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New Yorkers! Tonight’s Varsity Letters reading series, presented by Gelf Magazine, boasts a trio of sports business reporters. Albert Chen of Sports Illustrated, Matthew Futterman of The New York Times, and Ben Reiter of Sports Illustrated will all be reading. You should go! More information is avai...

The Great Wonder Of The NFL Is Ben Roethlisberger's Dreadfully Large Head

The Steelers got their asses kicked in by the Patriots last night, and you only need to take one look at Ben Roethlisberger’s big dumb head to understand just how poorly the game went for his team....

Red Sox Fire Team President Dave Dombrowski Nearly A Year After Winning World Series

Not even a full year after the Boston Red Sox won the World Series, they’ve fired president Dave Dombrowski, per ESPN’s Jeff Passan. Dombrowski had been with the team since August of 2015....

Deadspin Up All Night: Face The Fool

Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin. That was a lot of football. It’s over now, right?...

WNBA Referee Walks Into Astou Ndour’s Hand, Delivers Emphatic Ejection

You can’t touch a referee. That’s the rule in basketball and basically every sport. So, the ejection of the Chicago Sky’s Astou Ndour from today’s game against the Washington Mystics was understandable. But the reaction of WNBA ref Kevin Fahey was a bit over the top....

CBS Shows Ads Over The Void After Power Outage Disrupts Chiefs-Jaguars Broadcast

Coming back from a commercial after the Jaguars cut the Chiefs’ lead to 37-19, CBS didn’t return to the game broadcast. In a nihilistic twist, the network kept showing ads over nothing....

The Steelers Specifically Didn't Want This To Happen, Which Makes It All The Funnier

Back in March, before the Antonio Brown saga involved feet and a helmet, it was a relatively standard dispute of a disgruntled player riding an elliptical and demanding a trade from his team. The Steelers had no desire to keep him, but they still thought highly enough of him that they didn’t want a ...

Deadspin Up All Night: You Know You Got It

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19-Year-Old Bianca Andreescu Wins The U.S. Open, Fearlessly

If Bianca Andreescu was at all humbled or overwhelmed by the circumstances before her in Saturday afternoon’s U.S. Open final, she had a funny way of showing it....

Khabib Nurmagomedov Remains Terrifyingly Good, Submits Dustin Poirier To Unify Lightweight Championship

Eleven months after his prior title defense against Conor McGregor—and the post-match brawl that led to a lengthy suspension—Khabib Nurmagomedov reasserted himself as one of, if not the best fighter in the world. Against the interim UFC lightweight champ Dustin Poirier, Khabib dominated all 12 minut...

Cincinnati Safety Kyriq McDonald Collapses And Convulses On Field [Updates]

In the second quarter of Cincinnati’s game against Ohio State, Bearcats safety Kyriq McDonald collapsed on the field and appeared to shake uncontrollably, forcing him to be carted off the field. McDonald was conscious and got up on his feet before exiting the game, but video of the play (which ABC d...

Deadspin Up All Night: Panther Quick And Leather Tough

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Of Course Tyreek Hill Got A Contract Extension

When news broke that the Kansas City Chiefs signed wide receiver Tyreek Hill to a contract extension earlier today, NFL reporters confirmed what everyone following the sport should have suspected for some time. The team did what professional sports teams do with such news, issuing a press release pa...

Bigoted Wrestling Fans Are Getting Loud And Promotions Need To Set Boundaries

All Elite Wrestling’s All Out, the promotion’s fourth event and the last before their weekly TV show launches on TNT on October 2, ran on Saturday night in the Chicago suburb of Hoffman Estates. One of the key storytelling aspects of the show was setting up the match to determine the first AEW Women...

A Modest Proposal For Improving The U.S. Open Fan Experience

For as long as there have been ticketed events, people have tried to inch their way to better seats, and the people tasked with maintaining order at these events have tried to stop them. It happens at every sporting event, all the time, and the scene usually plays out like this: Person sits down in ...

Here Are 13 Seconds Of Baseball That Were More Exciting Than The Entirety Of <i>Thursday Night Football</i>

Thursday night’s regular-season opener between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears was a real dog. Fancy camera angles and old-timey costumes could not lift the sloppy, disjointed mess on the field. It would be generous to describe it as a defensive battle, but defense had little or nothing ...

Why Is The NFL Giving Money To A Group That Believes Trump Needs To Save Chicago From Gang Violence?

One of the first major moves that the NFL and Roc Nation’s “Inspire Change” program will make is donate $400,000 to two Chicago groups that position themselves as local service organizations aimed at helping keep children in low-income neighborhoods off the streets, according to TMZ. The recipients ...

Deadspin Up All Night: Sicker Than The Rest

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Michigan State Agrees To Pay $4.5 Million Fine For Failing To Stop Larry Nassar

Michigan State has agreed to pay a $4.5 million fine for its failure to protect students from Larry Nassar, a former school employee and former doctor to the USA Gymnastics national team, who is now serving more than 100 years in prison for sexually abusing young girls under the guise of medical tre...

Antonio Brown And The Raiders Have Conspired To Ruin Every Goddamn Thing

Let us start with a hearty LOL. The Oakland Raiders traded for downfield savant Antonio Brown during the offseason, handed him $30-plus million in guaranteed money, and now stand ready to piss that investment away in the quickest, most Raiders-like fashion possible. Adam Schefter is now reporting th...