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Here's The "Integrity Of The Game" Honor Code The NFL Says Brady Broke
For the first time—as far as we can tell—the NFL’s secret honor oath has become public, as part of the NFLPA’s lawsuit over Tom Brady’s suspension. It’s this “Integrity Of The Game Certification” upon which the NFL has hinged its four-game ban on the Patriots quarterback, and yet the text of this ho...
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Here Is The Transcript From Tom Brady's Appeal Hearing [UPDATED]
The NFLPA has filed their suit against the NFL over Tom Brady’s four-game suspension in New York federal court today, after their gambit to have the suit heard in Minnesota was rejected. Judge Richard Berman declined to allow the parties to confidentially submit supporting materials under seal, and ...
Chris Mortensen Unsatisfyingly Explains His Erroneous PSI Report
The first report that something fishy had occurred with the footballs during the AFC Championship game came from Bob Kravitz, a reporter for Indianapolis’s WTHR. But it was Chris Mortensen’s report the next day that 11 of the 12 footballs were under inflated by two pounds that turned what had been a...
D.A.: Aaron Hernandez And Tipster Had "Sexually Explicit Relationship"
Yes, there’s still legal wrangling over Aaron Hernandez’s guilty conviction in the murder of Odin Lloyd. This particular spat is about a tipster who anonymously called one of Hernandez’s defense lawyers multiple times, claiming one of the jurors might have been “untruthful.” For example, she said th...
Attempt To Ride Bike In Flood Results In Taking Header On Live TV
If you haven’t heard, the Tampa Bay area’s been under a siege of precipitation for weeks, culminating today in flooding throughout the South Tampa area and even up north into Pasco County. It’s wreaked havoc on the Buccaneers’ practice schedule and most people’s work schedules, and here’s someone wh...
Teenage Marv Albert, Knicks Ballboy, Dished On Team Roadtrip In HS Paper
Everyone has to get their start somewhere, and for one of pro sports’ preeminent voices, his entry into the sports world started at the very bottom. Before becoming Marv Albert: Voice Of The NBA, he was Marvin Aufrichtig: New York Knicks Ball-Busting Ballboy....
José Mourinho Has No Use For This Loser's Medal, Or For Arsène Wenger
Arsenal beat Chelsea 1-0 today to win their second straight Community Shield, and it appears Chelsea manager José Mourinho has about as much use for the match as the rest of us. Here he is avoiding congratulating rival manager Arsène Wenger and then throwing his second-place medal up into the crowd....
Cryin' Wilmer Flores, Still A Met, Hits 12th-Inning Walkoff
Two days ago Wilmer Flores was crying on the field, thinking the Mets had traded him away. Tonight, the shortstop cranked a 12th-inning walkoff to give his team—still the Mets—a 2-1 win over Washington....
The First Photos Of Jason Pierre-Paul's Bandaged, Blown-Up Hand
The Giants have no idea how many fingers Jason Pierre-Paul has left, and JPP hasn’t called to tell them. Reports earlier this month were that he’d lost his index finger, but that’s still unconfirmed. New photos from the NY Daily News don’t have hard evidence one way or another, but they make his han...
Taylor Swift Is Seinfeld's Daughter, And The Diplomat NYC Deserves
Across the ’90s, few pieces of music were more ubiquitous than a winding slap-bass jingle composed by studio musician Jonathan Wolff. Every week, tens of millions of Americans heard it open and close Seinfeld, a sitcom so beloved that even its kitschy theme song has become iconic. At the beginning o...
Chris Mortensen Won't Talk About Being Fed False Info By The NFL
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Cops Say Sheldon Richardson Raced Bentley 143 MPH, Refused To Pull Over
New York Jets defensive end Sheldon Richardson is facing charges of resisting arrest along with “numerous traffic violations” after refusing to pull over for a traffic stop near St. Louis earlier this month, a local prosecutor announced today. But what really stands out are the speeds that police sa...
Mets Blow Game, Mets Grounds Crew Blows Rain Delay
Rain forced a 45-minute delay in Queens today as the Mets were an out away from finishing up a win over San Diego. That delay was lifted just long enough for Jeurys Familia to give up the lead thanks to a three-run Justin Upton homer—which forced a bottom of the ninth. Well, that bottom of the ninth...
Why Your Team Sucks 2015: New York Giants
Some people are fans of the New York Giants. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New York Giants. This 2015 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. ...
Report: The Mets Backed Out Of The Carlos Gomez Trade Because Of Money
After everyone finally got clear of the #LOLMets Twitter storm that whipped up around last night’s botched trade between the Mets and Brewers, we were given what seemed like a reasonable explanation for why the deal fell apart: the Mets were worried about Carlos Gomez’s bum hip. But a new report cla...
How The Botched Mets Trade Went Down
So: who screwed up? Who was responsible for Wilmer Flores’s tears, and for the Brewers’ goodbye messages to Carlos Gomez, and for the Mets becoming a punchline yet again? And who’s to thank for the most entertaining sports Twitter night since DeAndre Jordan?...
Wilmer Flores Cries After Learning He'd Been Traded, Stays In The Game (UPDATE)
At around 9:00 p.m., the Mets reportedly agreed to a deal with the Brewers to trade Zack Wheeler and Wilmer Flores for Carlos Gomez:...
Tom Brady And The NFLPA Sue The NFL In Federal Court Over Suspension
Following through on what they promised after Roger Goodell upheld Tom Brady’s four game suspension for his part in the deflation of footballs prior to the AFC Championship game against the Colts, Brady and the NFL Players Association filed suit against the NFL in federal court, seeking to vacate th...