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What the NFL's postseason expansion talks suggest

The NFL jumped into the flying-by-their-ass pool Monday by reportedly discussing expanding this year’s playoffs to 16 teams. This coming after they expanded it to 14 already, and they may just jump over that this January without ever trying it....

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For millions of Americans, the pandemic has changed when and where you cast your ballot....

Lamar Jackson still can't pass big test, while Steelers are incapable of failing even one

While much of the nation was stuck watching Colts-Lions (and got to see Nyheim Hines’ roundoff backflip with a full twist, twice!) the marquee matchup of the day yesterday was between the Steelers and the Ravens....

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In 2016, seven NFL owners donated $1 million each to Donald Trump’s inauguration committee, proving without a doubt that owners don’t feel the least bit inhibited when it comes to political speech. No, the neutrality directive has always been leveled at players, whose pockets may not be so deep yet ...

The Chargers have become artists

Nyheim Hines’ badass spin move for TD isn’t even the most impressive part [UPDATED]

Update - HE DID IT AGAIN:...

Sue Bird & Megan Rapinoe's engagement is just what we needed

This has been a long, exhausting, Zamboni fire of a year. And a month, for that matter. And a week....

Deadspin Presents: Top 10 presidential endorsements from sports stars, Part I: Trumpsters

There’s politics in everything, and sports is no different, so it’s not surprising that many figures in the sports world have decided to use their platform as public figures to make their feelings known about the upcoming presidential election....

For A.J. Hinch, looks like crime does pay as Tigers' gig looms

While White Sox fans, and the actual White Sox for a good portion of the time, have always considered the Cubs their main rival, the way baseball works is that your real enemy resides in the division. That’s who you compete with for playoff spots after all. So while the Sox were having their owner e...

Trevor Lawrence tests positive for COVID-19 as this all continues to go terribly

The biggest man on campus has COVID-19....

White Sox fill manager slot by exhuming corpse of Tony La Russa

It is impossible to accurately describe how confounding the White Sox hiring of Tony La Russa as manager is. That adjective is not even close to properly illustrating the shock, confusion, and anger of just about anyone around the club today. It’s like staring at a car crash, but both vehicles were ...

Dan Mullen makes sense for first time all year with call for national voting holiday

Florida Head Coach Dan Mullen is a perplexing individual....

MLB billionaires have waited years to screw working-class staff at altar of profit, & here it is

It’s no accident that before the World Series came to its conclusion, MLB was getting it out there just how much of a financial disaster this season was for the owners. You’ve got to lay the groundwork, and MLB wants all its fans to know why its owners will be non-tendering some pretty big names to ...

NWSL dramatically expands TV audience as women’s sports leagues see viewership growth

When we talk about “sports ratings” being down, let’s start adding a “men’s” before the phrase....

Baseball’s winter of cost-savings discontent begins as cheapskate Cards cut Wong

It used to be the hot stove, and fans used to get excited about it right after the last out of the World Series. A ray of hope, provided by the wishful thinking that it could be your team ending the season on a podium with Rob Manfred as he gets booed next year. But in a preview of what’s to come ar...

Rob Manfred does what he does best: Pass off responsibility

Nobody’s right if everybody’s wrongIt’s an oldie, but still true. Perhaps it’s unfair to the Dodgers that perhaps the enduring image of their World Series win will be Justin Turner returning to the field to celebrate after testing positive for COVID-19. Maybe that’s what Turner and the Dodgers deser...

Daryl Morey got a new job, but he still hasn’t addressed his Hong Kong tweet

Daryl Morey is Teflon....

Donald Trump and Justin Turner chose to be COVID-19 Superspreaders

Seven days before the 2020 Presidential Election ends, and on the night that the 2020 World Series Champions were crowned, two selfish and privileged white men that had, and have, tested positive for the coronavirus, decided that Tuesday night was the perfect time to expose people to a deadly virus....

WTF Justin Turner

If you turned off the TV, put down your phone, and went to bed after the Dodgers won their first title since 1988, you missed the drama that will forever mark this weird, neutral-site World Series, at the end of this weird, pandemic-altered baseball season, in this weird, hellish year....

Horrible turtle man Mitch McConnell has never done a damn thing worth being ‘proud of’

After getting Amy Coney Barrett confirmed to the Supreme Court on Monday, Mitch McConnell went to the Senate floor to spike the political football that he’d gotten over the goal line, locking in a 6-3 conservative majority on the highest court in the land....