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Why Your Team Sucks 2013: Houston Texans
Some people are fans of the Houston Texans. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Houston Texans. This 2013 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the 2013 NFL previews so far right here....

Why Your Team Sucks 2013: Tennessee Titans
Some people are fans of the Tennessee Titans. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Tennessee Titans. This 2013 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the 2013 NFL previews so far right here....

Why Your Team Sucks 2013: Jacksonville Jaguars
Some people are fans of the Jacksonville Jaguars. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Jacksonville Jaguars. This 2013 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group....

Lance Armstrong: The USPS Team Should Have Known I Was Doping
Lance Armstrong is facing a lawsuit claiming he defrauded team sponsor US Postal Service out of millions of dollars. Armstrong's lawyers have fired back, claiming the government shouldn't collect because it should have seen all those media reports about Armstrong doping....

The Charlotte Hornets Are Coming Back
Today's the day: after a decade of existence as the Bobcats, the franchise will officially receive league approval to change its name, and bring the Charlotte Hornets back to the NBA in 2014....

Which Detroit Tiger Got His Bare Ass And Penis Caught On Camera?
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Redskins' Indian-Chief Defender: Not A Chief, Probably Not Indian
Lately, the Washington Redskins are having a harder time defending the team's name than the rest of the NFC East had defending the read-option last season. One of the more entertaining parts of Redskins owner Dan Snyder's effort has been his ongoing Indians-love-"Redskins" campaign, whereby the team...

Smells Like Teen Spirit
This here's a good one, Donna Tartt's 1993 Harper's story: "Basketball Season, or Team Spirit: Memories of Being a Freshman Cheerleader for the Basketball Team":...

Roy Hibbert Can Never Play For Team USA, And It's All Jamaica's Fault
The United States Olympic basketball team, finding itself short on centers, wanted to add Indiana Pacers big man Roy Hibbert to its roster before the 2012 summer games. There was just one problem: Hibbert belonged to the Jamaican national team. On this week's excerpt from Slate's Hang Up and Listen ...

Photos: The North Korean Hockey Team
You can click over here to read an account of a week spent with the North Korean national ice hockey team at the IIHF Division III Championships. These photos were just some of the many taken during the weeklong tournament in Cape Town, South Africa, and present a snapshot of the rare North Koreans ...

My Week With The North Korean Hockey Team
CAPE TOWN, South Africa—This is what a North Korean postgame press conference sounds like:...

Read Roger Goodell's Letter To Congress Defending The Redskins Name
Last month, 10 members of Congress publicly called on Roger Goodell to change the name of the Redskins. Now, Goodell responds, in a letter calling the nickname "a unifying force that stands for strength, courage, pride and respect." ...

100 Years Of History
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Which Oakland Player's Bare Ass Was Caught On Camera Last Night?
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Get Lost, Norman
From Bob Klapisch and John Harper's entertaining book about covering the Mets in the early '90s, The Worst Team Money Could Buy:...

Hawaii Puts The Rainbow Back In Warriors
Hawaii has abandoned a plan to neuter one of the best nicknames in college sports. For the first time in 13 years, Hawaii football—and the rest of the university's men's teams—will be the Rainbow Warriors....

D'Fellas
Here's a winning story about Lawrence Taylor and his boys by one of our finest writers—John Ed Bradley. It originally appeared in Esquire back in 1985....

Deadspin I-Team: Who Is The Shrieking Spurs Fan?
Last night's Warriors-Spurs double-OT thriller was exciting, but many fans at home struggled to fully integrate themselves into the game experience thanks to a shrill Spurs fan whose voice came through loud and clear on TNT's broadcast....

An Abu Dhabi Sheik Is About To Buy A New York MLS Expansion Team
Back in August, we heard noise from a deep-money source that a United Arab Emirates sheik was prepared to pay a ton of money for a New York-based MLS team. The owner was reportedly lobbying for "crazy benefits and tax breaks."...
