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The Hall of Fame Game Has Been Canceled - It Should Stay That Way
Now might be a good time to think about the future of the Hall of Fame game....
College Football Players Are Pulling The Sport’s Racist Curtains Back For All To See
Dabo Swinney doesn’t get it. Nor does he want to....
Coaches And Leagues Expose Themselves With Hollow Words
People are so predictable. Especially the fake ones....
Morning Drinkers Rejoice: Premier League And Serie A Announce Return Dates
In give-it-a-name fashion, both the Premier League In England and Italy’s Serie A announced today the dates they will resume. The Premier League will restart on June 17, behind closed doors (no fans), with two matches and then a full-slate the following weekend. Serie A will return on June 20....
The NFL Isn't Only Place With Diversity Issues Among Its Football Coaches, The College Game Is Just As Bad
The NFL is once again trying to mask its diversity shortcomings with a “public” ploy to hoodwink and bamboozle us. But, sadly this isn’t an exclusive problem that exists at the games highest level....
Since Half Of NFL Fans Are Women, How 'bout Putting One In The Booth For 'Monday Night Football'?
Want to see a sexist NFL fan’s head explode? Mention that nearly half the NFL’s audience is made up of women....
Is It A Guten Idea To Restart Soccer In Germany?
I’ll give you all a bit of a glimpse behind the scenes here. We’ve soured on “possible reopening plan” stories. We’re pretty much against running them until something is concrete. You’re probably sick of them, too. They’re just trial balloons or fingers in the wind. They all follow the same formula,...
Baseball Isn’t The Only Sport With Lower Division Problems
The landscape of the world’s most popular game is about to change severely....
History And The Media Have Been Unfair To Randy Moss
Randy Moss is more than just a football legend. ...
Peyton Manning Was Never Going To Make Monday Night Football Good Again. But There Still Is A Way To Salvage It
The NFL is just about the only league fans can discuss in a definite future tense. While there are some forecasts out there that the Coronavirus pandemic and subsequent measures to combat it could stretch into late summer and fall, it’s far enough in the distance that football season still feels saf...
As the Quarantine Goes on, So Does Our Retro Video Game Review. Next up? NES 10-Yard Fight
The Deadspin Sports Quarantine Nintendo Club opened with the classic Ice Hockey, and it was a great time. As tough as it was getting clobbered by the Soviet Union, it turned out the game still holds up and that early trouncing, just like for Team USA in the run-up to the 1980 Olympics, served as mot...
Hey, NFL, You're On The Clock. Make The Right Choice And Postpone The Draft
It’s no secret that the coronavirus has effectively altered sports history....
That Andy Dalton Feeling
It’s a strange and sad fact of how sports works in this moment that the number of people who cared about poor Andy Dalton being benched by the ultra-moribund Cincinnati Bengals and the Washington Nationals winning the World Series in thrilling and satisfying fashion is pretty close. But when we reco...
Freddie Kitchens Made An Absolute Brain-Genius Move With The Browns Down Three Possessions
You know how every so often, we’ll get a story about Bill Belichick exploiting some obscure loophole in order to give the Patriots a better opportunity in a certain scenario? What Browns head coach Freddie Kitchens did in Sunday’s 27-13 loss to New England is the opposite of that....
I'm Not Saying The Broncos Put A Hit Out On Joe Flacco, But...
This is all pretty suspicious, no? After last week’s Denver Broncos loss, wide receiver Emmanuel Sanders said, among other criticisms, “We need to call better plays.” He then quickly disappeared off the team in a trade with San Francisco. Now, after the Broncos lost again on Sunday in a heartbreaker...
Matt Nagy Kind Of Did It To Himself This Time
Matt Nagy spent most of the offseason openly tormenting himself and his team about the double-doink kick that knocked the Bears out of last year’s playoffs. The stakes behind Sunday’s game-losing miss weren’t nearly as high—nobody is going to remember the Bears losing a game 17–16 in October, becaus...
Even When Aaron Rodgers Slips Up, He's Spectacular
Even with Patrick Mahomes stuck on the sideline, Sunday night’s game between the Chiefs and the Packers played out as an entertaining battle of offenses that kept matching each other blow for blow. But in a fight between the recently un-retired Matt Moore and the god Aaron Rodgers, it was only a mat...
The Falcons Are Toast And Dan Quinn Is Getting Crispy On Both Sides
The Falcons are a bad football team. As such, head coach Dan Quinn is expected to not be the head coach for very much longer. But when will Quinn be fired? Now, with a depressing 1-7 record and entering the bye? After the near-inevitable loss to the rival Saints in two weeks? Painlessly and in his s...