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When I'd rather watch 'Schitt's Creek' than ANOTHER no-hitter, you know baseball has a problem

Last night, I was scrolling Twitter as the dulcet tones of Schitt’s Creek provided a backdrop to my evening. In short, I was doing nothing. As the late night baseball game out west between the Seattle Mariners and and the Detroit Tigers wore on, I started seeing familiar tweets in my timeline — we w...

Pitchers are even less afraid these days

We didn’t need Spencer Turnbull’s no-hitter last night to know that pitchers have smothered baseball these days (and that the Mariners have had all their bats replaced with Play-Doh). It’s the fifth no-hitter of the year, and we’re barely a quarter through the season....

Paige Bueckers can't turn pro because WNBA rules won’t let her

There’s literally nothing 19-year-old UConn freshman phenom Paige Bueckers can’t do on a basketball court. Well, except for the fact that she can’t take the floor with a WNBA team for another three years....

Who do we actually think is going to be moved in by the NBA trade deadline?

There are more NBA trade deadline rumors than there are R.A. The Rugged Man syllables on Uncommon Valor. ...

How Trevor Ariza & P.J. Tucker could shape the Eastern Conference Championship race

With the trade deadline now seven days away, there’s a whole lotta shit that still might happen. ...

Coast to coast, which NBA contenders could DeMarcus Cousins help the most?

It’s been over three years since DeMarcus Cousins ruptured his Achilles amid what will likely go down as his final All-Star season. We’re also 18 months removed from his torn ACL that saw him never suit up in 2019-20 despite signing with the Los Angeles Lakers. This season, the 6-foot-10 center had ...

Beating Errol Spence would be Danny Garcia’s career-defining moment

Ray Flores went on to the next question....

Near-death experience behind him, Errol Spence Jr. returns to ring Saturday vs. Danny Garcia

If on Nov. 18, 1994, someone had told you that Roy Jones Jr. would be fighting on Nov. 29, 2020, you would think some ridiculous mistake had been made....

Spencer Dinwiddie Wants To Crowd-Source His Career On GoFundMe

Brooklyn Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie is using the free time of quarantine to brainstorm ideas, and his latest is a doozy....

“The minimum investment in a Dinwiddie token is $150,000, and Dinwiddie is offering a maximum of 90 tokens for purchase.” Kevin Arnovitz of ESPN explains Spencer Dinwiddie’s proposed securitization, and crushes your dreams of investing in Dinwiddie tokens....

Errol Spence Jr. Hit With DWI Charge In High-Speed Dallas Crash

For surviving a crash where he was ejected from the driver’s seat after his Italian sports car flipped multiple times, Errol Spence Jr. received quite a shitty gift from Dallas Police: a driving while intoxicated charge. Police will not be investigating the speed of the car at the time of the crash,...

Errol Spence Jr. Expected To Live After Being Ejected From Rolling Ferrari [Update]

Undefeated welterweight world champion Errol Spence Jr. was seriously injured early this morning in a single-car crash in downtown Dallas. Police say Spence, 29, was driving his Ferrari near I-30 around 3 a.m. when he sped over the center median and flipped his car multiple times. He was ejected fro...

Report: Spencer Dinwiddie Gives Me A Migraine With Complex-Sounding Contract Conversion Plans

Spencer Dinwiddie, a cool basketball man, is planning to sell bonds secured by his contract with the Brooklyn Nets in order to raise up-front investment capital, or anyway that is how I have chosen to make sense of this gobbledygook-ass report from Shams Charania of The Athletic....

D'Angelo Russell And The Brooklyn Nets Are Actually Good Now

Quick: what’s the biggest joke of the decade in the NBA? If you answered, “the New York Knicks,” fine, I’ll give you that. But most people would answer, “that damn Brooklyn Nets-Boston Celtics trade,” and most people would be correct....

Spencer Dinwiddie Is A Refreshing Change Of Pace From The Standard Brandbot Athlete<em></em>

Nets guard Spencer Dinwiddie—who after a patchy early career just inked a three-year, $34 million extension with Brooklyn, and seems to be a generally hilarious dude—has a refreshing worldview on the brands. Mike Vorkunov of The Athletic wrote about the population of NBA players who navigate the le...

Spencer Dinwiddie Channels His Inner Steph Curry, Torches The 76ers

Spencer Dinwiddie is a good basketball man with a good name and a slick, good-looking offensive game. He’s spent all but the first 46 games of his four-plus years in the NBA on miserable, rebuilding Brooklyn teams, which means neither his fun basketball skills nor his delightful personality have got...

Spencer Dinwiddie Inspired To Greatness By "Hoodie Kermit"

Spencer Dinwiddie scored 13 points after about the three-minute mark of the fourth quarter of Brooklyn’s Wednesday night win over the Pistons, including a four-point play, two clutch game-tying threes, and the eventual overtime game-winner. It was a virtuosic finish for a fun and underrated player:...

One Of The World's Worst Soccer Teams Scores One Of Its Best Ever Goals

The history of the Montserrat soccer team is brief and inglorious. The tiny Caribbean nation has only been competing on the international stage since 1991, and in that time they’ve played 36 matches, managed just five wins, scored 33 times, and given up an eye-watering 161 goals to opponents. We are...

Nats Rookie Spits Out Tooth, Socks First Career Dinger [Update]

A strange thing happened in the top of the fifth inning of the first game of today’s Nationals-Phillies doubleheader. Nationals’ rookie catcher Spencer Kieboom spit out a tooth (or possibly a chunk of tooth?) on his way to the plate for his second at-bat of the day....

Oh Hell Yeah, UAB Is Back And The Blazers Are For Real

Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, ...