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Please don't let Keyontae Johnson become the cautionary tale we've too long ignored
The first time I mentioned Joe Hall on this website was in my first week here, which was also the first week of the coronavirus pandemic shutting things down. I’d done some research at the New York Public Library, the day before it closed its doors, looking at microfilm of century-old newspapers to ...
Big Ten screws over Indiana, rewards COVID-y team with not enough wins
Full disclosure: I went to IU. Historically, we are a basketball school, though even that has fallen in shadow after the glory days of the 80s and early 90s. My point is, we are not, and have never been, a football school....
Shortly before Ravens-Cowboys, Dez Bryant tests positive, yet the game goes on
The saga of the COVID outbreak within the Baltimore Ravens organization just won’t quit. Twenty minutes before their Tuesday night game with the Cowboys was set to get started, Ravens receiver and former Cowboy Dez Bryant tweeted that he was pulled from his pre-game warmups because he had tested pos...
In 2020 things, John Harbaugh doesn't know what day it is, but who does?
The entire concept of “days of the week” is just an imaginary construct at this point, with no distinguishable difference from one to the next. John Harbaugh, head coach for the Baltimore Ravens, is all of us. ...
Dabo Swinney sucks even more than you thought yesterday
God save us from the incessant idiocy of college football coaches....
Dumb college kids at Notre Dame rush field in pandemic
Notre Dame-Clemson happened. It was a good game, with the top-ranked Tigers, with Trevor Lawrence sidelined by COVID-19, rallying from 13 points down to take the lead late in the fourth quarter, only for the No. 4 Fighting Irish to drive 91 yards for a score to force overtime, where Notre Dame pulle...
![As U.S. sees worst COVID-19 day yet, NFL stung for second straight day with Texans, Bears and Eagles cases [UPDATED]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/esxlb8ccjtfridvti3j1.jpg)
As U.S. sees worst COVID-19 day yet, NFL stung for second straight day with Texans, Bears and Eagles cases [UPDATED]
For the second straight day, COVID-19 has infiltrated an NFL team facility. Today, it’s the Houston Texans. ...
Missing out on a title must sting, but Price was right to sit out after Turner COVID mess
David Price already got his World Series ring in 2018 with the Red Sox, so it’s not as emotionally wrenching as it could be that, after opting out of this season, the lefthander wasn’t part of the Dodgers’ first championship since 1988....
![Wisconsin could run out of quarterbacks soon [UPDATED]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/e39rxlpowmpuvmxvobc0.jpg)
Wisconsin could run out of quarterbacks soon [UPDATED]
The Big Ten wrapped up Week One. Yay! ...
The NFL keeps following Trump into the abyss — first with Kaepernick then with COVID
We need to take a quick trip back in time to the year 2017. Something important happened then that explains, in part, the limp response of the NFL to the pandemic....
Sports may be back, but the ratings aren’t — a new Marist poll tells us why
This spring, when the NBA shut down after Rudy Gobert tested positive for the coronavirus, other sports followed suit. It was an odd pause in what is essentially our modern calendar. The rhythm of the sports calendar functions like the movement of the stars once did for ancient mariners....
Everything is fine in college football, as Big 10 will no doubt find out this month
Welcome to the shitshow already in progress, Big 10....
Trump bullied the NFL for years and now they're both being bullied by Covid-19
It’s always been about checks and balances....
![Florida’s Dan Mullen wants to risk 90,000 lives because he can’t coach under pressure [UPDATED]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/dchvqsiwcfcqaorzppig.jpg)
Florida’s Dan Mullen wants to risk 90,000 lives because he can’t coach under pressure [UPDATED]
It’s clear Florida head coach Dan Mullen doesn’t care about public health....
Dumb football players are going to ruin football
Athletes hate being called dumb jocks, but sometimes the title fits....
It’s all going wrong and the NFL’s malice could cost lives
The recklessness from the NFL is mind-boggling. ...
Jon Gruden won't keep the damn mask on
Week by week, NFL coaches are learning to wear (or defog) their face shields and have mostly been keeping their masks on. But one head coach remains especially careless when it comes to covering his face....
For the NFL’s smartest team, this seems remarkably dumb
I’ve been staring at this bit of information for at least 10 minutes to see if I could find the logic. Maybe I’m like that guy from “Mallrats” who can’t see the fucking schooner. ...
European soccer isn’t clear of Coronavirus either
It was likely that at some point last spring or over the summer, all the North American sports that were so desperate to return looked at European’s soccer reemergence in May and June, and figured if they could do it, we should too. Of course, everyone on this side of the Atlantic ignored the ways i...