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Howard Eskin's So Excited About The Sixers' Trade, He Can't Type
What’s your favorite typo in this Howard Eskin tweet that seems like it was composed while the author was falling down the stairs?...
The Long Death Of A Failed Ballplayer
This story originally appeared in the August, 1980 issue of Inside Sports and appears here with permission. ...
Ron Jaworski Is Using Someone Else's Data Without Attribution
Until he got swept away by the recent round of layoffs, Ron Jaworski dissected Xs and Os for several of ESPN’s NFL-related programs. Those gigs gave him a prominent platform from which he could draw heavily on his knowledge as a former NFL quarterback. Jaworski still loves to boast about how much ta...
Field Mic Catches Mexico Coach Calling Someone A "Motherfucker"
Mexico beat New Zealand 2-1 in a Confederations Cup match today, but the game wasn’t stress-free for El Tri. Mexico went into halftime down 1-0, and their manager, Juan Carlos Osorio, got into a heated exchange with the New Zealand sideline less than a half hour into the match....
Minor League GM Apologizes For Razzing Tim Tebow
Tim Tebow, who used to be a bad NFL player and is now a bad minor-league baseball player with the Columbia Fireflies, took some ribbing from the Charleston RiverDogs this past weekend. Now the RiverDogs are very sorry about it....
Sam Hinkie Leveraged The Orbit Of The Earth To Effectuate Snow Disruption
It’s been a good week for Sixers fans. The team used just one first-rounder from its draft-pick surplus to move up to the No. 1 spot in the NBA Draft, where it will take Markelle Fultz. That gives the team a young corps of Fultz, Ben Simmons, Dario Šarić, and, of course, Joel Embiid. No one really k...
Reports: Hawks Send Dwight Howard To Hornets For Marco Belinelli, Miles Plumlee
Draft Week trade mania—it’s happening!...
David Brooks: My Judgment Is Appallingly Bad, Therefore Listen To Me
In the abstract, David Brooks’s choice to begin today’s Times column about the assorted Trump/Russia investigations with the following isn’t necessarily a bad one....
Jon Gruden's Hulked-Out Son Deuce Is Now A Champion Powerlifter
Deuce Gruden (born Jon Gruden II) is an assistant strength and conditioning coach with his uncle Jay’s NFL team, and he’s also a tiny, powerful weightlifting genius. The 23-year-old is 5-foot-5 and he told TMZ earlier this afternoon that he can squat 622 pounds, which seems like a lot....
The Deadspin Guide To Riding Your Damn Bike<em></em>
Out on the street where you live, it’s finally summer. Maybe this means that the world outside your door is as hot as the surface of the sun or the trees have conspired to drown you in allergens, but regardless, winter has finally gone and died and guess what; it’s time to ride your bicycle....
10 Years Ago, WWE Killed Vince McMahon In Its Most Ridiculous Storyline Ever
When you watch WWE programming for a long time, certain patterns emerge, ranging from production quirks to how matches are laid out to certain tropes that consistently recur in the storytelling. One of these is the way WWE lets show its utter contempt for its audience. Hell, it showed up recently wh...
Fox Still Sucks At Broadcasting Golf, Keeping Golfers' Girlfriends Straight
So Brooks Koepka won the U.S. Open at Erin Hills today, bringing to a merciful end Fox’s awful efforts at airing golf—for the weekend, at least. The network went out with a typical bang of a blunder: picking out the wrong Brooks Koepka girlfriend....
And Now We Present Tim Tebow Hurling His Bat Into The Second Deck
Here we have brawny sports heartthrob Tim Tebow losing his grip on a bat and yanking it 30 rows into the stands in Charleston, South Carolina: ...
Rating Pro Wrestling's New "Best Match Ever" Is Way More Contentious Than It Needs To Be<em></em><em></em>
This week, much has been made of the main event of New Japan Pro Wrestling’s annual Dominion event, which took place on Sunday. IWGP heavyweight champion Kazuchika Okada and challenger Kenny Omega went to a 60-minute time-limit draw, the hallmark of classic title matches for decades. It came five mo...
Darren Baker, Once Nearly World Series Roadkill, Was Drafted By The Nationals
Darren Baker, the son of Nationals skipper Dusty Baker and probably best known for almost being trampled at home plate during the 2002 World Series, was selected by the Nationals on Wednesday in the 27th round of the MLB Draft. We’re all so very old....
Tennis Player Loses Match After Being Penalized For Calling Himself A "Stupid Person"
Brydan Klein, the Australian-born British tennis player who was banned from the sport for six months in 2009 for racially abusing an opponent, was assessed an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty during his ATP Nottingham Challenger match on Thursday for calling himself a “stupid person” after he dumped ...
Columnist: What This Nation Needs Is For More Sports Teams To Be Nice To Donald Trump<em></em>
Maybe you have heard that some or all of the Golden State Warriors may decline an invitation to celebrate their NBA championship at Donald Trump’s White House, if Donald Trump chooses to invite them, which he has not yet. Maybe you have also heard that yesterday morning, an angry man with Bernie San...
Indiana Lost Money Playing In Its Bowl Game
The number of postseason college football bowls has steadily ballooned from a sensible number of games featuring only the best teams in the nation to the stultifying monstrosity we have today, where 82 teams (including several with losing records) play each other in increasingly irrelevant games spr...
If You've Ever Wanted To Hear Stephen A. Smith Talk About Fucking, Here You Go
The Big Lead’s Stephen Douglas has done the world a service today by discovering some old clips of Stephen A. Smith talking about sex, relationships, and what an accomplished sex-doer he is....
Myles Garrett Is (Still) Hurt
The Browns, impressively, did not screw up their draft, taking DE Myles Garrett with the first overall pick. But offseason activities have barely begun and already there may be reason to worry....