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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Says Some Dumb Shit About Colin Kaepernick
It is, let me say here, quite weird to project your own beliefs and aspirations onto an octogenarian Supreme Court justice and expect it to never backfire. But woke Twitter folk hero Ruth Bader Ginsburg, center of a highly marketable personality cult, has some gross things to say about Colin Kaepern...

Athletes To Trump: What Kind Of Locker Room Are You Spending Time In?
It doesn’t take a locker room to make shitty men talk like shitty men amongst themselves, but at last night’s debate, Donald Trump doubled down on his claim that his 2005 comments that he used his wealthy status to sexually assault women by grabbing them by the pussy were “just locker room talk.” He...

Skip Bayless Is Gaining On ESPN In A Ratings War That Doesn't Matter<em></em>
ESPN’s flagship shoutfest, First Take, has long and rightly been reviled for degrading everyone and everything it touches. Until co-host Skip Bayless departed earlier this year, that didn’t seem to matter at all to its loyal core audience, which happily tuned in each day no matter how repulsive or j...

NFL Warns Teams Not To Post Highlights Online, Then Posts Lots Of Highlights Online
The NFL issued a stern warning to its 32 teams last week that they should limit the amount of original content they create for social media using NFL footage. Teams, the league reminded them, are essentially restricted to reposting highlights the NFL has already posted on its official social media a...

Female High School Kicker Drops The Boom On Kick Returner
It’s been a good season for kickers knocking the hell out of kick returners. Joining the parade today is Kelly Macnamara, a kicker for North Penn High School in Pennsylvania....

I Want To Hug And Kiss Derek Carr's Touchdown Passes
There are a lot of ways for a quarterback to become famous. You can be the crazy gunslinger; you can be the big-brained maestro; you can be the giant fuck who is impossible to sack; you can be the, uh, guy who ran into a butt. Through the first few weeks of this season, Raiders quarterback Derek Car...

CEO Of USA Track & Field Accused Of Wildly Excessive Spending
Max Siegel, CEO of USA Track and Field, is enjoying first class travel, private jets, luxury hotels, and $1.7million in compensation—seven times what an average CEO at a similarly sized nonprofit makes—according to the Washington Post. This is all part of a “culture change” he and USATF board member...

Report: Giants OT Ereck Flowers Shoved ESPN Reporter
It is unclear exactly why Giants second-year offensive tackle Ereck Flowers has it out for ESPN.com Giants beat writer Jordan Raanan. But he totally does....

Please, Invite Us To Your Manipulative Off-The-Record Cocktail Parties
This weekend, The Intercept published leaked documents from the Clinton campaign detailing cozy, lavish “off-the-record” events with top political journalists. This is an outrage. (That we weren’t invited). ...

Mike McCoy Is Running Out Of Ways To Lose
Let it never be said that the Chargers lose boring. Dating back to the start of last season, 13 of San Diego’s 16 losses have come by a single score. They’re 1-4 this year, all four losses coming after blowing second half leads. This is not a team that loses so totally their fans are free to turn of...

Odell Beckham Jr. Scores, Apologizes To Kicking Net
Giants receiver Odell Beckham Jr. boiled over and smacked a kicking net in Week 3 after Skins cornerback Josh Norman got under his skin. (The kicking net smacked back.) After scoring his first touchdown of the season tonight, Beckham made amends with the equipment by giving it a hug....

Donald Trump Couldn’t Stop Sniffing ... Again<em></em><em></em>
If you’ll recall, during the last presidential debate, Donald Trump spent a good portion of his mic time sniffing up a storm for, well, indeterminate reasons. And tonight was no different. As he yelled about not saying the thing he said and throwing Hillary into prison, our boy Don was sniffing....

Curt Schilling Makes A Solid Point
Given all we’ve seen tonight, it’s good to see a straight shooter just giving us the true facts....

Blue Jays Sweep Rangers With Extra-Inning Walk-Off
The Blue Jays are headed back to the ALCS for the second straight year after completing a sweep of the Rangers with a 7-6 win on Sunday night. It was their first postseason sweep in franchise history....

Grover Norquist Rages At Debate: What About The Motherfucking Vapers?<em></em><em></em>
We know where Donald Trump stands on pussy grabbing (for). We know where Hillary Clinton stands on drinking water (against). What we don’t know, however, is where either candidate stands on the biggest issue of the election: Vapers’ rights....
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Trump: "I Don't Like [Autocratic Syrian War Criminal Bashar Al-] Assad At All, But ..."
At the end of a long, rambling answer nominally about the ongoing humanitarian disaster in Aleppo, Donald Trump just praised Bashar al-Assad—one of the principal perpetrators of that disaster—for, in his words, “fighting ISIS.” ...

Donald Trump Just Told Hillary Clinton He Would Throw Her In Jail<em></em><em></em>
When asked by Martha Raddatz to describe exactly when his behavior supposedly changed for the better, Trump decided to answer a different question. What the imaginary question was is anyone’s guess, but the answer was, apparently, that there has never been “anyone in the history of politics who has ...

Donald Trump On Pussy-Grabbing Tape: "No, I Didn't Say That"
In the very beginning of tonight’s debate, Anderson Cooper asked him about the tape’s released on Friday when Trump stated that he likes to grab women “by the pussy.” Trump’s response: ...

You Can Watch The Presidential Debate Live Right Here
Here, via our Facebook Live feed, is tonight’s presidential debate....