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Sunday Night Reminded Us That Jerry Krause Destroyed The Jordan Era Chicago Bulls
Nothing lasts forever, but it doesn’t mean that you have to voluntarily screw it up....

With WWE Layoffs, Vince McMahon Retains Title As World's Largest Douche
It’s hard to stand out as a shithead billionaire in these times. Whether you’re laying off employees you could easily afford to pay, or you’re influencing the government to turn a deadly crisis into a profitable opportunity, or you’re valuing the economy (i.e. your own bank account) over people’s li...

The XFL Was Mostly Irrelevant, But Don't Celebrate Its Failure
For many football fans, the resurgence of the XFL was simply a way to get their weekend fix of America’s “new pastime.” ...

Lynching Jokes Don't Fly In Mississippi And Mike Leach Doesn't Deserve The Benefit Of The Doubt
Mike Leach isn’t gonna make it....

The World Really Is Coming To An End: Adam Schefter Criticized The NFL
ESPN’s Adam Schefter is widely known as an NFL shill. He rarely, if ever, criticizes the league and has even fed from the same trough as the entity he supposedly covers objectively....

Maybe Star Pitchers Having Elective Tommy John Surgery Isn't The Best Thing To Do During A Pandemic
On one hand, if ever there was a time for pitchers to undergo Tommy John surgery, this is it. Because the abbreviation of this season due to the coronavirus pandemic means there is less baseball to be missed while recovering from the operation, which typically takes about 15 months....
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Bill Belichick Has Been Boring The World For Years, Cam Newton's Arrival Could Change All That [Updated]
Cam Newton is unapologetically different....

If You Watch Only One Sports Documentary During Quarantine, Make It This One
If I told you that the FBI started an undercover investigation to expose the people who secretly pay college basketball recruits, only to find out that their own employees were stealing the agency’s money, would you believe me?...

The Level Of Disrespect For Black QBs This Week Is Sickening
Did you hear Tom Brady is leaving the Patriots for the Buccaneers? This is something that should never have happened just based on Brady’s line of credit. All the Brady talk may have drowned out a larger troubling pattern this week – the consistent disrespect of black quarterbacks by the NFL and med...

Tom Brady Is The Most Overrated QB In History. New England Should Be Glad He Is Gone
Tom Brady is no longer a member of the Patriots, and nobody should be happier about that than Patriots fans, who are finally free from having to watch one of the most overrated quarterbacks ever as his long fade into irrelevance begins....

I Don't Care What All The Haters Are Going To Say: Tom Brady Is God And I'm In Mourning
I’m staring at a bottle of tequila....

The World Might Be Coming To An End, But Here Are The Places You Can Still Bet On Sports
You might have noticed that there is a lot going on in the world. Even though everything has been cancelled....

Dumbass Doping Defense To Drugs Trafficking Charge Gets Dutch Sprinter Stiff Prison Sentence
How dumbass are you if you are an Olympic athlete and your defense to narcotics trafficking charges is that you thought you were transporting performance-enhancing drugs?...

Springboks Kill Lions
It sucks when you have beaten in a tournament the team most people think is the best in the world, but you still don’t go home with the trophy. ...

Uluru Climbers Thwarted by Strong Winds and Changing Rules
Climbers can no longer scale Uluru, the monolithic rock in central Australia once known as Ayers Rock, that is scared to the Anangu people....

The Cricket Kings Of Queens, A Documentary
“The Cricket Kings of Queens” is a documentary that follows three immigrant cricketers from John Adams High School in Queens, NY, whose team attempts an undefeated season in the wake of Trump’s election. On the pitch, they have the chance to escape a world that is increasingly intolerant of immigran...

A Collection of Stuffed Animals, Hollow Shells Of Once Vibrant Beings
Please enjoy these people walking amongst one man’s macabre collection of taxidermy animals. More than 200 animal heads line his walls, artifacts of lives lived....

Can I Fuck To My Friend's Band?
Time for your weekly edition of the Deadspin Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. Today, we’re talking about mercy rules, Jason Statham, baseball, cereal, bad roommates, and more....

It's Absolutely Fine That Donald Trump Got Booed At The World Series
Every now and then, Boris Johnson stumbles stammering down a street in England looking like a toilet brush that has somehow been granted admission to a fancy private school. Cameras are trained on him because he’s the prime minister of the United Kingdom, but they were on him before. He has been, ...

Three Good Dogs I Met
I spent the last three months living in Mexico City. While I was there, I met three good dogs....