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ESPN Says Curt Schilling Will Be Back For The Playoffs. Let's See What He's Been Up To. [UPDATE]

ESPN baseball commentator Curt Schilling, who earned himself a fairly lengthy suspension for sharing a crazy-ass meme about Muslims and Nazis on his Facebook and Twitter pages, will be back in the booth studio for ESPN’s MLB playoffs broadcasts. So, does this mean Schilling has stopped putting insan...

Nation Demands Pro-Jonathan Papelbon Takes; Fox Sports Provides Them

The trouble with a story like yesterday’s Bryce Harper-Jonathan Papelbon fight in the Nationals dugout is that it does not contain much—any—ambiguity. It is unambiguously wonderful, that oh-God-this-is-so-fucking-stupid kind of wonderful, and also Jonathan Papelbon unambiguously is a belligerent too...

Cam Newton: Ed Hochuli Said I Wasn't "Old Enough" To Get A Call

Panthers quarterback Cam Newton stirred up some drama during his postgame press conference yesterday, claiming that muscle-bound referee Ed Hochuli told him he wasn’t “old enough” to earn a personal foul call....

Chill Out, Dude

Always-Wrong ESPN Fuck-Up Chris Broussard Wrong Yet Again

Resets the “Chris Broussard Has Worked __ Days Without Fucking Up A Report” sign in the Deadspin office....

Another High School Football Player Targets A Referee

High school football is in desperate need of some chill right now. Just this month we’ve seen two Texas high school football players light up a referee who supposedly said racist things to them, another player from Texas shove an official, and a kid use his opponent’s helmet as a mace. Now, we have ...

Things Are Already Tense Between Ndamukong Suh And The Dolphins

It usually takes a few bad losses to drive an NFL team to the point of undermining itself via anonymous pot shots in the press. The 1-1 Dolphins shouldn’t be at that juncture yet, but their Week 2 loss came at the hands of the Jaguars, which is basically like losing four games in one. It’s the kind ...

Did Chip Kelly Outsmart Himself?

The Eagles are 0-2, and although it’s certainly unfair to write off a team after two games, you wouldn’t blame Eagles fans for looking at Chip Kelly with eyebrows raised as high as they’ll go. Is this—a completely dysfunctional squad that can’t be bothered to beat a Cowboys team down Tony Romo and D...

ESPN's Matthew Berry Sells Credibility To DraftKings

You know how it’s barely Week 2 of the NFL season and you’re already sick and fucking tired of DraftKings commercials? Well, good luck, because ESPN fantasy writing is now just one long DraftKings commercial too....

Stephen A. Smith, Useful Idiot, Connects Weed To The Collapse Of Civilization

Stephen A. Smith, the painfully articulate, misogynistic, Floyd-fluffing TMT roadie, is still employed by ESPN, which means he showed up to work today to say fun, dumb shit very loudly to and with Skip Bayless on First Take. Today’s topic: drugs!...

Ta-Nehisi Coates Needs An Editor, Says Editor Who Edited Like One Blog Post In 18 Months

Earlier this week, Atlantic writer Ta-Nehisi Coates published an enormous study of mass incarceration and its impact on African-American families in America today. The article is comprehensive, exhaustive, compellingly written, and reaches back into centuries of American oppression to come to the co...

High School Football Player Removes Opponent's Helmet, Bashes Him With It

According to NJ.com, this happened last weekend during a game between New Jersey high schools Immaculata and Linden. In the video above, you’ll see a Linden defensive lineman pull the helmet off an Immaculata player, and then swing the helmet right into his head....

He Mad

Kelvin Taylor earned a taunting penalty for doing a throat slash after scoring against East Carolina. Gators coach Jim McElwain was not happy....

Why Is ESPN Doing George W. Bush's Dirty Work For Him?

The ill-conceived remembrance is by now as much a 9/11 anniversary tradition as the insensitively branded 9/11 memorial tweet, but even by the degraded standards of the remember-when genre, today’s contributions by ESPN and Grantland are really out there....

The Nats Are On Life Support, And Matt Williams Is Yanking Away At The Plug

Manager Matt Williams isn’t totally to blame for what’s happened to the Nats this season—they are, hands down, the most disappointing team in baseball, and their 93-win over-under from the start of the year is looking more and more hilarious by the day—but that doesn’t mean he shouldn’t be punted in...

Patriots Fan Offers Counterpoint To Bombshell ESPN Report

A Patriots fan with a Twitter account read today’s bombshell report about the New England Patriots, and offers this rebuttal:...

Tom Brady's Angry Dad Phones Radio Show, Calls Roger Goodell "A Flaming Liar"

Tom Brady Sr. called a San Francisco radio program Friday afternoon to defend his son, angrily declaring the show’s host “full of crap” and NFL commissioner Roger Goodell a “flaming liar.”...

ESPN Shuts Down Curt Schilling For The Rest Of The Season

Curt Schilling was punished for his bad meme about Nazis and Muslims with a break from calling games, but his longwinded emails to bloggers seem to have extended that suspension. ESPN announced today that the baseball analyst wouldn’t appear on TV for the rest of the MLB season....

Victoria Azarenka Hits Chair Umpire With A Solid High-School Burn

During her U.S. Open match against Lucie Hradecka yesterday, Victoria Azarenka found herself in a disagreement with the chair umpire. She handled herself like a jock seasoned in the art of making band kids feel like lame nerds....

Curt Schilling Emails Blogger To Clarify His Thoughts On Nazis And Muslims

ESPN revoked Little League World Series broadcast privileges from baseball analyst/borderline Hall of Famer Curt Schilling after he shared some questionable stats about Nazis and Muslims to his Twitter followers. Schilling isn’t taking his break quietly, however. Today, he sent a long email to Dan L...