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It's not a good look for the NBA when Kevin Garnett can't get a stake in Timberwolves ownership
If there’s any former player who deserves an ownership stake in a franchise he helped build, it’s Kevin Garnett. But unfortunately, the Minnesota Timberwolves don’t see it that way....
Which teams went 0-4 in the Super Bowl?
The Minnesota Vikings are the super failures you never hear about (thanks a lot, Buffalo). Like the Bills, the Vikings also lost four Super Bowls — but over the course of eight years, not four....
Kirk Cousins hits ‘Griddy’ in the style of an arthritic 72-year-old
Watching Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins try to do anything remotely coordinated may be worse than binge-watching a Tyler Perry original series on BET. So you should understand why I rarely tune in to Vikings games or anything else the H&R Block accountant disguised as an NFL QB may decide to do....
Dan Bailey is a slide whistle and a sad trombone
You can set your watch to Minnesota sports. The Twins will never win a playoff game, the Timberwolves will see anyone with a name you can remember leave to accomplish anything, and no one will ever remember the Wild even exist, as everyone is more concerned with the Gophers anyway. And the Vikings w...
Jaguars defy laws of nature with off-the-back deflection catch for TD
How is this physically possible?...
Karl-Anthony Towns tells of unimaginable loss of seven family members due to COVID-19, including his mother
Karl-Anthony Towns revealed Friday that his life has been hell on Earth since the pandemic began....
Timberwolves take Anthony Edwards, and it’s fine if it’s just his job
Rarely are No. 1 picks a total surprise, though there was some conjecture about what exactly the T-Wolves would do with the top selection in last night’s draft. Anthony Edwards was the consensus, but everyone’s got their own ideas, and then there was the little hubbub about Edwards essentially sayin...
Week 7 Powerless Rankings: Did your favorite NFL team make the bottom 5?
After another week of football in the National Football League, we have had the pleasure of seeing some outstanding teams battle....
Atlanta Cockatoos finally look like pro franchise against tax accountant disguised as Vikings QB
Some occurrences in life are so rare that we all need to take a timeout and acknowledge them, for no other reason than to just simply admire the event for happening. ...
TV magic can't mask NFL's ugly reality: This season hangs by a thread
This NFL season is as sturdy as a house of cards. No amount of theater, from the low camera angles that cloak a lack of fans to the laugh track of fake cheering that pretends they are still there, can hide the truth....
It’s time to ban the A’s and Twins from MLB playoffs
Major League Baseball began it’s playoff key party yesterday, with all the American League wild-card series kicking off. And while this season has been weird/a farce/an abomination to the sport and really all logic (if you lean that way), there was something exciting about having a day full of baseb...
Chaos breaks out in NFL as three Titans test positive
The Tennessee Titans and Minnesota Vikings have both suspended in-person club activities following the discovery of eight positive COVID tests in the Titans organization....
Dallas Is Mediocre, Tom Brady Is Old, and the Eagles Are Folding: Our Sunday Takeaways
The NFL season is here....
The Deadspin 2020 NFL Previews, NFC North: The 'No One Else Wanted to Preview This Stale Division' Division
As usual, the road to . . . well, maybe not the Super Bowl, but at least the playoffs goes through Green Bay. And while Aaron Rodgers and the Packers aren’t as dominant as they once were, despite going 13-3 in Matt LaFleur’s first season as a head coach, no one else in the division has really steppe...
Here’s One Way to Get Revenge Without Throwing a Baseball at Someone’s Skull
Miguel Sanó destroyed a baseball on Saturday, launching a Joe Jiménez pitch off the facing of the second deck in Minneapolis to pull the Twins within a run of the Tigers in the eighth inning. Sanó then had the game-tying hit in the ninth before Byron Buxton beat out a walkoff infield single....
Drilling Down on Thursday's NBA Draft Lottery
The moment seemed it would never come because of COVID-19, but the 2020 NBA Draft lottery is here. We’ll finally get this year’s draft order. ...
Matt Dumba Spoke From His Heart, and the NHL Left Him Out to Dry
Update: Ryan Reaves reversed course and kneeled for the anthem before Vegas’s game against Dallas, along with Robin Lehner, Tyler Seguin, and Jason Dickinson....
2020 AL Central Preview
“Flyover Country” in the American League contains history’s greatest home-run squad (Minnesota, somehow), perhaps the league’s most exciting team….and then three teams not even trying. This is pretty much the norm in baseball these days, a division that has one or two teams fighting over actual priz...
All Maya Moore Did Was Walk Away From Her WNBA Career to Help Free an Innocent Man
Maya Moore willingly gave up her WNBA career before the age of 30. ...