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White QB starts for Saints over more qualified Black QB, because 'glimpses'
If we’re being honest, this is some bullshit. ...
Kyler Murray & scrappy Cards follow the script, but lose the plot late vs. Seahawks
If you love narratives, and any producer of a sports broadcast most certainly does, Thursday night’s NFL game had the most easy-to-reach one imaginable. Fox got two teams at the top of their division standings, one the old stand-by in Seattle, the other the up-and-coming young team with the momentum...
Rudy Giuliani loves Philadelphia Eagles hoops
Perhaps the most delicious part of the attempted coup by the Trump administration is that Rudy Giuliani has evolved into a laughingstock....
What do Cal McNair’s comments today even mean? Who knows, just sell the Texans
It’s time for Cal McNair to sell the Houston Texans....
Dan Bilzerian talks trash to Doug Polk, could heads up challenge follow?
The most lucrative move of Doug Polk’s career may be dropping five buyins to Daniel Negreanu on Wednesday in his 25,000-hand heads-up challenge....
The NBA Draft was a welcome touch of comfort amid chaos
Traditions have been tested in this year of social distancing. There is absolutely no denying it — our society looks different today than we could have imagined a year ago. Remember groups? Remember parties? Remember crowds of crazed fans expressing their simultaneous hope and disgust at the way the...
The Top 10 NBA Draft classes of All Time
In honor of the 2020 NBA Draft on Wednesday, Deadspin is taking the time to rank the top ten drafts in NBA history....
It would be ‘so much awesome’ if baseball writers kept Curt Schilling out of Hall of Fame until he’s dead
Curt Schilling is on the Hall of Fame ballot for the ninth time, his next-to-last opportunity to be voted into Cooperstown by the Baseball Writers Association of America. He seems fairly likely to make it, having appeared on 70 percent of ballots a year ago, just 5 percent shy of the threshold for i...
Rip City Rising: Robert Covington is Portland’s missing piece
Portland, Oregon is a unique, special, weird, passionate, sleepy corner of our country. More famous for plaid shirts and craft beers than sports, that town has one lonely professional sport team to embrace, to which they have deeply enamored themselves. The Portland Trailblazers are woven into the f...
Bucks go on Holiday shopping spree for Giannis
Never mind that the Milwaukee Bucks are trading away draft picks in a plea for Giannis Antetokounmpo to stay, they’re also applying pressure to the rest of the Eastern Conference....
We don’t want you to have to watch the Bears either
Whenever the NFL schedule is released, we Bears fans cringe whenever there’s a national game listed. Not because the Bears’ record over history on Sunday or Monday night is pretty porous, though that’s part of it. And it’s not the slagging we’ll be in for by national analysts. We’re numb to that by ...
Week 10 Powerless Rankings: NFL's race to the bottom intensifies
It’s about that time once again....
NFC East looks worse than cafeteria chicken nuggets, Hopkins sons Bills DBs, and Wilson drops out of MVP race
Another week, another NFL Sunday is in the books....
Tua Time has Miami rolling
Week 10's matchup between the Fins and Chargers was highlighted by the two rookie quarterbacks squaring off against one another. ...
Sunday Night Football: Naked in the rain
The optics of this NFL season have already been weird and an indictment of the decision to have a season at all. Whether it’s empty stands or, even worse, quarter-filled ones, something has been off about watching football all season. It’s a constant reminder just of where everything is, and how it ...
What the Heck? Sixers honcho airballs with Boathouse Row jersey, 'blue collar' rip
Sixers President Chris Heck placed a Joel Embiid-sized 17 sneaker in his mouth when he was talking up the Sixers new uniforms with the Uni Watch website....
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Alabama’s new Senator-Coach Tuberville doesn’t know the three branches of government [eyeroll emoji]
I can’t believe I’m typing this, but the people of Alabama elected a college football coach as their next senator, Tommy Tuberville....
Houston Texans baffle NFL again with firing of PR star Amy Palcic
The Houston Texans have been a mess the past few years, but recently the bandages have been ripped off: There is no hiding the ugliness anymore....
Emily Harrington becomes first woman to climb El Capitan’s Golden Gate in one day
You may feel inundated with stories of climbers accomplishing never-before-done feats at Yosemite’s El Capitan. You’ve seen “Free Solo” win an Oscar for Alex Hannold’s ropeless ascent of the Freerider route. There was “The Dawn Wall,” which tracked Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson’s free-climb of t...
Bucks’ Sterling Brown becomes latest police brutality victim to receive a settlement
Now that things are starting to unwind from the 2020 presidential election, our attention to the pressing matters confronting this country can’t waver. ...