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Toxic pride is the NFL’s biggest obstacle to a much-needed playoff bubble
One of the biggest topics among some coaches, players and others throughout the NFL is a simple question: Will there be a bubble for the playoffs?...
Of course Michigan’s emergency stay-at-home order does not apply to its football team
Way back when in August 2020, the Daily Tar Heel, UNC-Chapel Hill’s student newspaper, wrote in a headline that the school had a “clusterfuck” on its hands....
Choker or Champion? Why the 2020 World Series will define Clayton Kershaw
For sure, a legacy hangs in the balance of this World Series....
Tanking for Trevor: This week's NFL Powerless Rankings
Deadspin is proud to introduce its weekly #TankforTrevor Powerless Rankings, where we examine the sorriest teams in the league who have the best chance of selecting Clemson star quarterback Trevor Lawrence in the 2021 NFL draft....
Dan Mullen, the guy who wanted 90,000 fans in the stands, has COVID-19
First, Florida coach Dan Mullen said that he wanted to see 90,000 people at the Gators’ game against LSU this week, having felt that Texas A&M’s loud crowd gave the Aggies an advantage in upsetting then-No. 4 Florida last Saturday....
This is where the Dodgers get to be the Dodgers
It’s rare when a team is favored to win a series when down 2-1. But then teams that are down 2-1 aren’t usually the Dodgers. Hell, the Dodgers might have still been favored before Game 3. After putting up 15 runs in the span of six outs over two games (four in the 9th of Game 2, 11 in the 1st of Gam...
Is Adam Gase a better coach than a potato? Wikipedia says no
Every single day that someone, like me, wakes up and remembers they are a Jets fan is a day they know will be filled with sadness, anger, confusion, and eventually resignation....
Kevin Cash continues to win by knowing how to lose
The Astros-Rays matchup for the right to head to Texas (boy, that makes it sound like a pyrrhic victory) has a lot of angles to it. It’s the league’s best contact team in the Astros vs. one of the worst in the Rays. It’s a bullpen full of darkness-bringers in Tampa versus one made up of guys who sou...
There are like 50 teams in New York and they all suck — including the Yankees
Start spreading the news: New York is OFFICIALLY the Loser Capital of sports....
Sunday Scaries: The Week 5 bets you should avoid
Welcome to another installment of the Sunday Scaries where NFL Sundays are becoming, fittingly, scarier....
Rangers win race against no one to sign the worst player available in NHL free agency
Henrik Lundqvist, bought out last week by the New York Rangers, found a new home as soon as NHL free agency opened up on Friday, joining the Washington Capitals on a one-year deal to try to chase the Stanley Cup that eluded the 38-year-old for his whole career on Broadway....
Baseball has lost yet another Hall of Famer in 2020 as Yankees ace Whitey Ford dies at age 91
Unlike many of the parks in New York City, there is no sign or marker at Whitey Ford Athletic Field to explain how the place got its name, just a standard list of park rules posted at the entrance to a ballfield and exercise area....
MLB Playoffs gets signature moment in 'Bellinger-robs-Tatis' — the problem is sport doesn't have enough of them
You knew it as soon as you saw it. It’ll be a play that MLB will try and dine out on for years to come. ...
Division Series playoff preview: Where the hell are we?
Baseball has gotten back to the playoff rounds we remember, sort of. The wild card round, which everyone thought was going to produce some real chaos and be totally unfair, only threw up one true upset: the Marlins beating the Cubs, because the Cubs can’t hit fastballs, which seems like it’s on the ...
Cowboys defense nonexistent like Trump’s COVID protocols, Ramsey and Tate try to 2-piece each other, and the NFC East is a joke
COVID-19 was the story for the league this week as multiple positive tests forced teams to shut down facilities and games to be postponed. ...
In Fernando Tatis Jr., baseball finally has a must-see TV star
The storylines are plentiful as MLB’s Division Series kickoff today....
The Heat is off in NBA Finals; Time is a flat circle in WNBA Finals; Central teams all spit bit in MLB playoffs
The Lakers and Heat did indeed play a basketball game...
It wouldn’t be the NBA Finals without devastating injuries
It happens practically every year during the NBA Finals....
There is good in this world, Mr. Frodo, and it’s the San Diego Padres
Have you ever just stood and stared at it? Marveled at its beauty?...
