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The Dez Bryant pregame meet-and-greet the Ravens don't want you to see
By now, you know that Dez Bryant tested positive for COVID-19 just minutes before last night’s game....

MLB knows what it wants to do with the DH, it just doesn’t want to pay for it
Now that the baseball Winter Meetings have begun, such as they are in this altered pandemic-form, some real moves are being made. Lance Lynn and Adam Eaton have joined the White Sox either via trade or signing, Carlos Santana has got on the Royals express to 72 wins, and rumors are flying after the ...

Week 13 Powerless Rankings: Wading through the NFL’s putrid muck
It’s time once again to highlight the teams stinking up the joint every single week....

Browns are no longer worse than three-week-old sewage
You know it’s 2020 when the Cleveland Browns are being considered for Super Bowl contention....

Despite it being 2020, Browns pass torch of dumpster-fire clown car, kinda deserve respect
The Cleveland Browns do not look like themselves of late, meaning they are no longer the laughingstock of the NFL....

The long, strange path of Brandon Graham, quietly one of the best players in Eagles history
It wasn’t quite Eagles fans booing Donovan McNabb at the podium for the crime of not being Rickey Williams at the 1999 draft, but no one was happy with the Eagles’ first selection in the 2010 Draft, either....

Karl-Anthony Towns tells of unimaginable loss of seven family members due to COVID-19, including his mother
Karl-Anthony Towns revealed Friday that his life has been hell on Earth since the pandemic began....

Last days of Le Batard start with a little ‘Freedom,’ an analysis of Goofy and disparagement clauses
On the morning after ESPN announced Dan Le Batard’s departure from the company, effective January 4, the Le Batard Show played George Michael’s ‘Freedom’ to begin their radio show for two minutes without speaking....

NHL still silent as greedy owners proving they can never have enough
As is always the case, every so often you look up and wonder, “Hey, how come I haven’t heard from the NHL in a while?” And the answer always comes back, “Oh right, because they’re galactically stupid.” And then you go on about your life. It’s good to have solid things to hold onto at this point in t...

Giant diaper baby Jerry Jones throws Andy Dalton under the bus in quest for your sympathy
Jerry Jones constantly proves that the depth of his idiocy will never be fully comprehended....

The Makur Maker experiment at Howard was never going to work and already off to a bad start
When Makur Maker, a five-star recruit and projected NBA Draft pick, announced that he was going to play college basketball this season at Howard University — an HBCU — people said a power shift was on the horizon, especially given the racial and social uprisings that have taken place in 2020....

Week 12 Powerless Rankings: Jets remain terrible, as does NFC East
It’s time once again to highlight the teams stinking up the joint every single week....

Jaret Patterson rushes for 409 yards, 8 TDs
Kevin Marks Jr. had a big day for Buffalo on Saturday, running 16 times for 97 yards and a pair of touchdowns....

Broncos have no eligible QBs — too bad Colin Kaepernick is totally available
The Broncos are supposed to play the Saints on Sunday. ...

Sarah Fuller kicks historic first as a woman playing in a Power 5 football game
Sarah Fuller made history as the first woman to play football for a Power 5 school. But because she did it for Vanderbilt, she had to wait a while to do it....

Canceling the Pinstripe Bowl for public safety is an outrage that may be NYC's ruin
They closed the subways at night in New York City, and that was fine, because the subways are, and have been, crime-infested hell holes....

The Thanksgiving spreads: Deadspin’s Turkey Day picks ATS
Welcome to the first and last edition of the Thanksgiving spreads 2020....

College hoops returns during a pandemic so we can have an 81-point blowout nobody needed
A tweet on Wednesday afternoon that got 10,000 retweets and quote tweets, and nearly 40,000 likes in the first six hours it was up showed a score of No. 1 South Carolina 119, College of Charleston 7....
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Enjoy a Thanksgiving Daily Fantasy spread with all the trimmings [Updated]
It’s late on Wednesday night before Thanksgiving as I write this (but you probably won’t read this until Thursday morning, like a normal person). Maybe your turkey is brining, maybe it’s resting in your fridge, maybe it’s on the smoker, maybe you aren’t doing a turkey at all. Whatever Thanksgiving l...
