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Brett Favre loses another one late
It’s kind of adorable, the way Brett Favre thinks he’s helping. It’s always been adorable. The way that Favre took the “ol’ backcountry gunslinger” label to heart and really thought he was the nameless stranger riding in, pulling his jacket collar up, to save the town from the black-hatted sheriff. ...
Here’s how Charles Johnson’s GOP candidates of choice fared yesterday
In September, a Deadspin analysis of Charles Johnson’s political donations showed that the owner of the San Francisco Giants had given $1.7 million to Republican causes in 2020 alone, including donations to 46 individual candidates....
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....
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...
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 ...
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...
WTF Justin Turner
If you turned off the TV, put down your phone, and went to bed after the Dodgers won their first title since 1988, you missed the drama that will forever mark this weird, neutral-site World Series, at the end of this weird, pandemic-altered baseball season, in this weird, hellish year....
Blake Leeper is breaking Oscar Pistorius' records, but Olympic gatekeepers don't want him to compete
Blake Leeper was born with no legs, and he’s one of the fastest humans on earth....
Baker Mayfield needs to beat a real damn team before crowning him
It’s Trash Talking Tuesday and today I’m trashing all those who, somehow, believe Browns’ quarterback Baker Mayfield has arrived because he beat the lowly Bengals - again....
Week 7 Powerless Rankings: Did your favorite NFL team make the bottom 5?
After another week of football in the National Football League, we have had the pleasure of seeing some outstanding teams battle....
Momentum is tomorrow’s starting pitcher and other drugs
It’s one of the oldest cliches in baseball, which means it’s one of the oldest cliches in American society. But it happens to be true. Whatever happens in the previous game doesn’t really carry over. We just assign that after the fact when it fits to try and make sense of a game that rarely doesn’t ...
After the Dodgers' latest choke, here are some other guys who absolutely sucked at fielding
In appreciation of the Los Angeles Dodgers losing Game 4 of the 2020 World Series in spectacular fashion, reminding us all that defense — bad defense — can decide baseball games, we thought we’d take a look back at the worst fielders we’ve ever seen....
Sunday Scaries: the Week 7 bets you should avoid
We’re almost halfway through the NFL regular season and the Sunday’s are still scary — and not for betting reasons....
Athletes' calls for voting reform were justified. Do better, America
My Twitter feed today is filled with photos, videos, and reactions to super-duper long lines on the first day of early voting in my native New York and I am just overwhelmed with …...
Sit down, jerk — the flag doesn’t have cancer
The sentiment has been echoed a million times on the political right, so let’s just go with the latest one, which earned one-time “Punky QB” Jim McMahon some kudos from The Federalist and revoked any punk cred he ever had:...