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Here's Some Satisfying Sports Media Beef
Who’s hungry for some fuckin’ sports media drama? What if I told you it involved one writer misquoting another and a sassy Bill Simmons tweet? Pull up a chair, friend, and get a plate of this hot beef....
Josh Rosen Is Allowed To Have Opinions<em></em>
The run-up to the NFL Draft is a minefield of misinformation, replete with scouts, execs, and NFL information brokers scrambling to outflank each other and throw up various smokescreens. It is also, simultaneously and hilariously, a realm of comically serious and idiotically wised-up analysis, which...
Christian McCaffrey And Friends Helped Save A Hiker's Life
Christian McCaffrey and some friends went for a hike this past weekend outside of Denver, and their pleasant afternoon out nearly turned tragic after they witnessed 72-year-old Dan Smoker Sr. fall roughly 20 feet onto a rock. “I had never seen anything quite like that in my life as far as the traum...
Texans Deny Report That They Won't Sign Free Agents Who Protested During National Anthem
The Texans are refuting a Houston Chronicle report from this weekend that said the team wasn’t interested in signing free agents who’d protested during the national anthem: ...
Okay, Now Shaquem Griffin Is Running Like A Wide Receiver
Yesterday one-handed UCF linebacker Shaquem Griffin was conquering the bench press. Today he ran the 40-yard-dash in a blistering 4.38 seconds, the fastest time for a linebacker at the combine in 15 years:...
One-Handed Linebacker Shaquem Griffin Has No Problem With The Bench Press<em></em>
Here’s Central Florida linebacker Shaquem Griffin powering through 20 reps on the bench press at the NFL Scouting Combine, one-handed. Griffin was born with a congenital condition that prevented his left hand from fully developing, but which obviously has not kept him from being a goddamn beast:...
NFL Makes Combine Pressers A Less Crappy Experience<em></em>
INDIANAPOLIS — Having Podium 1 framed by indicators for the shitter seemed appropriate and on brand. The NFL has since had a change of heart, however. Deadspin will continue to update this developing story as circumstances are warranted....
For Reporters, The NFL Combine Can Be One Awkward Feeding Frenzy
INDIANAPOLIS — “This is already a degrading experience.”...
Rich Rodriguez's Guide To Marriage: "Educate Her And Control Her Talk"
As part of the ongoing legal battle over claims that former Arizona football coach Rich Rodriguez serially harassed his assistant, Rodriguez’s legal team has released Arizona’s “Hideaway Book” of team rules from 2015. Rodriguez’s accuser said in her lawsuit that the Hideaway Book’s purpose was to “...
NFL Sets Up Combine Pressers In The Most Appropriate Spot
INDIANAPOLIS — Greetings from the bowels of the Indiana Convention Center, where the media sausage is churning its way through the 2018 NFL scouting combine. If you just got here and can’t find the shitter, make your way toward Podium 1, where Colts general manager Chris Ballard (pictured) has wrapp...
Ryan Shazier Won't Play In 2018, But He Still Wants To Play
Steelers GM Kevin Colbert said today that injured linebacker Ryan Shazier won’t play in 2018. “He knows that, and we know that, and we’re gonna continue to support him in his recovery,” Colbert said, adding that they will keep him on the roster next year. “We know that’s a challenge, ‘cause we’ll be...
Report: Gronk Feel Like Pawn In Game Of Life
Although Rob Gronkowski goes about his everyday life like an ageless high schooler, he’ll be 29 in May and has had a bunch of surgeries to his back and limbs. Add in his marketability and the fact that he’s already sealed up a Hall of Fame spot whenever he walks away from the NFL, and it’s not compl...
Report: Dez Caught It
The NFL’s competition committee is currently discussing possible changes to the league’s catch rule, which is commonly interpreted by replay officials throwing tea leaves and chicken bones against a wall. According to committee member and Giants owner John Mara, the group is in agreement that the ru...
Pizza And Football Announce Plans To Go Separate Ways, See Other Brands
The NFL’s stupid pizza wars have, at last, come to their natural conclusion. ...
Don't Try To Use Jalen Ramsey As Marketing Material
Since college football coaches can’t offer recruits the opportunity to earn real money, they often have to resort to wooing them with the promise of future earnings, which of course will only become available after submitting themselves to a few years of getting yelled at by sunburned men in polos. ...
Blake Bortles Gets One More Year To Prove He Doesn't Totally Suck<em></em>
Why on earth would the Jaguars sign the quarterback who has spent much of his four-year career doing shit like this—...
Jets LB Dylan Donahue Charged With DWI After Driving Wrong Way In Lincoln Tunnel, Hitting Bus
Jets rookie linebacker Dylan Donahue was arrested early Monday morning after he crashed his car into a bus while driving the wrong way in the Lincoln Tunnel, according to Port Authority officials. Donahue crashed into the bus around 2:00 a.m. this morning, and four passengers were injured in the cra...
Marshall Football Player Dies From Gunshot Wound At New Year's Party
Marshall defensive tackle Larry Aaron died today, nearly two months after he was shot in the spine at a New Year’s Eve party. He was 19....
Sure, Fine, It's "Dunk On Bill Polian" Week
It’s February and there are no sports going on right now except for hockey and various Olympic events that Americans are eating shit in. If not for these circumstances, it’s likely nobody would care too much about what Bill Polian is saying on TV. But we don’t have anything better to do, so let’s ro...