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The Mets Are Dealing With Infield Injuries Just Fine, Thanks
There are any number of logical team strategies for dealing with injuries. Call up help from the minor leagues. Get a little more creative than usual with your defensive alignments. Let a catcher make his first career appearance at third base, but live in such terror of him actually having to field ...
Arsène Wenger Is Sorry For All The Times He Made Arsenal Fans Cry
Arsène Wenger often talks about managing Arsenal the way old couples talk about marriage, or how parents talk about raising kids, or how other old couples talk about saying to hell with their marriage and the kids and getting a divorce—that is, he describes it as hard, thankless work that for the mo...
Richard Ben Cramer On The Damn Yankees
Originally published in the October 17, 1977, edition of The Baltimore Sun, this column appears here with permission from the author’s estate....
The Fallout From Sportswriting's Filthiest Fuck-Up
The article hangs on a wall in my office. I am actually staring at it as I write this—it is taped, slightly crooked, to the white paint above my desk, positioned between a Chicago Blitz bumper sticker, a picture of my mother’s late Uncle John, and a photograph from the 1987 Mahopac High School fresh...
Report: Saints Fire Team Doctors Who Misdiagnosed Player's Broken Leg
The Saints fired two team orthopedists after learning they had diagnosed cornerback Delvin Breaux with a contusion even though Breaux really has a fractured fibula, according to ESPN’s Mike Triplett....
Odell Beckham Jr. Isn't Fair
There’s Giants wideout Odell Beckham Jr. this morning at training camp, doing what he does even as Janoris Jenkins plays him perfectly. Here’s the full video:...
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Yankees Fans Enjoy Subway Ride [NSFW]
Being a sports fan isn’t all sunshine and rainbows, and when the team you root for fails to give you the joy and pleasure you’re after, sometimes you have to look for alternate avenues for good sensations. Hence these two Yankees fans coming together in sexual congress on the 5 train after the Yanks...
Rafael Devers's Home Run Broke This Yankees Fan
The Red Sox came back to beat the Yankees 3-2 and win the rubber game of their series thanks to their rookies: A ninth-inning home run from Rafael Devers and a 10th-inning single from Andrew Benintendi. And Devers’s homer silenced one very excited Yankees fan:...
Last Uninjured Mets Starter Takes Liner Off Pitching Arm
Of the five starting pitchers who began the year in the Mets’ rotation, all save one have spent time on the disabled list. That one is Jacob deGrom. And here he is tonight, getting struck squarely on the right arm by a 99-mph line drive in the seventh inning:...
High School Football Player Dies After Being Struck By Log During Team Exercise
A high school football player in Farmingville, N.Y., died today after being hit in the head during a team conditioning exercise that involved players carrying a log overhead....
Looks Like The Mets Are Being Cheap Again
The Mets traded away inconsistently good outfielder Jay Bruce to the Indians yesterday in exchange for a non-prospect named Ryder Ryan....
Lenny Dykstra Doesn’t Dispute Sexual Harassment Claim, Admits Politics Make Him Horny
Caroline Heldman is associate professor of politics at Occidental College. In a Facebook post, she says Fox News host Eric Bolling sexually harassed her when she was a guest on the channel. She also says he referred to her as “Dr. McHottie” on air several times. (Bolling is currently suspended from ...
Why Your Team Sucks 2017: New Orleans Saints<em></em>
Some people are fans of the New Orleans Saints. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New Orleans Saints. This 2017 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here....
Cleveland Swaps Non-Prospect For Jay Bruce And His 29 Home Runs
The Mets have finally finished providing grist for the Jay Bruce rumor mill, sending the outfielder and his contract to Cleveland for minor-league reliever Ryder Ryan....
Bill Simmons's Rankings Of Patriots Wins, Ranked
Bill Simmons had his buddy Hench on his podcast yesterday. They ranked the best 25 Patriots wins since 2001. It took almost two hours and I listened to all of it. Here is the correct ranking of Simmons’s rankings, honorable mentions excluded....
Real-Life Father Neil Walker Learns That Fans Call Him Daddy: "I Guess I'm Flattered"
Daddy is a “slang term of affection used to address a male authority figure or idol in a sexualized manner,” according to Know Your Meme. Daddy is “meant to communicate respect/adoration to a male authority figure” with a “sexual tinge,” according to the Washington Post’s Memesplainer. Daddy is NOT ...
The Jets' Offense Has A Chance To Be Historically Awful
With Quincy Enunwa now out for the season with a neck injury, the Jets’ wide receiving corps will be led by ... well, um, let me know whether you’ve heard of any of these jamokes:...
Would You Be Interested In A Talk Show With Tom Brady And Jim Gray?
Tom Brady has slowly and carefully built up his own lifestyle brand in recent years, with his extravagant pajamas, rabbit food, and post-human, Russell Wilson-esque ad pitches delivered through the Patriots QB’s online presence. It appears that Brady might be dipping his toe into a half-hour web ser...
Let's Check In With The Jets
The following paragraph, from the MMQB’s Tim Rohan, does not appear to be intended as irony:...
Here's Noah Syndergaard's Cameo On <i>Game Of Thrones</i>
Wow, did you watch Game of Thrones last night? Wow! With the dragons, and the...elves? Elves, probably. And orcs, no doubt, seeking to regain the One Ring. And the TARDIS. Wow. (I don’t watch the show.) ...