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Mike Zimmer Says Sam Bradford Is Both Fine And Out For A While
A week after he started the Vikings’ season with a 27-for-32, 346-yard, three-touchdown performance in a 29-19 win over the Saints, Sam Bradford was inactive in Minnesota’s 26-9 loss to the Steelers today. ...
Sam Bradford Out, Case Keenum Starting Today For Vikings
In a disappointing development for a team coming off a promising opening-week win, Vikings QB Sam Bradford is out today after attempting to warm up on his injured knee. Case Keenum will start in his place against the Steelers....
Report: Zach Randolph Accepts Plea Deal, Avoids Jail Time In Marijuana Case
After being arrested last month for felony drug possession with intent to sell, Sacramento Kings forward Zach Randolph has cut a plea deal that will allow him to avoid jail time, TMZ reports. Online court records show a hearing is scheduled for an “arraignment and plea” in Randolph’s case tomorrow m...
Vikings Hire Teen Consultant To Teach Them How To Be Cool
What’s up YouTubers—you know who’s “on fleek” right now? The Minnesota Vikings are, or will be. The team has hired Jonah Stillman as a “Gen Z advisor.”...
Adrian Peterson Wanted To Run It Up The Vikings' "Donkey"
Adrian Peterson’s revenge game wasn’t meant to be. In his first game as a member of the New Orleans Saints, going against his former Minnesota Vikings squad, Peterson finished with just six carries for 18 yards. The only memorable moment he produced was getting caught yelling something at head coach...
Why Your Team Sucks 2017: Minnesota Vikings<em></em>
Some people are fans of the Minnesota Vikings. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Minnesota Vikings. This 2017 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here....
Report: Zach Randolph Arrested For Possession And Intent To Sell
According to CBS 2 in Los Angeles, Sacramento Kings power forward Zach Randolph was arrested on felony charges of drug possession and intent to sell in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles last night....
Do The Astros Need Justin Verlander?
Justin Verlander’s contract is so big that the Tigers had no fear any other team would want it. After the traditional trade deadline passed at the end of July, Verlander and the $28 million he’s owed in each of the next two years easily cleared revocable waivers, making the 34-year-old Tiger still e...
Report: Yu Darvish Is Officially For Sale
Rangers ace Yu Darvish is 30 years old, will be a free agent after this season, and is pitching at the high level he always does when healthy for a team that’s lost more than it’s won, all of which has made him a pretty obvious candidate to get moved before this month’s trade deadline. Now, accordin...
Cleveland's Offseason Is Turning Into A Real Nightmare
Dan Gilbert and the Cavaliers have made a massive fucking mess of the 2017 NBA offseason. It’s hard to believe a team that can basically sleepwalk backwards through the regular season and wake up in the Finals would find itself seemingly on the brink of total meltdown, but here we are....
Indiana's Haul From The Paul George Trade Is Looking Worse And Worse
This morning ESPN dropped a long and richly detailed account of the circumstances that surrounded and led to Kyrie Irving’s surprise trade request, first reported Friday afternoon, in which he told Cavs owner Dan Gilbert that he no longer wants to play in Cleveland. It seems Irving’s dissatisfaction...
Actually 2017 Is Very Good, John Wall Signed His Max Extension
Rejoice, my good friends, for the mighty John Wall, in his profound wisdom, has signed a 4-year, $170 million contract extension with the Washington Wizards. We have come through dark times indeed, but at last we are delivered to a better day. Whew! ...
Phil Jackson Made It Impossible For The Knicks To Do Anything Good With Melo
Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN reported this morning that Carmelo Anthony is still expecting the New York Knicks to complete a trade that will send him to the Houston Rockets to play alongside James Harden and Chris Paul. The remaking of New York’s front office has apparently not persuaded Melo to stick...
Kombucha Defense Fails To Spare Michael Floyd From Suspension
The NFL announced Friday that Vikings receiver and kombucha enthusiast Michael Floyd has been suspended without pay for the first four games of the 2017 NFL season for violating the league’s substance abuse policy....
Knicks Reportedly Hire Away Kings' Best Front Office Guy After Just Three Months On The Job
The Sacramento Kings have spent this NBA offseason as a darling of the league for the first time in what feels like 15 years. They drafted well, nabbing hyperfast point guard De’Aaron Fox at five and picking three more players later in the draft that were generally viewed as good value picks for a f...
DraftKings And FanDuel Scuttle Planned Merger
Daily fantasy giants DraftKings and FanDuel have reportedly been planning to merge for almost a year, a move which would have consolidated power such that around 90 percent of the daily fantasy industry would belong to one mega company. The Federal Trade Commission opposed the merger on the grounds ...
James Harden Signs NBA Record Supermax Extension With The Rockets
James Harden today signed the richest contract extension in NBA history, a Designated Player Veteran Extension with Houston worth $170 million over four years. Harden’s current deal runs out in the summer of 2019, so this deal will run through the 2022-2023 season, when Harden will be 33 years old. ...
Nick Young, On Passing: "That's The Point Guard's Job"
Recent Golden State signee Nick Young met with the press Friday night. Among other things, the issue of Golden State’s constant-movement, pass-first offense came up. Here’s Swaggy P:...
Nick Young Makes Perfect Sense On The Warriors
The most whimsical and doomed NBA teams in recent memory were those Washington Wizards squads between 2008 and 2012 that featured Gilbert Arenas pooping in teammates’s shoes, JaVale McGee fucking up all over the court, and Nick Young pulling up and laying bricks about 20 times a game. Thanks to the ...
Kyle Lowry Agrees To Return To Toronto For $100 Million
Kyle Lowry has reached an agreement on a contract to return to the Toronto Raptors, reportedly for three years and $100 million, per Woj. Lowry was probably the biggest fish left in the free-agent point guard pool, but a diminishing number of potential starting spots made it increasingly likely that...