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The New <i>Game Of Thrones</i> Trailer Hints At One Very Cool Storyline
HBO released a new Game Of Thrones trailer for Season 7, and fans around the world are asking themselves one question: “Where is the incest?”...

<i>Fargo</i> Remains The Best, Most Inexplicable Show On TV
The three seasons of Fargo do not share any of the same characters, timelines, or even locales. The show’s anthology drama allows it to pull in talent like Ted Danson and Billy Bob Thornton for a single season, and what it lacks in the sort of continuity that sustains any long-running TV show, it ma...

What Are Your Favorite News Bloopers?
Today, we posted an old news blooper in which a story about former NFL player Kevin Everett accidentally had the wrong (but perfect) accompanying footage. Since then, the Deadspin staff has been remembering news gaffes and fuckups....

The Weirdest Part Of Jalen Rose’s Sitcom Was The Fictional ESPN
You may have already seen the best part of the pilot episode of the sitcom Jalen vs. Everybody. The clip, which surfaced earlier this week, featured a fictional meeting between Jalen Rose and Kobe Bryant....

Study: The Median Age Of TV Wrestling Viewers Has Nearly Doubled Since 2000
Pro wrestling isn’t kids’ stuff. In fact, it’s viewed on television by an audience that’s much older than you might think....

ESPN Wants Everyone To Know They're Not Actually Liberal And They've Got Math To Prove It
Amid absurd claims that ESPN’s so-called liberal bias has caused a drop in viewership in recent months—an opportunistic and disingenuous reading of the network’s financial troubles, which were primarily provoked by the Worldwide Leader’s failure to adapt quickly enough to technological innovations ...

IMPORTANT: I Would Not Bone A Vampire
Recently, I got into an argument with a series of colleagues surrounding the very simple question: If vampires were real, would you have sex with one?...

On His Second Try, 9-Year NFL Vet Brad Culpepper Proved Perfect For <i>Survivor</i>
You think Survivor is a reality show, but it’s in many ways actually a sport—and former professional athletes have not been very good at it....

<i>Twin Peaks</i> Made No Sense At All And Has Aged Like A Fine Wine<em></em>
The first season of Twin Peaks is almost perfect....

Fox News Pays Tribute To Roger Ailes By Putting The Worst Possible Shit On TV Today
The Fox News Specialists, the new Fox program that gave the world Joe Namath yakking about Syria with Karl Rove, has blessed us again. Yapping cheshire cat and First Take host Stephen A. Smith linked up with apartheid apologist Ted Nugent on another edition of the show this afternoon, and the two sp...

Nashville TV Station Thinks The Predators Are In The Stanley Cup Finals
“PREDS HEAD TO STANLEY CUP FINALS!”...

We're Never Getting Another <i>Game Of Thrones</i> Book, But HBO Will Be Making <i>Thrones</i> Spinoffs Forever<em></em>
Normally around this time in May, Game of Thrones, HBO’s hit show about sailing and cousin-fucking, is approaching the halfway point of its season. The course of the season’s plot has been charted, glowery dudes have glowered across dimly lit tables at each other, and at least one character has been...

Scott Van Pelt's 1 Big Thing A Tribute To Laid-Off ESPNers
Like Bob Ley and a number of other ESPN hosts today, ESPN midnight SportsCenter anchor Scott Van Pelt addressed today’s ESPN layoffs during his trademark 1 Big Thing segment. Van Pelt expressed sympathy for his departed former colleagues, noting that they did nothing wrong to “deserve” being laid of...

Which TV Shows Have The Most People Boned To?
Time for your letters! ...

The Time Has Come For <i>The Americans'</i> Philip Jennings To Defect
I like watching The Americans because I like watching two characters who are, without question, worse parents that I am. As much as I fuck up, I will never have to shield my kids from the fact that I have slaughtered dozens of innocent people, and I will not then attempt to indoctrinate the oldest o...
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NFL's Head Of Officiating Leaving To Become A TV Guy [Update]
NFL VP of officiating Dean Blandino, whose job it is to publicly eat shit every time the the referees blow a call (he eats a lot of shit), is leaving the league for that sweet TV life....

Report: West Virginia Governor Has Spent Months Trying To Replace Marshall's Football Coach
Jim Justice was elected governor of West Virginia five months ago. Ever since, he’s been campaigning to oust Marshall football coach Doc Holliday in favor of his longtime friend and former Marshall coach Bobby Pruett, according to a report from the Charleston Gazette-Mail this week....

Noah Syndergaard Jacks Philly Phanatic's ATV For Pregame Joyride
Feel that warm breeze my friends, summer’s almost here. Time to hop on those ATVs....

West Virginia Pitcher Plucks Line Drive Right Out Of The Air With His Bare Hand
Alek Manoah is a big, talented pitcher for West Virginia who snagged this line drive out of the sky and got his team a slick double play....

What Year Is It?
What the hell is going on, here? I thought the show about the guys breaking out of prison ended like eight years ago. Now I am seeing commercials that are all like This Tuesday ... [grim men looking at each other through chain-link fence] ... on Fox ... [sooty-faced men being serious] ... you can ne...