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As First K.C. Fan Tests Positive, We're Faced with Growing Power of the Surveillance State
Super Bowl champion Kansas City was one of two NFL teams, along with Jacksonville, to allow fans to attend their Week 1 game. The official attendance was 15,895 to see Patrick Mahomes and Co. dismantle the Houston Texans last Thursday night....
Hey Big Ten, How About Daily COVID Testing for My Kid?
Well, the Big Ten finally cracked....
Well-Fed Nitwits Stroke Egos, Accomplish Nothing in NCAA Sham Senate Hearing
The U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education Labor & Pensions convened today for a hearing on college athlete compensation. Among the many babbling voices in the room, player advocacy was scarce....
You Can throw Tom Brady Out With the Trash
It’s Trash Talking Tuesday and today I’m trashing Bucs’ QB Tom Brady....
The Conversation Around Kneeling in Sports Changed When Meyers Leonard and Jonathan Isaac Stood
This isn’t a column about kneeling....
What You Need to Know Ahead of 120th U.S. Open
The 2020 U.S. Open will be played for the sixth time at Winged Foot Golf Club in Mamaroneck, New York this week. The tournament offers a different kind of New York Fall Classic, if you will, and one that everyone will be forced to watch from home, as spectators are still not allowed on site. I will ...
Why It Doesn't Matter if Baker Mayfield Kneels
Let’s get a few things straight off the jump. ...
Dallas Is Mediocre, Tom Brady Is Old, and the Eagles Are Folding: Our Sunday Takeaways
The NFL season is here....
Fans Being Racist Is Nothing New
For as long as we can remember, sports fans have been on the wrong side of history....
Peyton Manning Creates Scholarship For Students at Six HBCUs
Future Hall of Fame quarterback Peyton Manning will sponsor six endowment scholarships at historically Black colleges and universities in Louisiana and Tennessee through his charity foundation....
Florida Man Joins Too Many Other Florida People at Florida St. Football Game in Obviously Too Crowded Stadium
Yes, college football is back, and so are fans packing the stands… Or at least in the Sunshine State. ...
NFL's Cluelessness on BLM Exposes Fake Team Unity & Not Caring a Lick for Players' Communities
If the NFL owners and front office thought that adding Lift Every Voice and Sing to the pre-game program would mollify more players than it put off fans, they were likely wrong on both counts....
LeBron, Athletes Wielding Peashooters in Gunfight — Need Help to Fix Rigged Game
It’s hard to win a game when the rules were made for you to lose. ...
I Got Some Trash For all You Giannis Haters
It’s Trash Talking Tuesday (The Thursday Edition)....
Islanders Learning There Just Might Not Be Anything They Can Do
Buzzer-beaters are supposed to be the territory of the NBA’s Orlando bubble, but the Tampa Bay Lightning moved the phenomenon 2800 miles to the Northwest on Wednesday night. Nikita Kucherov capped off the Bolts’ best offensive foray of the night by scoring off Ryan McDonagh’s cross-ice pass with jus...
Orange Skies in Bay Area Just the Latest Sign That End Times Are Here
The skies in northern California right now can best be described as burnt sienna, or something that you’d expect to find swirled in the whipped cream of your pumpkin spice latte....
NBA Strike Will be Meaningless if Players Don’t Start Voting
What’s next?...
The Deadspin 2020 NFL Previews, NFC North: The 'No One Else Wanted to Preview This Stale Division' Division
As usual, the road to . . . well, maybe not the Super Bowl, but at least the playoffs goes through Green Bay. And while Aaron Rodgers and the Packers aren’t as dominant as they once were, despite going 13-3 in Matt LaFleur’s first season as a head coach, no one else in the division has really steppe...
The Deadspin 2020 NFL Previews, NFC East: Can Anyone Break Up This Two-Horse Town?
There was a time not too long ago when the NFC East was considered one of the most competitive divisions in football. Over the past decade, the division has had two Super Bowl winners (Eagles, Giants), exciting Washington teams and the Dallas Cowboys. But the days of parity in the NFC East are over....