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No, $262.5M doesn’t mean more pressure on Justin Herbert

Like Jaylen Brown of the Boston Celtics on Tuesday, Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert became the highest-paid player in his league, inking a five-year $262.5 million extension with the team. The initial takeaway is largely the same even if the metrics by which they’re measured are diff...

Arthur Smith’s Falcons are riding the Bijan Robinson train in an age of aviator offenses

Arthur Smith migrated to the Falcons after laying down the railroad tracks for the Tennessee Titans’ 2020 AFC Championship berth. One would hope he isn’t trying to put his spin on the Derrick Henry cloud of dust offense he conducted for two years, but with Bijan Robinson. An essential part of buildi...

Baker Mayfield propaganda is back in full effect for 2023

We haven’t heard much from Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Baker Mayfield this summer. After signing a one-year deal with the Bucs in March, it’s been relatively quiet on the home front for Mayfield, which is unusual. His name hasn’t been mentioned much this offseason outside of Tampa. Now that tra...

These NFL teams haven't been on HBO’s <i>Hard Knocks</i>

Football season is near, which means HBO is gearing up to give us another season of all-access on Hard Knocks that won’t feature anything worth seeing....

At least one NFL scout has a valid opinion of Aaron Rodgers

Once professional athletes reach a certain level in their respective sport, no matter how long they’ve played and how obvious their decline becomes, it’s rare that anyone will go out on a limb and proclaim this to the masses. The more polarizing you become in your fame, the less people are willing t...

The NFL’s leading rusher seems like an afterthought during the offseason

Running backs have been devalued for some time in the NFL. Top RB paydays pale compared to quarterbacks and wide receivers around the league. NFL offenses once coveted backs who could carry the rock 20-plus times each game and were willing to pay them accordingly. Now all that’s out there for the le...

Deebo Samuel chucks up deuces on national radio host Zach Gelb

Some days you wake up, and you’re just not in the mood for anybody’s shenanigans, no matter how innocent they might be. San Francisco 49ers All-Pro wide receiver Deebo Samuel  must’ve been in one of these moods when he appeared on “The Zach Gelb Show” on CBS Sports Radio. During the interview, which...

Saquon Barkley’s only option is to threaten to end the Giants’ season before it starts

A big second contract for an NFL running back is a rarity. Derrick Henry shared carries during his first three seasons as a pro, following his nearly 400-carry junior season at Alabama. In Year 4 he became the best running back in the NFL and received a new 4-year contract in 2020. Saqon Barkley has...

NFL causes social media stir by posting entire Falcons Super Bowl collapse on Twitter

The NFL knows that football fans are starting to itch. No games have been played since the week of Valentine’s Day. Scott Hanson is sending out his weekly summer countdown of how many Sundays remain until the RedZone returns to our lives — nine weeks. Still, that first Sunday is after Labor Day. Wit...

'Jalen Hurts and the Philadelphia Eagles are going back to the Super Bowl' says Terry Crews

How deep will the Jerry Jones docuseries actually go?

No matter how irrelevant the Dallas Cowboys are on the field, football fans, networks, and social media conversations frequently revolve around the organization. The off-field drama surrounding the Cowboys often captures headlines even more than on the field. And most of the time, those narratives r...

The 15 Most Valuable Professional Sports Franchises

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IDIOT OF THE MONTH: People doing stupid things

Welcome to Deadspin’s IDIOT OF THE MONTH! Free will is an illusion and nothing matters....

Joey Chestnut’s dominance over the Nathan’s Hot Dog Eating Contest isn’t as staggering as you think

Is there a surer bet in sports than Joey Chestnut inhaling wieners, sliding those all-beef dogs down his throat faster than anyone else on America’s Independence Day? Well, I guess that it happens on Coney Island on the southern coast of Brooklyn, or than Nathan’s will supply the buns, weins, severa...

James Harden is chasing an ideal that doesn’t exist

It’s fair to ask the question, what does James Harden want? Is it a ring? Is it a lifestyle? Is it his own team? The 33-year-old former one-man wrecking crew is no longer an indestructible pinball, bouncing off of everything, and amassing high score after high score. No team is going to hand him the...

Isaiah Rodgers said bets placed on Colts were for others, not him [Updated]

Updated Feb. 1, 2024: Isaiah Rodgers said that the bets placed on the Indianapolis Colts were placed using his account — but were made for others and not himself....

Trent Dilfer is daring coaches to poach his players at UAB — someone should

Laying the groundwork is important. Sometimes that includes letting people know you’re not to be played with....

The Reggie Evans Bad Basketball Basketball Hall of Fame 2023 inductees

Studies have shown that negative news garners more of the public’s attention than positive news, so with that knowledge, I propose an alternative to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. The Basketball Hall of Fame has the prestige, but it doesn’t generate as much conversation as Twitter ramblings f...

NBA contenders might have to start holding onto those first- and second-round picks

The Golden State Warriors have been the model franchise for how to keep a core group together. Steph Curry, Klay Thompson, and Draymond Green were able to stay united for a decade for a few different reasons — salary cap increase, luck, well-timed contracts — but No. 1 on that list is they spent mon...

Mike McCarthy is exactly who we’ve always known he was

When it comes to athletic competition, we all love a good ranking. It doesn’t matter what it is, whom we’re comparing, or what’s at stake. It always catches our attention whenever a list is released, ranking players, or teams 1 through whatever. You can triple the attention any ranking list will rec...