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Jim Nantz wants CBS to pay him like someone with a personality
In some ways you can’t begrudge Jim Nantz for asking for the bag. He probably looks to his right most Sundays, sees the Jerry Lewis soundboard that is Tony Romo, and figures A) Just by having to sit next to that overrated, handsome gas bag for four hours a week is worth $17 million a year. And B) If...
Sunday Scaries: The Week 11 bets to avoid
I regret to inform you that the Jacksonville Jaguars did not make the cut for this week’s Sunday Scaries. Of course they’re not winning games, but they’re covering. So they seem… reliable?...
Deadspin Fixes the Royals: Helping Kansas City help itself
Five years ago, the Kansas City Royals were world champions. It was not a fluke or an accident, but the payoff for implementing a strategy that allowed them to compete despite not having the resources of the Yankees and Red Sox of the world....
Easily, Lamar Jackson’s feat is better than Patrick Mahomes’
Two of the best and brightest quarterbacks in the NFL made news on Sunday....
After escaping from the Jets, who can blame Le’Veon Bell for wanting to win?
It’s not even fair at this point....
Week 5 takeaways: Another coach is gone, the Niners got smacked like they ate an edible, and the Boys’ D is as bad as Trump’s COVID team
After a crazy week in the NFL that saw more players testing positive for COVID-19, a mass reshuffling of games, and coaches getting the boot, here we are again with our weekly NFL takeaways. ...
Deadspin Over/Under Bet of the Week: Hail to this Chiefs total
Over/Under: 54.5...
Sunday Scaries: The Week 5 bets you should avoid
Welcome to another installment of the Sunday Scaries where NFL Sundays are becoming, fittingly, scarier....
The NFL must start handing out forfeits
It’s clear by now that the league is winging it....
It’s all going wrong and the NFL’s malice could cost lives
The recklessness from the NFL is mind-boggling. ...
The Texans need to hire a Black head coach, and his name is Eric Bieniemy
The first points of the 2020 NFL season were scored by the Houston Texans when David Johnson scored a 19-yard touchdown on the ground....
Lamar Jackson is not on Patrick Mahomes' level, because nobody is
Lamar Jackson and the Ravens just aren’t good enough....
Which undefeated NFL teams are gigantic frauds? Let’s investigate
It’s never too early to overreact to NFL win totals....
Chiefs Deploy 'New Technology' for Andy Reid's Foggy Face Shield
Chiefs Head Coach Andy Reid will be rocking his famous COVID-19 protective face shield again in week 2 against the Chargers. ...
Fans Being Racist Is Nothing New
For as long as we can remember, sports fans have been on the wrong side of history....
Fans at Arrowhead Can Go Kick Rocks
I don’t know what we expected....
The Deadspin 2020 NFL Previews, AFC West: The Home of the Champs and a New Football Town in Vegas
For many football fans, the AFC West standings are already a foregone conclusion....
Patrick Mahomes, Son of Veteran MLB Pitcher, Becomes Part Owner of Royals
Patrick Mahomes, the starting quarterback for the Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs, has become the youngest owner in MLB history, joining a new ownership group of the Kansas City Royals....
2020 AL Central Preview
“Flyover Country” in the American League contains history’s greatest home-run squad (Minnesota, somehow), perhaps the league’s most exciting team….and then three teams not even trying. This is pretty much the norm in baseball these days, a division that has one or two teams fighting over actual priz...