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NFL prepares for less than 16 games, which probably means not all teams will get to 16 games
It’s pointless to bemoan the NFL not pausing or just outright stopping its season. There’s too much money, they’re too far into it, they’d never admit a mistake, we know all the reasons. It certainly seems like the NFL is admitting that it’s going to get worse before it gets better, as yesterday the...

NFL Week 9 Powerless Rankings: The race to the bottom stumbles on
It’s time once again to highlight the teams stinking up the joint every single week....

NFL Week 9 morsels: Tua outlasts Murray after baby-legged FG attempt, Giants win by default, Bills score at will against Seattle
Another NFL Sunday is in the books. The league continues to push through this season even though COVID cases continue to pop up all around the league....

Easily, Lamar Jackson’s feat is better than Patrick Mahomes’
Two of the best and brightest quarterbacks in the NFL made news on Sunday....

Is this…a pair of shorts on Keith Burns’ face?
Yes, that is a pair of athletic shorts on an NFL coach’s face....

Colts quarterback Philip Rivers runs like an infant sheep before making worst tackle attempt in history
Colts quarterback Philip Rivers just gave us the worst tackle attempt I might have ever seen from a professional athlete....

No one wants the football in the NFC East
We’re minutes into football Sunday and normalcy has returned to America. The NFC East is a complete joke, again....

Roger Goodell, Rob Manfred, and Adam Silver are showing themselves during this pandemic
The idea of leadership has consumed us this year....

Sunday Scaries: The Week 9 bets to avoid
I write the Sunday Scaries at the end of each week. Every time I write, I wonder if that inevitable positive test or team outbreak will lead to a canceled game (and one you should avoid betting)....

It had to be the Raiders, didn’t it?
For as much as the Pats get shit for it, mostly because they were the most successful, every football team loves to find ways to flout the rules. It’s what they do. If you ain’t cheatin’, you ain’t tryin’ as the saying goes. You have to be willing to do what the other guy won’t. That’s the defining ...

The NFL is plowing ahead, despite all logic
We knew when the NFL decided to go ahead with the season as scheduled, it had very little flexibility. This isn’t baseball that can pile on double-headers or fill up off-days. The NFL only has teams’ bye weeks to bounce around and that’s what they’ve done, on a limited basis. Which is why there’s no...

Brett Favre loses another one late
It’s kind of adorable, the way Brett Favre thinks he’s helping. It’s always been adorable. The way that Favre took the “ol’ backcountry gunslinger” label to heart and really thought he was the nameless stranger riding in, pulling his jacket collar up, to save the town from the black-hatted sheriff. ...

Trent Brown’s past few weeks have been brutal
After a whirlwind of a month, Trent Brown was released from the hospital Monday. He had an adverse reaction after air seeped into his bloodstream while an I.V. was being administered before the Raiders Sunday game against Cleveland....

Here’s how Charles Johnson’s GOP candidates of choice fared yesterday
In September, a Deadspin analysis of Charles Johnson’s political donations showed that the owner of the San Francisco Giants had given $1.7 million to Republican causes in 2020 alone, including donations to 46 individual candidates....

49ers shut down team facilities after positive COVID-19 test
Once again, the NFL is an embarrassment to society. ...

We’ve seen enough of the NFC East this season, NFL, please adopt WNBA playoff structure
We all know bad the NFC East is this season. They are the butt of all the jokes....

My God, please stop putting the NFC East in primetime
If you watched this game on Sunday Night Football — a 23-9 Eagles win over the Cowboys — I would just like to take this time to say a prayer for you....

In preview of what could lie ahead for MLS and the NFL, USL cancels championship as squad faces COVID outbreak
The USL, the country’s second-division soccer league, canceled its championship game yesterday between the Tampa Bay Rowdies and Phoenix Rising, due to multiple players and staff on Tampa Bay testing positive for COVID-19. The decision was made because of the amount of time and the amount of players...

Rob Manfred does what he does best: Pass off responsibility
Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrongIt’s an oldie, but still true. Perhaps it’s unfair to the Dodgers that perhaps the enduring image of their World Series win will be Justin Turner returning to the field to celebrate after testing positive for COVID-19. Maybe that’s what Turner and the Dodgers deser...
