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Jarred Kelenic reassignment means Mariners aren't even hiding service time manipulation
Jarred Kelenic is a future star for the Mariners, who have not been to the playoffs since 2001. The centerpiece of the trade in which Seattle dumped Robinson Canó’s salary on the Mets, Kelenic came to spring training this year, got a real, not just happy-to-be-in-camp uniform number, 10, and then we...
Mike Bell, of famed baseball family, who scrapped his way to majors, dies of kidney cancer
Without ever having met Mike Bell, who died on Friday at the age of 46 from kidney cancer, the story of his baseball life says a lot....
Tim Peel is just a symptom of the NHL’s problem with enforcing fake parity
As expected, the NHL couldn’t wait to toss Tim Peel out on his ass after he got caught on a hot mic basically admitting to make-em-even calls. It’s not really much of a punishment. Peel was due to retire next month anyway, will still get paid, and due to his years and years of clown shoes refereeing...
Warning: Lakers’ repeat chances will explode in 3...2...1...
The Los Angeles Lakers aren’t repeating as NBA champs....
The Colorado Avalanche make medicine sick
It isn’t much of a story when a preseason favorite starts rising to the top of the standings. Most everyone thought the Colorado Avalanche would be a Cup contender this year, playing 56 preseason games and one warm-up series before a West Division final with the Vegas Golden Knights that will contai...
Which upsets are going to make you wanna delete your bracket (or brag incessantly) this year?
It’s that time of the year again. While everyone is going through their brackets and making last-minute changes, the thought of picking this year’s magical upset is always looming. ...
The Greensboro theory: Was the ACC Tournament a COVID-19 superspreader event?
If multiple people from different areas are testing positive for COVID-19 after all being in the same places a week ago, shouldn’t the focus be on that particular place?...
Duke? UNC? UConn? Ranking the best NCAA national champs over the past 20 years
Selection Sunday will be the first time we’ve been able to fill out a bracket in two years. A lot has changed since then, especially in college basketball, as it’s been as upside down as the rest of the world is. Juniors and seniors are the biggest draws this season, as only a few freshmen like Okla...
Paw Patrol: NASCAR to begin using VERY GOOD DOGGOS for COVID detection
You know when you talk to your dog like a human and they tilt their head in confusion? I made the same move when I heard about NASCAR’s plan to bring very good boys and girls to detect COVID at Sunday’s Cup Race in Atlanta....
Jeremy Lin warned the sports world about #StopAsianHate, then a white terrorist killed six Asians in Atlanta — are you paying attention yet?
Far too often in America, racism is thought of as something that only Black people endure. But, as history and the present have always proved, hate has no color....
Signing Andy Goddamn Dalton is the most Bears move ever
Fuck my entire life....
The best national champion teams of the 2000s
As the NCAA Tournament returns next week after missing a year due to COVID-19, one of the conversations that have been hovering over the sport is when will the NBA get rid of the “one-and-done” rule....
Which football powerhouse could cut down nets at the Final Four?
The Madness is finally back, and the matchups are finally set for what will be one of the strangest NCAA tournaments in recent history. Not only will COVID-19 likely have an impact on the games within the Indiana “bubble,” but this year we are missing some of the most storied programs in all of coll...
UPDATE: Racist HS announcer blames diabetes for saying‘f***ing n*****s’ on hot mic
I’ve never seen racism blamed on blood sugar, but here we are. During the NFHS Network stream of a game between Norman High and Midwest City that was covering the Class 6A girls state quarterfinals on Thursday night, a hot mic caught a commentator being a disgusting human being and launching into a ...
Sleep on Cam Newton at your own peril — Belichick is no dope, and Pats are far from irrelevant
Small sample sizes are perilous for any kind of analysis, but sometimes, it’s all you have to go on....
Let's see if we can make baseball better by exploiting loopholes in MLB’s rulebook
Major League Baseball’s takeover of the minor leagues has paved the way for the 2021 season to be one of experimentation on the farm, with different rules being tested at different levels in the developmental circuits....
Let's predict where this batch of high-profile quarterbacks will end up next year
We are in the throes of NFL speculation season. So much so that, as I’m writing, I feel as though it’s entirely possible I will have to scrap this entire article because Russell Wilson may have been traded to the Bears. Seriously – Chicago Bears Reddit is literally tracking a private jet flight from...
Russell Wilson is not even here yet and I’m already sick of him
I know that right off the top, being a Bears fan means that A) I assume everything will go wrong no matter what happens, and B) I don’t have a true appreciation of what it means for an NFL team to have a top-tier quarterback. I’ve never seen one up close. I thought I did once, and it turned out all ...
The day it all fell apart: Deadspin talks to journalists all over the sports world about what they remember when everything shut down
A year ago today was our last “normal” day. At least in the beginning. Only we didn’t know it....
Will the Big Ten’s 21-year national title drought end next month?
On April 3, the national championship trophy inside of the Breslin Center at Michigan State University will be old enough to drink. When that day arrives in three weeks, it will mark 21 years since the Spartans, led by Mateen Cleaves, won their last national title....