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21 Jump(shot) Street: Virginia basketball coach suits up, impersonates 13-year-old JV player

Adult sensibilities don’t belong in youth sports. Grown people take sports way too seriously. Countless times overzealous parents, coaches, and spectators have tainted the purity of amateur sports. An assistant coach on the staff of the junior varsity basketball team in Portsmouth, Virginia recently...

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MLB’s past is still evolving, and not just by rightly adding Negro League stats

Baseball-Reference is the gold standard for record keeping in a game whose numbers are its lifeblood. The site that Sean Forman built has supplanted decades of encyclopedias, carving out a niche on the Internet as the most authoritative source for statistics to connect baseball’s past to its present...

More evidence that umpire Angel Hernandez is the worst at his job in America

Hey, let’s watch Angel Hernandez suck at his job! Again. ...

It starts with Devin Booker & Chris Paul, but it’s up to DeAndre Ayton

On Monday, we had our first official legitimate Woj Bomb of the transactional madness that is the forthcoming weeks of NBA reporting — both exact and erroneous....

Houston Texans baffle NFL again with firing of PR star Amy Palcic

The Houston Texans have been a mess the past few years, but recently the bandages have been ripped off: There is no hiding the ugliness anymore....

MLB has a take-out-the-trash Friday as cheaters prosper, Mets clean house & Justin Turner skates

The Friday news dump is a time honored tradition, but baseball really went all in on it this time, not only with it being Friday, but with the drama of the American election continuing to unfold....

Lump Mike Piazza in with athletes for Trump after Pennsylvania rally appearance

Mamas, don’t let your sports heroes grow up to be Trumpers....

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....

Hey Big Ten, How About Daily COVID Testing for My Kid?

Well, the Big Ten finally cracked....

Football is the Perfect Reflection of America — That’s Not a Good Thing

They told us that sports were a reward for a functioning society. ...

Trump Killed College Football, He Can’t Try To Save It Now [UPDATED]

The powers that be in this country never cease to amaze me....

Max Kellerman Says Nothing but the Truth and it Drives Trumpers Crazy

Here’s a nomination for Truth Teller in Media award: Max Kellerman....

With Umpires Opting Out of the MLB Restart, is Now the Time for the Robots?

The robots will eventually come to Major League Baseball. But maybe we should start to consider them immediately....

Robot Umpire Performed About As Well As Human Umpire

Robot umps have finally made their way into pro baseball, and by all accounts they seem primed to make Angel Hernandez just a little less horrible at his job. A system known as TrackMan made its professional debut on Wednesday during the independent Atlantic League’s all-star game....

It's Getting Pretty Hard Not To Get Ejected From A Game Ángel Hernández Is Umpiring

There isn’t an umpire more widely despised by MLB players than Ángel Hernández, who has been infuriating people with his terrible calls for years now. This frustration has often boiled over into profane arguments followed by ejections, which is just how these things tend to go. But during last night...

Umpires Delay Game To Review Reliever's Motion, Greatly Confuse Dee Gordon

Most relief pitchers good enough to last eight seasons in the Major Leagues will have careers that look roughly as bizarre as Cory Gearrin’s. Some of those relievers are closers or setup aces or multi-inning firemen types, and they’ll have a more linear lot and make more money, but for the ones livi...

When Is The Best Time To Take A Dump?

Today, we’re talking about wallets, watching sports alone, asshole coaches, and more....

Trump Administration Overturns Deal Making It Easier For Cubans To Play In MLB

For decades, every Cuban-born player in Major League Baseball arrived in the United States only at the end of a long and dangerous extralegal process. That process was, by its nature, run exclusively by and mostly for the benefit of an international collection of creeps, from violent criminal gangs...

Tom Hallion Puts On A Ridiculous Spring Ump Show With Five Silly Ejections

Spring training is long. By this point, just about everyone is tired of it. Umpire Tom Hallion was apparently especially tired of it Thursday. Hallion ejected five guys—in three separate incidents, none of them particularly meaningful—in yesterday’s Tigers-Phillies game....