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NLRB Rules That Northwestern Football Players Can't Unionize
The Northwestern football team’s attempt to unionize has reached its end. Today, the National Labor Relations Board overruled a previous decision by NLRB’s Chicago district that gave the players the right to unionize. The national office’s ruling on the issue is final, and the Northwestern football ...
Patrick Kane's Lawyer Is Arguing With People On Facebook
Patrick Kane’s attorney Paul Cambria felt compelled today to reply to a Facebook post about the news that an off-duty Buffalo cop served as Patrick Kane’s driver the night he allegedly raped a woman at his home. The thread’s on the private Facebook page of Buffalo-based blogger Alan Bedenko; a reade...
Why Your Team Sucks 2015: Houston Texans
Some people are fans of the Houston Texans. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Houston Texans. This 2015 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here....
Matt Barnes Implies He Might Be Dating Rihanna, Gets Crushed By Rihanna
One of the lamest things a guy can do when confronted with a question such as, “Hey, man, what’s up with you and [woman you’ve been seen hanging out with]?” is bashfully dance around the question in a way that suggests that, yes, there is indeed something going on with that. NBA player Matt Barnes r...
Dutee Chand's Victory is Not A Victory For Fairness
The Court of Arbitration for Sports, the final word on disputes in Olympic sports, threw out the baby with the bathwater. I’m talking about the recent CAS decision to allow Indian sprinter Dutee Chand (above) to compete again. Chand was banned from competition last year because she is hyperandrogeni...
Percy Harvin Explains Why He Beat Up Two Seahawks Teammates
The Buffalo News has a mini-profile of new Bills receiver Percy Harvin, the point of which is to show Harvin as a man at a crossroads. Will he go on being an alleged locker-room cancer, or will a fresh start in Buffalo be what he needs to finally reach his potential? That’s all worth considering, bu...
How To Run A Fantasy Football League Without Making Everyone Hate You
Because your friends are lazy and untrustworthy, you were somehow the best choice to run this year’s fantasy football league, which means you’ll set up the draft, oversee trades, handle money, and use the internet an hour or two more per week than usual. Congratulations. Now, you just have to tackle...
John Harbaugh Thinks Donald Trump Has Some Good Ideas On Immigration
Ravens coach John Harbaugh was having a normal, boring press conference after Saturday’s practice. He talked about the team, about its first preseason game. He got on the subject of NFL officials, and how he thinks it’s a shame that they don’t work training camps to get ready for the season. And the...
Golf Is In A Very Good Place
We have to resist the hype and hyperbole, because we’ve given in so many times before and been burned: but 2015 really does feel like the year golf moved beyond Tiger Woods....
Bubba Watson Tried To Lawyerball Some Ants
On 5 yesterday, Bubba Watson’s ball came to rest against an anthill. That led to a genial discussion with a rules official over whether Watson was allowed to take a drop. The official classified the anthill as a “loose impediment”; Watson countered that ants, technically, are “burrowing animals.” Bo...
Bad Bullfighter Gored Again
A few months back we covered torero Jiménez Fortes, who suffered a gruesome and grave wound after being gored in the neck. Fortes returned to the ring this weekend in Vitigudino and once again ended up in the hospital after being, that’s right, gored in the neck....
Jason Day Wins PGA Championship, Is Probably Still Crying
Jason Day held off Jordan Spieth to win this weekend’s PGA Championship at Whistling Straits, seizing his first major after finishing three times as a runner-up—and doing it in record-setting fashion....
Deadspin Up All Night: Lost In The City
Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. It was a good summer....
Jets Tell Geno Smith To Chill With The Football Throwing
Geno Smith is supposed to be at home, resting up his recently repaired jaw, doing nothing, and resting afterwards. Instead, the New York Post caught him tossing a football around with a friend. No big deal right? You don’t throw with your jaw? ...
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Tim Tebow Scores A Touchdown
Tim Tebow is playing football again for the first time since 2013. The Eagles’ fourth-string QB got to the promised land late in the fourth quarter of Philadelphia’s 36-10 preseason win over the Indianapolis Colts. He finished 6/12 for 69 yards today. Tebow also got sacked three times for 28 yards a...
Quit Smoking Weed Around Novak Djokovic
Novak Djokovic is fed up, man. Right after he took the first set from Jeremy Chardy in yesterday’s Rogers Cup semifinal in Montreal, Djokovic complained to the official that he could smell someone smoking the devil’s lettuce in the arena....