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No, Your iPhone Won't Autocorrect to a Racial Slur
In the past two weeks, there’s been a rash of white men blaming the slurs they let slip onto social media on typos and, by implication, autocorrect....

Of Course Two White Guys Got the Job
What must it feel like to be a woman covering football at ESPN to see this latest news from Bristol....

The Problem With Mark Grace and Sports Media
Mark Grace has never come across like the brightest bulb on the tree....

The Bubble Wrap: Barbershops, Another Birthday and Remembering Breonna
A dedicated Twitter and Instagram account, plus bored millionaires cooped up in hotel rooms has brought us to this moment, as basketball fans are turning to social media to monitor the antics of the NBA and WNBA’s bubbles....

Will Media Access Ever Return to Normal?
Days before the entire sports world fully shut down because of the coronavirus pandemic, the leagues in North America put a major social distancing measure into place. Although that measure very much proved to be an attempt to shut the barn door after the horses were miles down the road, it was seen...

LeBron James' Media Company to Teach the History Behind Wealth Disparity
The country is slowly turning over a new leaf, one that will hopefully lead to a racially conscious society that uncovers stories like Black Wall Street and the Rosewood Massacre, that depict the sad fate many Black Americans experienced simply for creating their own wealth. It remains important tha...

Poker Pro Reports Better Than The Mainstream Media: ‘The Aggression Started With The Police.’ Update: And He Got Arrested
Sparked by the death of George Floyd, Mark Newhouse joined protesters in San Jose on Saturday who were demanding an end to police brutality. They were met with the same response as other protests nationwide: More police brutality....

Media Coverage of Justin Rohrwasser's White Nationalist Tattoo Has Been Shameful
Kicker Justin Rohrwasser was selected by the Patriots in the fifth round of the NFL Draft. It was also discovered he had a “Three Percenter” tattoo on his arm, and sports media is having a really hard time framing this story, and what the “Three Percenter” tattoo represents....

Jaguars Edge Rusher Yannick Ngakoue Giving A MasterClass On Social Media Exit Strategy
Yannick Ngakoue is getting out of Jacksonville by any means necessary....

Shenanigans: This is How Bored Athletes are Passing Time While They Can't Play Ball
The global stoppage of sports due to the COVID-19 pandemic has left many feeling the same way: bored....

Don't Make Me Root For These Creatures To Be Happy
I am never going to forgive the Houston Astros. Not because they’ve dropped two straight at home to the Washington Nationals in this year’s World Series, although that was pretty grotesque. (They gave up a crucial home run to Kurt Suzuki, who is 129 years old.) No, it’s because their idiot assistant...

ESPN Cancels Bowl Game Sponsorship Deal With Company That Does Not Seem To Exist
We can all agree that there are simply too many damn bowl games, and that a huge chunk of them only exist so that sports networks can bilk a few hundred thousand dollars out of a presenting sponsor while subjecting us all to the CarsAndCarParts.com New Jersey Turnpike Bowl, or whatever. And so it is...
![The Future Of Adrian Wojnarowski's Tencent Show Is Up In The Air After He "Liked" Daryl Morey's Hong Kong Tweet [Update]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/a6egltyzkdqnyoyq7dwo.png)
The Future Of Adrian Wojnarowski's Tencent Show Is Up In The Air After He "Liked" Daryl Morey's Hong Kong Tweet [Update]
Now that last week’s roiling spat between the Chinese government and the NBA has mostly cooled, the global-sports-industrial complex is back to business as usual. Pre-season NBA games were held in China on Thursday and Saturday and everything went off relatively smoothly (with only a few minor hitch...

Gus Johnson Not Sure If It's Hot In Here Or Just Him, Can't Stop Admiring Beefy Referee's Arms
When Mike Defee officiates a football game, you can be fairly sure that what transpires on the field will be discussed about half as much as what’s protruding from Defee’s sleeves. His arms first came to prominence a few years ago in the 2017 title game between Alabama and Clemson, after which he to...

Bernie Sanders And Elizabeth Warren Take Aim At Corporate Interests Gutting Journalism
Two leading Democratic presidential candidates, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren, issued statements today condemning the corporate interests that have increasingly been destroying media institutions....

Rockets Flack Tells Reporter To Stick To Sports After She Asks Players About Political Expression
Russell Westbrook and James Harden each dropped 22 points in the Rockets’ preseason victory over the Raptors in Saitama, Japan. In the postgame presser, CNN’s Christina Macfarlane asked a question of the two players:...

Maybe It's Not That Complicated
Over the last few days, many people in the NBA and wider sports media world have settled on a basic talking point when discussing the ongoing international incident that Rockets GM Daryl Morey kicked off when he tweeted a message of support for pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong: It’s complicated...

Internal Memo: ESPN Forbids Discussion Of Chinese Politics When Discussing Daryl Morey's Tweet About Chinese Politics
If you paid attention to ESPN channels yesterday, you saw the network repeatedly attempt to grapple with the story of Houston Rockets general manager Daryl Morey creating an international incident after tweeting and then deleting his support for pro-democracy protestors in Hong Kong. You heard talki...

Stephen A. Smith Pauses Between Bootlicks To Tell Daryl Morey To Grow Up
Ahead of his radio program this afternoon, Stephen A. Smith clearly thought long and hard about Daryl Morey’s tweet supporting Hong Kong protestors, the ensuing controversy and Morey’s subsequent backtracking, and the large-scale implications of all of the above on relationships between China and U....
