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Expanded Playoffs Suck, But Here’s a Way to Fix It
Rob Manfred says this season’s expanded baseball playoffs are likely to remain in place for 2021 and beyond, and everybody hates it....
Six Months After Rudy Gobert, 2020 is an Ever-Worsening Hellscape
The six-month mark came and went with hardly any notice, but it did come and go. It’s now been more than half a year since Rudy Gobert, days after jokingly touching all the microphones at a press conference, tested positive for COVID-19 and effectively shut down the sports world....
Players Breathe Toxic Air as West Coast Burns: What the Hell Is Wrong With Baseball? UPDATE: M's Postponed
Update: Amid western wildfires and hazardous air quality, the MLB and NFL continued to play on Monday night, but on Tuesday, sanity was restore....
Why It Doesn't Matter if Baker Mayfield Kneels
Let’s get a few things straight off the jump. ...
10-Piece Lemon Pepper: How the Record-Breaking 10 Black Quarterbacks Did in Week 1
Marlin Briscoe must have been beaming with pride....
Dallas Is Mediocre, Tom Brady Is Old, and the Eagles Are Folding: Our Sunday Takeaways
The NFL season is here....
With Bay Area Air Even Worse Than Last Week’s ‘Orange Sky,’ Niners’ Kickoff Leaves Players in Danger
Last Wednesday, the Oakland A’s played a night game hours after as the Bay Area turned into an orange hellscape. The stunning visuals, and the underlying poor air quality, made national headlines. Now, the air quality is even worse — and while it probably won’t stop the San Francisco 49ers from kick...
Deadspin Over/Under Bet of the Week: Pats Begin Life Without Brady
Over/Under: 41.5...
NFL's Cluelessness on BLM Exposes Fake Team Unity & Not Caring a Lick for Players' Communities
If the NFL owners and front office thought that adding Lift Every Voice and Sing to the pre-game program would mollify more players than it put off fans, they were likely wrong on both counts....
Watson and Mahomes Prove the NFL As You Knew It No Longer Exists
The NFL will never be the same....
Mike Tirico and Roger Goodell Are Starting the Season With a Useless Conversation About Race
Here comes the bullsh*t....
The Deadspin 2020 NFL Previews, NFC West: American Football’s Equivalent of the Group of Death
The NFC West may be one of the most exciting divisions in the league this season....
The Deadspin 2020 NFL Previews, AFC West: The Home of the Champs and a New Football Town in Vegas
For many football fans, the AFC West standings are already a foregone conclusion....
Caster Semenya Loses Her Appeal, But Nobody Wins
The continuing case of South African runner Caster Semenya and her fight against the IAAF’s restrictions on her, and others’, bodies reached its likely conclusion Tuesday. ...
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....
The Deadspin 2020 NFL Previews, AFC South: Who Will Emerge as This Year’s January Darlings?
The AFC South likely will not be a division at the top of most people’s radars to start the year....
Republicans Are Using Big Ten Athletes as Pawns in a Sick Game
Legislators in battleground states are once again pushing for the Big Ten to resume college football this fall....
The Deadspin 2020 NFL Previews, AFC North: Young Guns and Scumbag Ben
This is yet another division that seems to be perennially up for grabs between a couple of teams, at least on paper, but unlike the NFC North, this division is fresh and exciting. A rookie quarterback! An MVP quarterback that Bill Polian wanted to convert to wide receiver! An annual dogfight to the ...
The Deadspin 2020 NFL Previews, NFC North: The 'No One Else Wanted to Preview This Stale Division' Division
As usual, the road to . . . well, maybe not the Super Bowl, but at least the playoffs goes through Green Bay. And while Aaron Rodgers and the Packers aren’t as dominant as they once were, despite going 13-3 in Matt LaFleur’s first season as a head coach, no one else in the division has really steppe...