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Islanders Learning There Just Might Not Be Anything They Can Do
Buzzer-beaters are supposed to be the territory of the NBA’s Orlando bubble, but the Tampa Bay Lightning moved the phenomenon 2800 miles to the Northwest on Wednesday night. Nikita Kucherov capped off the Bolts’ best offensive foray of the night by scoring off Ryan McDonagh’s cross-ice pass with jus...
The Deadspin 2020 NFL Previews, NFC South: All Eyes on Tompa Bay & Brees’ Last Stand
Outside of Tom Brady stunning the sports world by joining the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, the NFC South will be a key watch for plenty of other reasons....
It’s Always Important to Stop and Laugh at the Yankees
Some will disregard this baseball season as an experimental farce (and it basically is), and they will do it even more so and with more passion as their teams slip further down the standings. So you can expect a lot of cries of “Charlatan!” from New York in the coming days, and it’s not like Yankees...
The Deadspin 2020 NFL Previews, AFC East: Tom’s Gone. Who’s Got Next?
For the past two decades, the safest bet in sports was for the to win their division. Not anymore....
The Deadspin 2020 NFL Previews, NFC East: Can Anyone Break Up This Two-Horse Town?
There was a time not too long ago when the NFC East was considered one of the most competitive divisions in football. Over the past decade, the division has had two Super Bowl winners (Eagles, Giants), exciting Washington teams and the Dallas Cowboys. But the days of parity in the NFC East are over....
Project ShaqBox Remembers Tom Seaver
I don’t know if I ever saw Tom Seaver pitch live. His last season was when I was 5, so it’s possible that at some point my parents did take me to a game where Seaver was on the mound, but if that happened, I don’t remember it....
We Rank the NBA's Coaching Carousel Openings
We have arrived at “that” point in the NBA season. ...
Maybe Fair-Weather Fans Are Actually Good for Sports
Last year, just after the Washington Nationals improbably clinched the NLCS to earn a berth in the World Series, a local news reporter outside of National Park waded into the celebration....
Marc-Andre Fleury's Agent Tweeted this Picture
As an athlete, you always want to know that your agent has your back, but this is certainly a strange spin on that concept....
The Mets Are Diseased - No, For Real This Time
While they’ve pretty much been a plague their entire existence, never have the New York Mets come across being an actual incubus themselves. At least of an actual virus. ...
Do You Mind If We Dance With Your Dates? - NHL First Round Preview: Eastern Conference
In a bit of true hockey hilarity, the actual NHL bubble-ized playoffs will begin without either of the “hosts” on Tuesday. Both the Toronto Maple Leafs and Edmonton Oilers scheduled a date for their respective faces with the pavement, and hence will have to watch these modified playoffs take place i...
Late, Great Pete Hamill Almost Assuredly Giving Walter O'Malley the Business Already in Afterlife
The great Pete Hamill, an icon of New York City and journalism, died on Wednesday. He was 85. According to an obituary written by Larry McShane of the New York Daily News:...
The Mourning After: Canes Eliminate Rangers, Plague-Ravaged Marlins Blank Orioles
We’ve had our first ejection out of the NHL bubble, as the New York Rangers never came close to beating the Carolina Hurricanes and have hence been punted out of Toronto. I hope they line them outside the hotel and loudly shut the gate behind them as all the players of the teams still competing watc...
The Mourning After: Casualties Mount In Baseball (Evergreen Headline Right Now tbh)
The baseball season made up of duct tape and used chewing gum continued to roll on. The Cardinals and Tigers series this week was postponed, while the infected Cardinals were rented cars to drive themselves from Milwaukee back to St. Louis. No word on whether the doors on said cars were controlled r...
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Quinton Dunbar’s Crooked Lawyer, Accused of Witness Tampering, Could Be Disbarred for Political Corruption [UPDATED]
Update (August 4, 12:00 p.m.): The Florida Bar confirmed that it has opened a second investigation into Michael Grieco, centered around the lawmaker’s alleged witness tampering in the ongoing Quinton Dunbar/DeAndre Baker armed robbery case. ...
Baseball Has a New Hero, and His Name Is Judge
MLB’s messiah has arrived....
The Mourning After: Last Night's Most Troubling News This Morning
While the Mets were pulling their weekly Mets’ing with Yoenis Cespedes and his decision to opt-out/Irish goodbye the season, the rest of the league continues to try and treat the Coronavirus much like an annoying co-worker with the hopes that if you wait until lunch to walk by their desk, everything...
Yoenis Cespedes Opts Out but Doesn’t Tell the Mets
Yoenis Cespedes went missing in action this afternoon, sparking a brief panic and outpouring of concern for the Mets slugger’s safety — but now, it appears he chose to opt out of the season without first letting team management know....
Ain’t a Sheet of Ice North of Fargo I Ain’t Played: NHL’s Return Preview – Eastern Conference
The winter sports and their summer bubbles return to us this weekend, because we’re descending into the Upside-Down. The NHL has decamped to Toronto and Edmonton, with a modified playoff system kicking straight off on Saturday. It’s a bit run-before-you-can-walk, with each team only getting one pres...
A Farcical Stroll Through an All-New York MLB Season (Including the Brooklyn Dodgers!)
Listen, this whole idea is ludicrous, BUUUUUT just hear me out …...