

The Washington Commanders proposed stadium in Virginia was already a boondoggle. Even before the Virginia state legislature paused its vote on the Commanders’ contentious stadium subsidy deal, support was dwindling. The Commanders know a little something about losing support. The team ranked 32nd in...

by DJ Dunson|

|Wed Jun 01 2022

Dan Snyder’s Commanders are a failed state

The Washington Commanders are a crumbling empire. The once thriving franchise has been reduced to something worse than a laughingstock over the last two decades. The Houston Texans, Jacksonville Jaguars and New York Giants are a joke. Dan Snyder’s dysfunctional Washington Commanders are a waking nig...

by DJ Dunson|

|Fri May 27 2022

Dan Snyder’s Commies usher in new era with same old brand of failure

If you thought Tom Brady was petty for being scooped by a few national NFL reporters over the weekend about his impending retirement and drawing it out until an Instagram post on Tuesday morning, at least he didn’t take the lazy approach and ignore what we now know to be fact. The former Washington ...

by Eric Blum|

|Thu Oct 13 2022

A date has been set for the unveiling of the Washington Football Team’s new name, if they could only set a date to stop being a clown show

It took some years but the Washington Football Team is finally going to have a name that is neither a racial slur nor the name a middle schooler would choose in create-a-franchise mode, if forced by parents to play Madden instead of Grand Theft Auto. Washington announced today that on Feb. 2 its new...

by Stephen Knox|

|Tue Jan 04 2022

Ja Morant says he’s taking social media break after being heckled at home

The internet leaked into real life again as living, breathing faceless Twitter profiles took human form, came to FedEx Forum and told Ja Morant to go back on the injured list during the Grizzlies’ loss to the Thunder on Monday. If you missed it, Memphis won 10 of 12 against an easy schedule, includi...

by Sean Beckwith|

|Thu Dec 23 2021

Week 13 NFL Powerless Ranking: Detroit finally wakes from nightmare

Welcome to this week’s NFL Powerless Rankings. We’re closing in on the home stretch of the NFL season, and we know the contenders from the pretenders at this point. We’ll talk about the contenders later because this list is about the less fortunate teams in the league. Let’s check out the worst of t...

by Criss Partee|

|Mon Dec 06 2021

Idiot of the Month: New calendar page, same old dweebs

Welcome to Deadspin’s IDIOT OF THE MONTH, the world-renowned monthly series where we direct sophomoric insults and, occasionally, pointed commentary at those sports figures most deserving of the smoke. We are but a day removed from Halloween, yet those listed after the jump have been cosplaying as m...

by Thomas Laforgia|

|Mon Nov 01 2021

This week in metaphors: ‘Sewage’ water rains down on Washington football fans

Once in a while we are blessed with a visual representation so perfectly accurate that it can’t be ignored. And, indeed, that is what we have here, captured on video: a burst sewage pipe at FedEx Field, leaking filthy shit-water on paying fans....

by Thomas Laforgia|

|Mon Sep 13 2021

Washington Team to 'Consider' Name Change Amid Pressure From FedEx, Nike, Pepsi

The press release that the Washington NFL team put out on Friday morning reads like someone loading up a plate at an all-you-can-eat buffet while promising to go on a diet afterward....

by Jesse Spector|

|Fri Jul 03 2020

FedEx, Washington NFL Stadium’s $205 Million Sponsor, Asks Team to Change Name [UPDATED]

Update (July 3): With pressure mounting from sponsors including FedEx, Nike, and now Pepsi, Washington announced today it would consider changing the name of its franchise. Follow the latest here....

by Jesse Spector|

|Fri Jul 03 2020

Even Beer Vendors Have Turned On The Skins

Fans aren’t alone: Even beer vendors hate being inside Jack Kent Cooke’s Folly....

by Dave McKenna|

|Thu Sep 20 2018

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