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These skiers, snowboarders, curlers, and skaters will have you chanting ‘U-S-A!’Yes! The Winter Olympics are here, and I’m not going to be sitting at a copy desk in a Colorado ski town awaiting results from halfway around the world this time. I don’t know what to be happier about: My work inbox being free of Olympic coverage plans, or my knowledge of skiers, snowboarders, cross...

Big tennis doesn’t want players to be polite to each otherEverybody loves rivalries, trash-talking, and lighthearted ribbing in sports. Nobody wants to see it go too far, but competition and mutual respect that lead to heated confrontations on the field are pure entertainment. Big egos and confidence are a big factor in several athletes’ mindsets, and that...

Deadspin fixes: The OlympicsAfter the semifinals of the men’s 110-meter hurdles in Tokyo, eventual silver medalist Grant Holloway talked in an NBC interview about the challenge of sitting around the Olympic Village, waiting for what seemed like an eternity for his chance to take his spot on the grandest stage in athletics....

Test your Olympics knowledge with this increasingly difficult quiz!

The Olympics are here, and for the next couple of weeks, we’re all going to be obsessed with the Summer Games. But then what? What will we actually remember? Well, let’s find out. As the Tokyo Games get underway, here’s a little quiz to find out what you remember about the last Olympics, way back in...

Deadspin’s 2021 NFL Draft gambling guide

Remember this time a year ago when all we had to wager on was the NFL Draft?...

This Table-Tennis Trick Shot Bends Minds And Makes Opponents Look Silly

Adam Bobrow, a commentator for the International Table Tennis Federation, loves snakes. Here are some of his favorite snakes. They tend to startle people:...

Table Tennis Guy Pulls Off The Last-Ditch Block Of A Lifetime

Here we have 15-year-old Chris Chen hitting the deck after getting felled by a drop shot, raising his paddle in desperation, and producing the table tennis highlight of 2018. Or, as his Trondheim Table Tennis Club called it, a “Fantastisk blokkering.” Truly!...

Markelle Fultz Is A Deranged Weirdo Who Doesn't Know How To Use His Limbs

Philadelphia 76ers basketball forgetter Markelle Fultz fouled out in 19 minutes of dreadful action this morning in an exhibition game in Shenzhen, China, against a skeleton-crew Dallas Mavericks team without DeAndre Jordan, Harrison Barnes, and Dirk Nowitzki. He looked real bad! But somehow not near...