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Another Joint Practice, Another Huge Brawl

Folks, we’ve got another joint practice brawl, this time between the Colts and Ravens, at Colts training camp Saturday afternoon. The brawl appears to have started after Colts linebacker Antonio Morrison leveled Albert McClellan in a special teams drill, and McClellan jumped up ready to make war:...

Two Pirates Minor Leaguers Hit For The Cycle In The Same Game

Here’s something improbable: two minor league teammates in the Pirates system hit for the cycle Tuesday night, in the same game. Kevin Newman got his in five at-bats, notching a single, a pair of doubles, a triple, and finally, in the eighth inning, a solo dong to left:...

Why Your Team Sucks 2018: Indianapolis Colts<em></em>

Some people are fans of the Indianapolis Colts. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Indianapolis Colts. This 2018 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here....

Andrew Luck Survived Throwing A Football, Quick Everyone Knock On Wood

The thrilling news out of Colts training camp this weekend was that quarterback Andrew Luck, whose throwing shoulder has been crabmeat for several hundred years now, completed three (3) days of practice without his arm falling off:...

Hunter S. Thompson Told Jim Irsay To Draft Ryan Leaf Over Peyton Manning

Hunter S. Thompson predicted, in the most general sense, the coming of Donald Trump, or at least the flourishing of the reactionary, retaliatory, mutually-assured-destructive base that put him and his ilk into power. (He also noted, as early as anyone, that the American experiment had peaked and per...

Down And Out With Art Schlichter, Football God Turned Con Man

Originally published as “The Long, Slow Fall of a Gridiron God” in the December, 1988 issue of GQ, this profile appears here with the author’s permission....

Andrew Luck Threw A Damn Football!

Big NFL news today: Andrew Luck put a frickin’ football in his hands and then threw the football. It’s the first time he’s done that in something like 272 years....

Hell Is Real, And It's The Infield Of The Indy 500 

“Where are you going? Heaven or hell?” asked a billboard beside a typically dull stretch of Interstate 65 halfway from Chicago to Indianapolis. Twenty miles south came another sign, this one more urgent than the last, a warning spelled out in white block type against a black background: “HELL IS REA...

Marvin Harrison Carries Baseball Bat As He Has A Definitely Not At All Threatening Conversation With Tenant

Via Terez Owens comes this video of Hall of Fame wide receiver and Philadelphia landlord Marvin Harrison holding a baseball bat as he walks toward someone who apparently owes him money....

Andrew Luck: I Still Haven’t Thrown A Real Football

Andrew Luck missed all of the 2017 season. At Colts minicamp today, he spoke with reporters for the first time in 2018. How’s his rehab from injury going?...

The Jets Paid An Awful Lot To Draft A Quarterback, But They Didn't Really Have A Choice

That the Colts would trade out of the No. 3 spot in the NFL draft has a fairly straightforward explanation: Indianapolis is pretty confident Andrew Luck’s shoulder will be fine (at some point), and the return the Colts got from the Jets—the No. 6 pick and two second-round selections this year, plus ...

Andrew Luck Swears He's On The Comeback Trail, For Real This Time

Andrew Luck has not played competitive football since 2016, because of an injury he suffered in 2015, thanks to numerous and nebulous setbacks and relapses. So, now that it’s 2018, how’s the onetime all-world QB doing? ...

Reports: Colts Hire Eagles Offensive Coordinator Frank Reich As Next Head Coach

Fresh off of being brutally rejected by Josh McDaniels, the Colts have pivoted to Super Bowl-winning Eagles offensive coordinator Frank Reich as their next head coach, replacing Chuck Pagano. Per Mike Garafolo of NFL Network, Reich will sign a five-year deal in Indianapolis....

Josh McDaniels's Agent Drops Him After Colts Fiasco

Agent Bob LaMonte has withdrawn from representing Josh McDaniels in the wake of McDaniels’s 11th-hour decision to stay with the Patriots. According to ESPN’s Dan Graziano, LaMonte was “stunned” and “blindsided” by the move, and he apparently told McDaniels that he was “committing professional suicid...

Colts GM Chris Ballard Is Mad

Indianapolis Colts general manager Chris Ballard had to face the media today and talk about the fact that Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels decided to back out of his agreement to be the Colts’ next coach. Ballard’s press conference was delivered in the tone of a person talking themselve...

Everyone Looks Bad In The Josh McDaniels Mess 

Following in the footsteps of his still-boss Bill Belichick, Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels changed his mind about becoming Colts head coach, pulling out of the job after the Colts had announced it and scheduled an introductory press conference for Wednesday. It’s a delicious story, b...

Report: Actually, Josh McDaniels Is Staying With The Patriots [Updated]

After less than nine hours on the job as the official Indianapolis Colts head coach, New England offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels has pulled the plug on his brand new team and decided around to stick around with the Patriots. That’s according to Adam Schefter, who made a fantastic use of the all...

Josh McDaniels Coaches The Colts Now

Colts Linebacker Edwin Jackson Killed By Suspected Drunk Driver

Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson and his rideshare driver were killed early Sunday morning on the shoulder of an Indianapolis highway, when a suspected drunk driver veered off the road and hit them both. Indiana State Police believe Jackson asked his driver Jeffrey Monroe to pull over because he was f...

Colts Fire Chuck Pagano After Six Seasons

They gave him the game ball right beforehand, too:...