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Quick, what hat says, ‘I’m fun but also grieving 7 dead horses’?Here at Deadspin, we take a wait-and-see approach to covering horse racing. Every year, someone will pitch a Kentucky Derby preview and either get laughed out of the writer’s room or ignored. The only reason we wrote about the 2022 iteration was because long shot Rich Strike won at 80-1, and his tra...

Frank Gore will likely retire with an extremely clean 16,000 rushing yards over 16 seasonsFrank Gore is a damn legend and you will never convince me otherwise....

The Gross Racism that Cheated the Legacy of Dick AllenDick Allen was a seven-time All-Star, the 1964 National League Rookie of the Year, and the 1972 American League MVP. He won two home run titles, led his league in on-base percentage twice and OPS four times....

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Look At All These Crazy Stats From This NBA Season

Join me on a short journey through some neat NBA stats from the 2016-17 regular season....

Oh, Will You Shut Up About Defense Already?

So, we’ve been bickering about the NBA’s MVP award the past couple days; it’s March, the sports calendar is dead, people get bored, you start fighting over this sort of thing to pass the time. I blogged about it yesterday; Tom Scocca blogged about it today. Both times, the crux of the argument has b...

Are You Sure Russell Westbrook Should Be MVP? Consider These Stats

An NBA season is not a triple-double-getting contest. Yesterday, Albert Burneko argued that the discussion about who deserves the NBA Most Valuable Player award has lately gone off track—that Russell Westbrook, averaging a triple-double for the Oklahoma City Thunder, has been so thoroughly and overw...

Is there an NFL conspiracy against the uniform number 69? One theory raised here posits that equipment managers assign it to players they expect to get cut. [Vocativ]...