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Best landing spots for WR Mike Evans
The Tampa Bay Buccaneers and wide receiver Mike Evans were unable to come to an agreement on a contract extension, meaning that the five-time Pro Bowler is set to hit free agency. Evans is a model of consistency, having never finished a season with fewer than 1,000 receiving yards. His 10 consecutiv...
In this age of unprecendent access, we should take inside info with a grain of salt
We are in the age of the easiest, most direct access we’ve ever seen. That goes triple for sports which can be a good thing. But we’ve gotten to the point where we have so much access that it’s begun to have the opposite effect and become negative in many situations. With all the information thrown ...
5 increasingly unhinged solutions to the NBA All-Star Game
As the NBA has observed its golden era of efficiency proliferate from more streamlined offenses to load management run amok, elements of the league have fallen by the wayside. Marquee hoopers play fewer minutes, fewer games and now they barely expend energy or cross halfcourt during All-Star Weekend...
College Football Playoff committee approves 12-team postseason format
The College Football Playoff is officially expanded. ...
The NBA All-Star Game has never been better!
Welcome to Deadspin’s The Sports Nihilist, where all is for naught, and we are but accidental jolts of electrified meat stuck to the surface of a rock in an indifferent universe....
Mike Tannebaum's Jets prediction makes you wonder how he ever became a GM in the first place
A Get Up segment by former NFL general manager Mike Tannenbaum just created a hypothetical NFL locker room so chaotic it hurts to think about. ...
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Antonio Brown won't pay jeweler for finger pieces that he says fuels 'super orgasms' [Update]
Updated March 9: Antonio Brown has been ordered by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge to pay Shuki International, the creator of the crystalized finger cover jewelry $1,095,000 because Brown has failed to return the borrowed pieces to their owner....
Kenny Smith ruined Sabrina Ionescu's moment
Let’s take a look at a few of the comments after Steph Curry and Sabrina Ionescu squared off in a 3-point shooting contest on Saturday night, Curry topping the Liberty star by just 3 points, 29-26, both shooting from the NBA arc....
Who is Mr. Franchise for each NBA team in the 21st century?
Michael Jordan will always be synonymous with the Chicago Bulls. Same thing for Magic Johnson with the Los Angeles Lakers and Larry Bird with the Boston Celtics. But since the turn of the 21st Century, some teams have gone a decade without a face of the franchise (think the Detroit Pistons and Orlan...
As the Thunder return to contention, let's not forget the Supersonics
The Oklahoma City Thunder have executed one of the shortest rebuilding periods in NBA history. Since the breakup of the Kevin Durant/Russell Westbrook pairing, leading into the current Thunder 2.0, only lasted three seasons of extreme tanking. Those losing efforts netted them the sixth pick in the ...
Caitlin Clark and Patrick Mahomes have caused us to lose perspective
We are simultaneously living in an age where the best to ever play are on their way out and the best who ever lived are authoring their geneses. Recency bias is running rampant in the early stages of 2020. This month, we’ve simultaneously witnessed the crowning of Patrick Mahomes and Caitlin Clark a...
The NBA dunk contest is crapshoot that lacks star power
NBA All-Star Saturday was a hit once again, but one of the main events may have missed the mark. The slam dunk contest at one time was the highlight of the entire weekend. Now it’s hit or miss, year-to-year, whether we’ll be talking about it for weeks or if it’ll be forgotten by Monday afternoon. Th...
Ever wonder what an NBA game would look like, <i>Spiderman </i>style?
The NBA kicked off its All-Star weekend with a celebrity game where influencers, NFL players, and WNBA stars got to attempt the sport’s first-ever eight-point shot. But the real “innovation” for basketball came hours before Stephen A. and Shannon Sharpe’s teams took the LED court. ...
War on trans girls in sports grows; Uproar over Fanatics-made MLB jerseys; DC tells Leonsis to kiss off with arena bid
When I was in school, I had a friend who was a fantastic athlete (she still is). She was tall, thin, wore her hair short and could keep up with any of the guys in gym class and outperform 90 percent of them in just about any sport. She didn’t wear makeup and her wardrobe consisted mostly of gender-n...
Shannon Sharpe needs a rescue; 49ers turn on themselves; Let's look at who couldn't have gotten away with what Travis Kelce did
OK, it’s time somebody said something, and since no one else has, here we go. Shannon Sharpe, the Hall of Fame tight end has made quite a mark on the sports media landscape over the past several years. But lately, he’s been wilding out to the point where it seems either Unc Shay Shay or Shannon may ...
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Missouri prosecutors charge 2 adults in Chiefs Super Bowl parade shooting [Update]
Updated Feb. 20: Missouri prosecutors have officially filed murder charges against two adults after last week’s shooting that killed one and injured 22 during the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade....
Sports agency wants NFL prospects to avoid pre-Draft test that C.J. Stroud reportedly bombed
The S2 cognition test may go the way of the Wonderlic. According to a report from The Athletic one sports agency is directing its NFL Draft prospects to not participate in any cognition tests in their pre-draft process this year. The organization, Athletes First, emailed NFL teams last month to noti...
Apparently you can get a college scholarship to play cornhole
Perhaps you’ve played cornhole during a backyard BBQ, or at a tailgate before a college or pro football game....
Bellyaching over missed Chiefs holding calls is peak NFL Karen-ism
The annual post-Super Bowl commiserating over uncalled penalties on the NFL’s biggest stage is a sign that the seasons are changing. In the days after the Super Bowl, that sweet Internet copium is a sign that the NBA’s All-Star Weekend must be right around the corner. Finally, we’ll have a major eve...
Wait until you hear what the Kansas City Royals want to do
If you think the Oakland A’s have a lot of nerve in asking for taxpayers to fund their new stadium on the Las Vegas strip to the tune of $380 million in public funding, wait until you hear what the Royals are doing in Kansas City. ...