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Ryquell Armstead, 23-year-old running back, sidelined for season with COVID complications
After spending a rookie season behind Leonard Fournette in 2019, Ryquell Armstead was supposed to contend for the Jacksonville Jaguars’ starting job. Yesterday, ESPN reported that the second-year back will miss the remainder of the season due to COVID....
Daniel Jones brings us all together with less threatening incompetence than debate
There wasn’t much to choose from on Thursday night, that is if you didn’t opt to stream a show you hadn’t gotten to or finished yet to shut out reality. I hear the new season of Fargo is good. If you were looking for live entertainment, your choices boiled down to which version of two balloon-handed...
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NFL teams lusting after lowlife Antonio Brown is disgraceful [Updated]
Updated on Friday, Oct. 23 at 7:40 p.m.: According to ESPN, Antonio Brown reached an agreement with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers Friday night. The troubled receiver reunites with Tom Brady, and is expected to make his 2020 debut in Week 9....
How much should Cubs fans care about their team's horrendous owners?
Todd Ricketts is a petulant child, and he’s mad because his awful brother, Tom, gets all the attention as chairman of the Chicago Cubs. Todd and his sister, Laura, also run the franchise, but Todd doesn’t care about Laura. He just wants you to know that he’s one of the people who owns the team....
Deadspin Argues About Stuff: Dooley and Foote beef over Tua Time, rookie QBs
Dustin Foote: Alright Donovan, Tua Tagovailoa was just named the starter for the Miami Dolphins. They’ll face the Rams on November 1st after their bye week. Do you like the move to put Tua in now, just under halfway through the season?...
Deadspin NFL Over/Under Bet of the Week: Bearing down on this under
Over/Under: 45...
Yale hockey follows strict protocols, still sees 18/19 players test positive for COVID-19
A COVID-19 outbreak at Yale University began early in the week, as six men’s hockey players tested positive for the virus, spurring the school to revert from Phase II of its virus protocol back to Phase 0....
White Sox should pass on early-bird special Tony La Russa in hiring a new manager
Were Connie Mack and Casey Stengel not available?...
The NFL keeps following Trump into the abyss — first with Kaepernick then with COVID
We need to take a quick trip back in time to the year 2017. Something important happened then that explains, in part, the limp response of the NFL to the pandemic....
Careless tweet by Pedro Gomez set up Zack Greinke to look like a jackass
The Astros didn’t fade out last night, which is what most of the baseball world wanted. A word on Zack Greinke, who gutted out six innings when his team needed it most after what has been a rocky postseason for him. ...
Actually, it's LeBron who's the G.O.A.T.
I want to state right at the top I utterly abhor this debate. ...
The NFL is going along with local guidelines to COVID, but will allow the Saints to switch local guidelines
It’s pretty easy to picture Roger Goodell staring blankly as the Saints told him about this, they surely didn’t ask, like a parent who has just completely given up and is letting the kids ransack the supermarket while they head to the liquor aisle:...
Everything is fine in college football, as Big 10 will no doubt find out this month
Welcome to the shitshow already in progress, Big 10....
Trump bullied the NFL for years and now they're both being bullied by Covid-19
It’s always been about checks and balances....
Players are terrified of COVID, but don’t want to speak up for fear of angering the NFL
They are terrified, and it’s understandable....
MLS has been a scheduling mess for months, and the NFL might not do any better
While the NFL has had to become Tetris masters to rearrange their schedule in accommodating even more positive tests from both Tennessee and New England, MLS has been doing this dance for a while. And it also may be an indication that there won’t be a light at the end of the tunnel for the NFL....
Rangers win race against no one to sign the worst player available in NHL free agency
Henrik Lundqvist, bought out last week by the New York Rangers, found a new home as soon as NHL free agency opened up on Friday, joining the Washington Capitals on a one-year deal to try to chase the Stanley Cup that eluded the 38-year-old for his whole career on Broadway....
Dumb football players are going to ruin football
Athletes hate being called dumb jocks, but sometimes the title fits....
Keep your pants on, Dolphins fans: It's not Tua Time yet
NFL teams don’t usually make a point to announce their starting quarterback every week. Unless your team’s signal caller is injured, or you’re the Bears, there is really no need to notify the fanbase about keeping the starting QB on the first string. ...
Why aren’t NHL goalies drafted like NFL quarterbacks?
The NHL Draft will commence tonight, with Alexis Lafreniere the lockdown No. 1 pick for the New York Rangers. He will be the first winger to be taken first overall since Nail Yakupov eight years ago. Which makes sense, as a winger falls behind centers and defensemen on the list of priorities for tea...