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Illini look fine, say 'GG' to Huskers
Illinois hasn’t had a lot to smile about, football-wise, this season. Or most seasons, really....
Leverkusen keeper puts foot in mouth with botched kick leading to hilarious own goal: See it!
Lukas Hradecky is a Slovak-born goalie who plays internationally for Finland and professionally in Germany with Bayer Leverkusen. Isn’t it odd, then, that his problem on Saturday was putting too much English on the ball?...
Turns out NHL owner greed is right on time for once & could save lives — no, really
The NHL’s return to action this summer came after negotiations not only to solidify health and safety protocols, but on a new collective bargaining agreement. Having endured a canceled season in 2004-05, and lockout-shortened campaigns in 1995 and 2013, everyone in the sport knew that it was importa...
What do Cal McNair’s comments today even mean? Who knows, just sell the Texans
It’s time for Cal McNair to sell the Houston Texans....
It would be ‘so much awesome’ if baseball writers kept Curt Schilling out of Hall of Fame until he’s dead
Curt Schilling is on the Hall of Fame ballot for the ninth time, his next-to-last opportunity to be voted into Cooperstown by the Baseball Writers Association of America. He seems fairly likely to make it, having appeared on 70 percent of ballots a year ago, just 5 percent shy of the threshold for i...
Meet the NFL's 10 poorest owners
There are ballers and then there are the big ballers....
Bucks’ Sterling Brown becomes latest police brutality victim to receive a settlement
Now that things are starting to unwind from the 2020 presidential election, our attention to the pressing matters confronting this country can’t waver. ...
A week of simple joys continues
We’ve all gotten to breathe a bit this past weekend. It doesn’t mean the weight of the world isn’t still turning all of our postures into a question mark, but for a brief moment, it did feel like we were getting more oxygen into our lungs and standing up straight without shooting pain. It’ll be impo...
Don’t get it twisted, Tom Brady isn’t in this for Antonio Brown, he’s in it for himself
Just pump the brakes on handing Tom Brady the Humanitarian of the Year award....
Deadspin Fixes Stuff: Two new expansion teams could solve MLB’s cash 'problems' right now
With MLB now in the overture of its musical, entitled “Winter of Discontent,” they’re still making it clear just how desperate they want people to think things are. My colleague has written about Cleveland’s desperate “need” to move Francisco Lindor before they have to pay him anything close to what...
Trent Brown’s past few weeks have been brutal
After a whirlwind of a month, Trent Brown was released from the hospital Monday. He had an adverse reaction after air seeped into his bloodstream while an I.V. was being administered before the Raiders Sunday game against Cleveland....
The Doug Polk and Daniel Negreanu grudge match for the ages is finally on
Poker archrivals Daniel Negreanu and Doug Polk, who have been beefing on Twitter for years, will meet on the felt in a classic HU4ROLLZ challenge starting 8 p.m. EST tonight at the Aria, which will be televised for free on PokerGo.com. The two will play $200/$400, with the first 200 hands being play...
![Nyheim Hines’ badass spin move for TD isn’t even the most impressive part [UPDATED]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/rzw5llkjrzrmdhcv92vj.png)
Nyheim Hines’ badass spin move for TD isn’t even the most impressive part [UPDATED]
Update - HE DID IT AGAIN:...
Baker Mayfield needs to beat a real damn team before crowning him
It’s Trash Talking Tuesday and today I’m trashing all those who, somehow, believe Browns’ quarterback Baker Mayfield has arrived because he beat the lowly Bengals - again....
Odell Beckham tears ACL, Cowboys defense plays worse than Trump’s re-election strategy, and D.K. Metcalf wins the amazing race
After another week of monitoring COVID results, tracking injury reports, and watching the NFC East make a mockery of football, Week 7 in the NFL is nearly concluded. ...
The NFL rewards men who put their hands on women
That headline is a doozy, isn’t it?...
Antonio Brown (and Tom Brady's enabling) just latest in NFL full of problematic men — time for women to take a stand
There’s a thing men do that drives women crazy. It’s when, upon becoming fathers, they suddenly care about women, often beginning their soapbox sermons against sexism and misogyny with “as the father of a daughter . . .”...
Wilson spouting off on humanity of Antonio Brown is insulting and, yes, even DangerRuss
Further illustrating how the NFL has outlined our utter failure, if not caused it, was professional and self-appointed morality-sensor Russell Wilson clamoring for the Seahawks to sign Antonio Brown. I can’t really add any more to this than DeArbea already did, but Wilson needing to chime in is tr...
Daniel Jones brings us all together with less threatening incompetence than debate
There wasn’t much to choose from on Thursday night, that is if you didn’t opt to stream a show you hadn’t gotten to or finished yet to shut out reality. I hear the new season of Fargo is good. If you were looking for live entertainment, your choices boiled down to which version of two balloon-handed...