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Doc Rivers refuses to own up to his mistakes
Accountability is a word we hear often in sports. Whether someone owns up to their mistakes or passes the buck, accountability is the word we hear thrown about in the wake of whatever action was taken. Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers has been at the center of an accountability conversation sin...
5 workarounds if your alma mater opts out of College Football 25
There’s a lot of nerves surrounding the release of College Football 25. What’s it going to play like? Is it just going to be Madden but with NCAA schools? In that case, kill me now. But also, what’s Dynasty mode going to feature? Will there be a transfer portal? NIL contracts? Will realignment be an...
The next QB to reset the market is *checks notes* Dak Prescott?
The NFL has officially reached the point where it is about to jump the shark on quarterback contracts setting — and re-setting — the market....
Here are the possible landing spots for Bears QB Justin Fields
Justin Fields’ days as a Chicago Bear might be coming to an end. With rumors circulating about if the team will draft a new QB — undoubtedly former Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams — with that No. 1 pick, keep Fields, or trade him, here are six teams who have either emerged as front runners for ...
Billionaire octogenarian apparently not embarrased to ask for $1B in taxpayer money
Another day, another billionaire casually asking the taxpayers of his city for a billion dollars so he can get even more money than he already has. ...
3-time Super Bowl champ crashed into 5 parked cars, fled: police
Former NFL defensive back and three-time Super Bowl champion Tim McKyer was arrested in Florida for a hit-and-run. ...
Vince McMahon allegations hurt Randy Orton's 'f—king heart'
WWE wrestler Randy Orton is reportedly “torn” on Vince McMahon and has “no idea what to think” after the WWE founder was sued for sexual assault and sex trafficking. ...
NCAA President Charlie Baker said the quiet part out loud about transferring
There’s a difference between how things are supposed to work, and how they actually work. And very rarely do the ones in charge publicly address the things that are silently understood, but never spoken about. It’s why what Charlie Baker said this week was so out of the norm....
NBA coaches should be forced to participate in All-Star festivities, too
The NBA wanting a buy-in from its stars is an understandable expectation. However, coaches are rarely a part of the All-Star festivities aside from the Eastern and Western Conference coaches. Everyone except for gym rat Tom Thibodeau is on vacation unwinding from the daily rigors of an 82-game grind...
Is Bill Belichick’s gap year a post-dated suspension for Spygate?
The New England Patriots dynasty ended when Tom Brady left for Tampa Bay, but now it’s officially over as the Pats’ run is getting The Last Dance treatment. Yes, only a season past Bill Belichick’s departure, Apple+ has a nine-parter called The Dynasty coming out whenever. What they won’t tell you i...
Elly De La Cruz's foul ball accidentally smashes car window of pitcher throwing to him
Hunter Greene may have to pay for the damages to the rear driver’s side window of his Maybach SUV — not the guy who caused it....
Man admits to firing first shots at Chiefs' Super Bowl parade: police
According to Kansas City police officers, Lyndell Mays — one of the adult males charged with murder after last week’s shooting that killed one and injured 22 during the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade — admitted he fired the first shots. ...
In this age of unprecendent access, we should take inside info with a grain of salt
We are in the age of the easiest, most direct access we’ve ever seen. That goes triple for sports which can be a good thing. But we’ve gotten to the point where we have so much access that it’s begun to have the opposite effect and become negative in many situations. With all the information thrown ...
5 increasingly unhinged solutions to the NBA All-Star Game
As the NBA has observed its golden era of efficiency proliferate from more streamlined offenses to load management run amok, elements of the league have fallen by the wayside. Marquee hoopers play fewer minutes, fewer games and now they barely expend energy or cross halfcourt during All-Star Weekend...
The NBA All-Star Game has never been better!
Welcome to Deadspin’s The Sports Nihilist, where all is for naught, and we are but accidental jolts of electrified meat stuck to the surface of a rock in an indifferent universe....
Adam Silver is finally realizing that G League Ignite was always doomed to fail
You miss 100 percent of the shots you don’t take. But the only way to improve your jump shot is through shot correction. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver is realizing that a shot his league took a few years ago — that many thought looked good when it came off their hands — was always going to be an airb...
Michael Bisping makes another homophobic remark on a hot mic
Michael Bisping was caught uttering a homophobic remark on a hot mic during the UFC 298 broadcast on Saturday. ...
The top 10 winningest coaches in NCAA basketball history
UConn head coach Geno Auriemma passed Mike Krzyzewski for second place on the all-time wins list. While he surpassed the former Duke coach, Auriemma still trails Stanford’s Tara VanDerveer. In addition to those three legendary coaches, here are the all-time NCAA Division I basketball coaching leader...
Mike Tannebaum's Jets prediction makes you wonder how he ever became a GM in the first place
A Get Up segment by former NFL general manager Mike Tannenbaum just created a hypothetical NFL locker room so chaotic it hurts to think about. ...
Washington Nationals no longer up for sale
Washington Nationals principal owner Mark Lerner said on Monday that the team is no longer for sale. ...