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Week 16 Powerless Rankings: Behold this utter trash heap
It’s time once again to highlight the teams stinking up the joint every single week....
This season, we'll find out just how good Steph Curry really is
For the majority of Steph Curry’s NBA career, he’s been treated unfairly....
NBA Daily Fantasy Yah’s and Nah’s: Don’t be fooled by guards who really only score
Today’s slate is five games long, replicating Christmas last Friday, with hopefully more competitive outcomes and better fantasy turnouts. Here’s what to look out for tonight....
Idiot of the Year #9: Rudolph Giuliani, irascible bug-man
Welcome to Deadspin’s farewell-to-2020 IDIOT OF THE YEAR awards! If you have made it this far, then congratulations, brave traveler....
Washington throws away playoff hopes like Dwayne Haskins tosses dollar bills
It seems crazy that Washington was leading the division with six wins coming into Sunday, and it seems even crazier that they are still leading the division after being smacked by a team that has lost twice as many games as it has won....
Don’t let Sunday fool you, the Steelers are the AFC’s most vulnerable playoff team
Don’t let Sunday’s comeback win versus the Colts fool you....
Seahawks defense makes Rams look futile, Dallas can steal booboo division, and Packers could dethrone Chiefs
The end of the NFL season is next week, which means that playoff spots are on the line....
Would anyone like to win the NFC East?
When you see a car wreck on the side of the road, you look. You may not like that you look, but you do it anyway....
This Packers team can win the Super Bowl
Don’t get it twisted. This is NOT last season’s Green Bay Packers....
Idiot of the Year #10: Zach Plesac, the stupidest canary in baseball’s coal mine
Welcome to Deadspin’s farewell-to-2020 IDIOT OF THE YEAR awards! If you have made it this far, then congratulations, brave traveler....
‘We’re gonna do 69,’ referee informs Cowboys-Eagles viewers
“We’re gonna do 69” was something I (or anyone) didn’t exactly expect to hear while watching the Cowboys-Eagles game....
Jets gift Trevor Lawrence to Jaguars with inexplicable back-to-back wins
For some reason, the Jets decided to win... again....
Jaguars fans brave COVID to root for Bears
It’s gotten so bad in Jacksonville, that it’s good....
Duke’s women’s team wasn’t the only basketball program to suspend its season last week
When you’re 0-9, people tend to ignore you even when your acts are newsworthy....
Deadspin NFL Over/Under Bet of the Week: Cold temperatures can halt Rivers
Over/Under: 44.5...
The World Junior Hockey Championships manage to make us feel bad for Germany
Germany is not exactly a power in world hockey, silver medal at the weird 2018 Olympics aside. At the World Junior Championships, the Germans have never medaled, nor even managed better than a fifth-place finish — as West Germany, and as host of the tournament — in 1981. Germany hasn’t been better t...
Sunday Scaries: The Week 16 bets to avoid
This experiment has finally caught up....
Hey! Have you guys heard about this virus sweeping America?
Jarvis Landry is among the five players, including the bulk of the Browns’ receiving corps, who went on the COVID-19 list as close contacts of virus-positive linebacker B.J. Goodson and have to miss Sunday’s game against the Jets....
Brady puts up video game numbers with Lions set on rookie mode
Five previous times, someone posted a perfect passer rating of 158.3 for the Buccaneers, most recently Craig Erickson, who went 19-for-24 for 313 yards and three touchdowns against the Colts in 1994....
The Reds (remember them?) are going to blow up something they never even built
The commonly accepted method for building a contending MLB team these days is to one day decide the team you have is rotten and no longer competitive, flog everything off that isn’t nailed down for prospects and lottery tickets, suck pond scum for a few years to rack up high draft picks that result ...