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What the NFL's postseason expansion talks suggest

The NFL jumped into the flying-by-their-ass pool Monday by reportedly discussing expanding this year’s playoffs to 16 teams. This coming after they expanded it to 14 already, and they may just jump over that this January without ever trying it....

Week 8 Powerless Rankings: Poor Trevor Lawrence

Another Sunday of NFL football has concluded....

Tua's first win, Chargers throw up on themselves, and helmet-punching Bears are the worst 5-3 team ever

It’s hard to believe that we are already halfway through the 2020 NFL season....

Lamar Jackson still can't pass big test, while Steelers are incapable of failing even one

While much of the nation was stuck watching Colts-Lions (and got to see Nyheim Hines’ roundoff backflip with a full twist, twice!) the marquee matchup of the day yesterday was between the Steelers and the Ravens....

The Chargers have become artists

Deadspin Argues About Stuff: Rating Tua's debut

Dustin Foote: Alright Donovan, Tua Tagovailoa just won his first start against the Rams in Miami. We argued about whether or not the Dolphins should start Tua when Miami made the announcement two weeks ago. I wanted him in, you wanted him out. With the win, did coach Brian Flores make the right call...

Nyheim Hines’ badass spin move for TD isn’t even the most impressive part [UPDATED]

Update - HE DID IT AGAIN:...

Rutgers laterals their way to, well, a huge loss after crazy 'touchdown' is called back

There should be a rule in sports that if a play is so awesome, you won’t see anything like it for the rest of the decade, then it counts. No replay review. No overturns. No complaining from the other team, because they know how cool it was, too....

Deadspin Presents: Top 10 presidential endorsements from sports stars, Part II: Biden backers

It’s rare for athletes to openly advocate for a change in leadership in their day-to-day lives, because it usually means getting branded as a “coach killer,” or an excuse-maker. But when it comes to politics, it’s different. There’s the choice of either the person in charge, or the person running to...

Sue Bird & Megan Rapinoe's engagement is just what we needed

This has been a long, exhausting, Zamboni fire of a year. And a month, for that matter. And a week....

Mets fans dream of big-bucks battle with Bombers after sale to mega billionaire Steve Cohen is approved

As a lifelong Mets fan, I’ve been dreaming of this day for some time....

The 10 worst pitching changes in World Series history

Kevin Cash isn’t the only manager to blow a World Series game courtesy of a bad bullpen decision. A number of pitchers suffered the same fate as the Rays’ Ian Snell. Here’s a reminder of costly mistakes committed on baseball’s biggest stage....

Coyotes sniff out kudos for renouncing racist bully, deserve howls of disgust for picking him at all

The Arizona Coyotes would like to think that renouncing the rights to their fourth-round pick Mitchell Miller, after it became public that four years ago he had been convicted of bullying a developmentally challenged Black classmate and calling him racial slurs — to a disgusting degree — shines them...

For A.J. Hinch, looks like crime does pay as Tigers' gig looms

While White Sox fans, and the actual White Sox for a good portion of the time, have always considered the Cubs their main rival, the way baseball works is that your real enemy resides in the division. That’s who you compete with for playoff spots after all. So while the Sox were having their owner e...

Trevor Lawrence tests positive for COVID-19 as this all continues to go terribly

The biggest man on campus has COVID-19....

White Sox fill manager slot by exhuming corpse of Tony La Russa

It is impossible to accurately describe how confounding the White Sox hiring of Tony La Russa as manager is. That adjective is not even close to properly illustrating the shock, confusion, and anger of just about anyone around the club today. It’s like staring at a car crash, but both vehicles were ...

Players can catch COVID safely? Tell that nonsense to Emmanuel Sanders

In case you have forgotten, this virus is no joke....

Giants left with only four O-Linemen after Will Hernandez’s COVID diagnosis sends rest home

When you hear the phrase “history repeats itself,” you usually think of some time in the distant past being relived — not last week. ...

NWSL dramatically expands TV audience as women’s sports leagues see viewership growth

When we talk about “sports ratings” being down, let’s start adding a “men’s” before the phrase....

Baseball’s winter of cost-savings discontent begins as cheapskate Cards cut Wong

It used to be the hot stove, and fans used to get excited about it right after the last out of the World Series. A ray of hope, provided by the wishful thinking that it could be your team ending the season on a podium with Rob Manfred as he gets booed next year. But in a preview of what’s to come ar...