nf Page 350 - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights

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...

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....

Racism is Why Your Favorite Team Might Have Drafted a Sorry White Quarterback
This is not a story about Black quarterbacks....

Football is the Perfect Reflection of America — That’s Not a Good Thing
They told us that sports were a reward for a functioning society. ...

No, Your iPhone Won't Autocorrect to a Racial Slur
In the past two weeks, there’s been a rash of white men blaming the slurs they let slip onto social media on typos and, by implication, autocorrect....
![Nine NFL Teams, Eight MLB Teams Join NBA, WNBA in Racial Justice Walkout [UPDATED]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/b9hvrfi9gkn2gstwodwi.jpg)
Nine NFL Teams, Eight MLB Teams Join NBA, WNBA in Racial Justice Walkout [UPDATED]
As the NBA continued its postponement Thursday after players protested police violence on Black lives, some NFL teams staged a smaller scale work strike of canceling practices....

New Report: Nude Cheerleader Video and Dan Snyder’s Direct Involvement in Alleged Sexual Harassment. UPDATE: Snyder Blasts WaPo, Blames Victim
More allegations about the toxic, sexist culture around Dan Snyder’s Washington Football Team have emerged, this time pointing to specific incidents involving Snyder and his treatment of women (including implied solicitation of sexual favors for a friend) and the production of X-rated cheerleader vi...
![Fox Sports Fires Thom Brennaman Day After Homophobic Slur, He Wants Us to Believe He Didn't Know its History [UPDATED]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/uaqhsykm54cacliwjady.jpg)
Fox Sports Fires Thom Brennaman Day After Homophobic Slur, He Wants Us to Believe He Didn't Know its History [UPDATED]
Wednesday night, after a hot mic caught him using a homophobic slur, Reds broadcaster Thom Brennaman didn’t know if he’d ever be putting on headphones for Fox Sports again....

Hornets Radio Play-by-Play Guy Somehow Tweets N-Word by Mistake
How do you accidentally type the N-word?...

We Can Usually Count on Ohio State to Produce Top-Tier Oblivious Athletes
If you ever need to find someone who doesn’t get it, you can generally consult Ohio State to come up with a candidate for you. That’s what we have currently with quarterback Justin Fields starting a petition, which currently has 200,000 signatures, to get the Big Ten to reverse its decision to not p...

NFL Agents: Fall Back From Spring NCAA Football Season Plan
If you’re a college football player either opting out of the fall season of your own accord or part of the BIG-10 or PAC-12 or other conference/school-mandated cancellations, the message from a number of NFL agents is clear:...