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“Oh my God, what did I do?” Barry Rozner of the Daily Herald checked in with Peggy Kusinski, the veteran Chicago reporter whose inexplicable 2014 question to Patrick Kane—“was that your first overtime game-winner?”—went viral and gained her the bad kind of internet fame. [Daily Herald]...

A new analysis of the deal to build a stadium for MLS’s FC Cincinnati shows it will cost taxpayers $213 million, or more than four times what was described in the 2017 agreement between city and county leaders and the team’s ownership. Even “favorable” public-private stadium deals wind up screwing t...

Deadspin Up All Night: Don't Sing Love Songs

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Last week, Hope Solo offered to be the enforcer for the USWNT in their fight for equal pay, fearing the team might succumb to intimidation in the proceedings against the USSF without her. This week, the USWNT said, “Nah, we’re good” as forcefully as lawyer-speak allowed them to. [The Athletic]...

Deadspin Up All Night: Stuck In A Rock And A Hard Place

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Two weeks after his third and most recent surgery, David Ortiz was released from a Massachusetts hospital on Friday. He’ll be rehabbing at home while receiving visits from his personal doctor, and getting assistance from full-time nurses, according to ESPN’s Enrique Rojas. [ESPN]...

Deadspin Up All Night: It's A Bird! It's A Plane!

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The Maryland State Athletic Commission has said it will conduct an investigation into the bout that led to the death of boxer Maxim Dadashev. In the meantime, underscoring just how brutal and dangerous boxing is, the president of the Association of Ringside Physicians told the Washington Post that h...

Deadspin Up All Night: Every Hello Is Goodbye

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Original Deadspinner Rick Chandler suffered a stroke on July 3 and has been in critical care since. A page has been set up if you’d like updates on his condition. You can also write a nice note for him as he recovers. [Caring Bridge]...

Every Team Sucks, But Not In The Same Way

Somehow, in wild defiance of everything that has ever given order to the universe, NFL teams will begin playing preseason games in the next week. Straight up full-dress, pads-on football games, one real NFL team against another, the whole thing. Or not quite the whole thing—the recognizable players ...

Our own Dave McKenna is on Slate’s sports podcast Hang Up and Listen this week talking about everything from himself to himself! But seriously, do yourself a favor and listen to Dave yak for 50 minutes. Genious, as he would say....

Deadspin Up All Night: Fear

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Remember John Allen Chau, the American missionary who was killed by the North Sentinelese last year when he tried to make contact with the isolated people? Alex Perry has a tremendous feature over at Outside Magazine about his life and death and it is well worth your time....

Deadspin Up All Night: Spirit Desire

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Deadspin Up All Night: She's Got A Choice

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Law360's Ryan Boysen wrote about Tim Howard, a Florida attorney who repped as many as 250 players in the NFL’s concussion settlement litigation at the same time he was running a hedge fund out of his law office. The fund was used to scam players by fronting them loans with their own money, but wait ...

Deadspin Up All Night: Look Down At My Body

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Deadspin Up All Night: Mortal Sin!

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