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Player Rankings In ESPN And <i>SI</i>'s 2017-18 NBA Player Rankings, Ranked
1. 90 - Patrick Beverley, Clippers (SI)2. 14 - Rudy Gobert, Jazz (ESPN)T-3. 26 - Kevin Love, Cavaliers (SI); 26 - Kevin Love (ESPN)5. 75 - Dennis Smith, Jr., Mavericks (ESPN)T-6. 16-22 - Gordon Hayward, Celtics; Damian Lillard, Blazers; Mike Conley, Grizzlies; Kyle Lowry, Raptors; Klay Thompson, War...

High School Football Brawl Broken Up By Cops With Pepper Spray
A brawl broke out at the end of Basic High School’s homecoming game Friday night, after the Wolves lost to the Canyon Springs Pioneers. These teams apparently do not like each other very much—the Las Vegas Review-Journal says there were 35 penalties and four ejections over the course of the game—but...
![Here's What ESPN Employees Are Saying About The Jemele Hill Situation On Their Private Message Board [Update]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/gdpxxmrjy44miikbobpb.png)
Here's What ESPN Employees Are Saying About The Jemele Hill Situation On Their Private Message Board [Update]
ESPN spent this week caving to the most cynically motivated people on the fringes of sports media and their manufactured outrage at SportsCenter anchor Jemele Hill’s accurate comments about the president. Thus the network finds itself in the midst of a culture war that’s activated every reactionary ...
![Report: ESPN Tried To Sub Out Jemele Hill For Last Night's <i>SportsCenter </i>[Update]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/dz26mlfaqsohtvwqtylb.jpg)
Report: ESPN Tried To Sub Out Jemele Hill For Last Night's <i>SportsCenter </i>[Update]
Though ESPN anchor Jemele Hill received a lot of shit for her correct diagnosis of Donald Trump, she appeared on Wednesday’s SportsCenter with Michael Smith as usual. Later in the night, she and the network issued statements to give the notion that they were on good terms. But a new report suggests ...

SB Nation To Team Site Managers: You Do This For Love, Now Hit Your Quotas
Earlier this week Deadspin published a story about how SB Nation team sites’ traffic accounts for the vast majority of the network’s total traffic, even though the people who staff these sites are primarily paid low monthly stipends or nothing at all. The story detailed, among other things, how a Vo...

Craig Carton Resigns From WFAN After Arrest For Securities Fraud
WFAN radio host Craig Carton resigned today, exactly one week after news broke of his arrest for securities and wire fraud....

Banned Golf Phenom Returns To Links, Keeps Winning
After a bizarre, court-ordered ban from golf, a preteen golf prodigy in suburban Washington, D.C., has returned to the sport, and has picked up right where she left off....

Q&A: Dean Blandino On Confusing NFL Rules, The Dez Bryant Catch, And The Cowboys' Party Bus
In April, NFL vice president of officiating Dean Blandino surprised a lot of league people by leaving to take a job with Fox Sports. Blandino’s role with the NFL was to eat shit whenever an official or an officiating crew screwed up. Now, he gets to serve as an in-game rules analyst alongside Mike P...

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Show Us Your Fantasy Football Team
The NFL season kicks off tonight, and with the return of real football comes the start of the fantasy football season. So show us what you’re working with....

FS1 Won't Be Airing Jason Whitlock's Latest Colin Kaepernick Skit
On Tuesday, All Takes Matter co-host Jason Whitlock started an internet firestorm with this tweet:...

Craig Carton Allegedly Arranged Ticket Scam To Pay Huge Casino Debts
WFAN radio host Craig Carton, of Boomer & Carton Show fame, owed an outstanding debt of $2.5 million to a casino in 2016, according to the Security and Exchanges Commission’s fraud lawsuit against Carton, businessman Joseph Meli, and the pair’s companies....

Report: Radio Host Craig Carton Arrested In Alleged $2M Fake Ticket Scam
Radio personality Craig Carton, who co-hosts the Boomer & Carton show on WFAN and CBS Sports Network, has been arrested as part of an alleged fake ticket scam that netted $2 million, NBC 4 New York reports....

ESPN Radio Host Ryen Russillo Returns To Work, Talks About His Arrest And Suspension
Ryen Russillo, host of The Russillo Show on ESPN, returned to his program today for the first time since he was arrested on Aug. 23 in Wyoming after he allegedly entered someone else’s condo in the early hours, refused to leave, and ended up with no pants. ...

This Spikeball Rally Is A Work Of Art
It’s still summer, at least for a few precious weeks more, which means it’s still the perfect time to go play spikeball in a park near you. For those uninitiated with the game, it involves spiking a ball on a mini-trampoline and also some other stuff, but you do not have to know anything about spike...

Report: Floyd Mayweather Jr. Tried To Bet $400,000 In Cash On Himself
Floyd Mayweather went into the M Casino sportsbook Saturday afternoon and tried to plunk down $400,000 in cash on at least one bet on himself, according to this ESPN report....

Flying Frisbee Dog Is The Sports Highlight Of The Day
This dog may not have caught the frisbee, but he achieved flight....
![ESPN Radio Host Ryen Russillo Arrested In Wyoming For Misdemeanor Criminal Entry [Updates]](https://images.deadspin.com/tr:w-900/xmq1vrfkllc8hvxjzxsb.jpg)
ESPN Radio Host Ryen Russillo Arrested In Wyoming For Misdemeanor Criminal Entry [Updates]
Ryen Russillo, host of The Russillo Show on ESPN, was arrested in Wyoming today. The details on the Teton County Sheriff’s Office inmate list are scarce, but the 42-year-old Russillo was charged with criminal entry....

Cleveland Radio Caller Uses His Moment On <i>SportsCenter</i> To Talk About Host’s Dildo
SportsCenter put Cleveland radio host Aaron Goldhammer on the air tonight after the Kyrie Irving trade, and he suggested they take some calls in a simulcast. Sounded fun! ...

Report: Chris Christie Gives Up Dream Of Being A Terrible Sports Radio Host For Now
Anyone who had hoped to one day call Chris Christie on the radio and tell him he’s a corrupt piece of shit will be sorely disappointed to learn that they’ll have to settle for tweeting at him, as the outgoing governor of New Jersey will not pursue an on-air gig at WFAN. ...