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Here Are The Most Interesting Guys Of The AL Playoffs

You may have checked out of baseball once your team’s season turned into a trash heap, but that’s okay! You’ve come back just in time for the best month of the year, as all the highest-stakes games with top-quality talent begin. Here’s a guide to the AL players you need to pay attention to as the po...

Here Are Jets And Patriots Fans Booing The National Anthem [Update]

National anthem demonstrations became the story at NFL stadiums around the country on Sunday. But at Texans-Patriots in Foxboro, Mass., at Dolphins-Jets in East Rutherford, N.J., and at Raiders-Washington in Landover, Md.,* the players who protested were met with jeers and boos from thousands of fan...

Tom Brady Clowned By A Jadeveon Clowney Pick-Six

For most defensive linemen, an interception return is a recipe for some hilarious slapstick, but Jadeveon Clowney sprints right past all your #fatguyTD jokes. In the second quarter of the Texans game against the Patriots, a blind-side hit on Tom Brady turned into a gift for Clowney, who swiftly took...

Idiot On The Field Slips Several Tackles Before Being Detained By His Own Lack Of A Vertical

Here’s a dipshit invading the field in Houston tonight, as is the Idiot’s way. He dodges a few tackles but finds his path blocked by the very low right field wall; it’s still too tall for his limited leaping ability (though it looks like that might be an usher playing defense on him). ...

Houston NBC Station Cuts Off End Of Texans Game To Report Result Of Texans Game

Fans in Houston watching last night’s Texans-Bengals game on KPRC missed its wacky final play—one punctuated by local hero J.J. Watt demolishing a poor offensive lineman—because the NBC station cut off the end of the broadcast in a rush to report the game’s not-yet-final score....

The Final Play Of Tonight's NFL Game, As Called By Wrestling Legend "J.R." Jim Ross

Tonight’s Thursday Night Football game between the Texans and Bengals was, with a few exceptions, your typical awful weeknight NFL action. The Aussie rules-style final play, and its equally down-under level game-ending tackle by J.J. Watt, though, deserved our closer attention....

Mike Fiers Suspended Five Games For Throwing At Luis Valbuena's Head In Retaliation For Bat Flip

Mike Fiers had a really bad first inning yesterday against the Angels—five runs allowed, including a two-run shot from Luis Valbuena, who had the audacity to get a little excited and flip his bat. This did not please Fiers. He expressed this displeasure by throwing at Valbuena’s head. That backfired...

Tom Savage Is Going Back To The Bench And His Agent Isn't Happy

Against truly stiff competition, Tom Savage took home our Bad QB Performance of the Week award for Week 1. It looks like he will not get to defend his title; it’s being reported, though not confirmed by the team, that Deshaun Watson will get the start for the Texans against Cincinnati tonight....

It's 2017 But We Still Got Fresh, Hot Mike Trout Takes

Rationalizing why Mike Trout is bad and your guy is the undisputed MVP is an experience that every American League fan will go through at some point over Trout’s career, but tonight on the Houston Astros’ broadcast, the announcers started really grasping at straws....

Can A New-Look Houston Live Up To The Past Two Years?

Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...

Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week: Tom Savage Gets The Hell Out Of Here

Welcome to Bad Quarterback Performance Of The Week, a recurring feature in which we celebrate the worst quarterback play the NFL has to offer....

Deshaun Watson Off The Bench Was Better Than Any Version Of Tom Savage

Any self-respecting playoff team should be able to count a home game against the Jaguars as an easy win, but today the Houston Texans suffered a comprehensive 29-7 defeat to Blake Bortles and his traditional punching bags....

The DeShaun Watson Era Has Begun

NCAA Bylaws Are Cramping Kelvin Sampson's Hurricane Harvey Relief Drive

In the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, University of Houston head coach Kelvin Sampson used social media to solicit donations from coaching colleagues to be distributed to families affected by the devastation in Houston. Specifically, what he wanted was clothing—new t-shirts and shoes, some...

Tilman Fertitta Will Buy The Houston Rockets For $2.2 Billion

Houston Rockets owner Leslie Alexander announced in July that he was putting the team up for sale, and a month and a half later, he’s found a buyer. This morning, Tilman Fertitta confirmed that he’d purchased the team, and ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski reported that he did so for $2.2 billion. That’s th...

Curt Schilling Needs Help Getting Aid Supplies To Houston

This past week Curt Schilling organized a collection of cash and supplies to be transported to Houston, where such things are urgently, desperately needed. Schilling provided a trailer and would be doing the transporting himself, and organized volunteers to collect and sort and pack and guard donati...

Reports: Justin Verlander Is Heading To The Astros After All

In the hour leading up to tonight’s midnight deadline to acquire players for use on a postseason roster, it didn’t sound like the heavily rumored Justin Verlander trade between the Tigers and Astros would be coming to fruition. Whether due to Verlander’s no-trade clause or something else, the deadli...

Jonathon Simmons Details Escape From Hurricane Harvey

Jonathon Simmons, who spent two productive seasons with the San Antonio Spurs before signing with the Orlando Magic this summer, is a Houston native, and he was in town when Hurricane Harvey hit. Like millions of other South Texas residents, he was forced to evacuate his home due to the flooding cau...

Why Your Team Sucks 2017: Houston Texans<em></em>

Some people are fans of the Houston Texans. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Houston Texans. This 2017 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here....

Astros Play In Florida, Which No One Wanted

It didn’t look or feel much like a home game for the Astros. Before an announced crowd of 3,485 in St. Petersburg, Fla., each of whom had paid $10 for general admission, the Astros donned a first-time uniform combination: road gray pants and dark blue alternate tops usually worn for batting practice...