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Yesterday, during the third round at TPC Boston, Sergio Garcia lined up an eagle putt on the par-four fourth hole, and just blew it. His putt wound up a good 13 feet from the hole, far enough away that Garcia was really, really pissed. So pissed, in fact, that he smashed the absolute bejeezus out of his putter,…Read more...

Some people are fans of the Green Bay Packers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Green Bay Packers. This 2017 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here.Read more...

Ball Is Life has been following John Wall around this offseason, mostly to some workouts and a bunch of pro-am contests involving a couple NBA guys playing against a bunch of brave randos. One such contest was Ludacris’s LudaDay Weekend Celebrity Basketball Game, held yesterday at Morehouse Forbes Arena in Atlanta.Read more...

The Buffalo Bills today signed Joe Webb as a backup quarterback. You may remember Joe Webb from when he last threw a pass in a regular season NFL game, which was in friggin’ 2011. Webb has made more appearances as a wide receiver (1) than as a quarterback (0) in the years since.Read more...

It’s nothing short of cruel that the Mets have to find a way to finish out these next 26 games. Their season has gone so completely into the toilet; they haven’t won consecutive games since August 10; they’re 24 games back of the Nationals in the NL East and 14 games out of the NL Wild Card; they’ve lost six of seven…Read more...

Anthony Buzbee is a Houston attorney and a member of the Texas A&M Board of Regents. He is also apparently not much a fan of Aggies head coach Kevin Sumlin, and last night’s historic collapse against UCLA was the final straw:Read more...

How do you even get the fake-spike play called and arranged with 40 seconds left, at the end of what could be a historic comeback, but just as easily could be a gut-punch of a narrow loss?

After the outcome of last night’s Florida State-Alabama showdown was already more or less decided, FSU star QB Deondre Francois rolled out to his right and was sacked from behind by Ronnie Harrison. Francois left the game clutching his left knee, and after murky reports out of FSU indicated that Francois’s injury was…Read more...

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Who can say exactly when it became fun to track the movements of Brock Osweiler, the former trumped-up backup to Peyton Manning who signed a lucrative four-year deal with the Texans and has been spiraling his way back to Denver in the, umm, year since.Read more...

I want to show you just the worst dinger you are likely to see in this or any other year. It happened in the first inning of today’s Tigers-Indians game. Are you ready? I mean I really want you to get ready for this one. Here goes:Read more...

15-year-old Patrick Ponce has set a new 3x3 Rubik’s Cube world record at 4.69 seconds.

There are times—yes, there are—when LaVar Ball is right. Often he is a grandstanding buffoon who gets the benefit of the doubt for drumming up attention for his sons, without any particular concern for whether his sons much want that attention, and with even less concern for whether the gains earned by that attention…Read more...

Washington safety Su’a Cravens reportedly informed team president Bruce Allen Sunday morning that he is retiring from the NFL, before the start of his second season as a professional. Cravens started three games for Washington last season as a rookie, and recorded 23 tackles and an interception in 11 games.Read more...

Cleveland’s police union will refuse to participate in the raising of the flag during the national anthem ceremony at the Browns home opener, to protest Browns players kneeling during the national anthem.Read more...

When Howard University’s football team kicked off against UNLV in Las Vegas last night, they did so as 45-point road underdogs. When the game ended, with Howard on top 43-40 after a brilliant performance from true freshman quarterback Caylin Newton, the Bison had pulled the biggest upset by point spread in college…Read more...

Pedro Florimon was called up from Philadelphia’s minor league system in mid-August, and he’s strung together a really successful few weeks with the team, putting together a .333/.375/.467 slash line in 14 games with the Phillies. In the second inning of tonight’s tilt against the Marlins, Florimon pounded a slow…Read more...

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This past week Curt Schilling organized a collection of cash and supplies to be transported to Houston, where such things are urgently, desperately needed. Schilling provided a trailer and would be doing the transporting himself, and organized volunteers to collect and sort and pack and guard donations in the buildup…Read more...

Mike Klis of 9News tweeted a little while ago that the Broncos are expected to kick the tires on bad NFL quarterback and former salary dump Brock Osweiler. What he tweeted next—and immediately deleted—sure as hell looked like instructions to stiff-arm his competition:Read more...

I love that you love your cats, but your cats hate you.Read more...

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If there was one thing the ongoing Colin Kaepernick unemployment saga really needed, it was a flaccid, incomprehensibly contrarian op-ed in the dear old New York Times. Boy does this one, from Colin Fleming, not disappoint:Read more...

The Ball family, of Big Baller Brand shoes and the Lakers’ point-guard-of-the-future role, have a new Facebook reality show called Ball in the Family. I had no idea the Ball family ever did not have a Facebook reality show, but here we are.Read more...

Spain’s wonderful Gasol-led national team today took on a Czech Republic squad that was distressingly overpowered given the presence of Wizards’ backup and future All-NBA guard Tomas Satoransky. This was a Eurobasket group stage match, played in Romania.

Roberto Aguayo’s harrowing, steep spiral out of the NFL continued today, as the living embodiment of an imposter syndrome nightmare was released for the second time this offseason, this time by the Chicago Bears.Read more...

European esports organization H2K issued a letter yesterday to the League of Legends community, saying it will not continue to participate in the European League Championship Series unless Riot Games creates a better financial structure for teams.Read more...

Valencia, Spain, is a place of many good festivals. For example, every March they do this festival called Las Fallas where all the neighborhoods in the city construct these beautiful, elaborate, occasionally gigantic papier-mâché figures and scenes that fill most of whatever intersection or square or park in which…Read more...

A former SB Nation site manager filed a collective action lawsuit against Vox Media today in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

At the beginning of the NFL offseason, the Cleveland Browns acquired a second-round pick from the Texans in exchange for taking on bad QB Brock Osweiler and his $16 million salary. Cleveland drafted Notre Dame QB DeShone Kizer in the second round of the NFL Draft, although the thinking was that they’d give Osweiler…Read more...

Serena Williams has given birth to a baby girl with fiance Alexis Ohanian, according to her sister, Venus Williams. Us Weekly also reported the news.Read more...

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The NFL’s decision to suspend Ezekiel Elliott for six games appears to have been based less on allegations that Elliott physically assaulted his ex-girlfriend than on what the league perceived as his lack of cooperation with its year-long investigation, according to hearing transcripts made public in the players’…Read more...

Oleg Verniaiev is one of the best male gymnasts in the world. In Rio, the Ukrainian nearly defeated Kohei Uchimura, the greatest male gymnast of all-time, for the Olympic all-around gold. And he’s looking to be an early favorite for the world title at the upcoming world championships in Montreal.

The showcase event of the world’s most provincial sport takes place on Sunday in Dublin. A Galway squad takes on Waterford in the All-Ireland Hurling final, as Croke Park will be packed with a crowd of 80,000. In the U.S. or any nation other than Ireland, this matchup, and any hurling event, might have trouble drawing…Read more...

Welcome to Meat Sack, a guide to sports-related body horror. Today’s column is about bloody shits.

At the Green Bay Packers’ annual Welcome Back Luncheon, one rather forward fan decided to give star quarterback Aaron Rodgers a smooch on the head:

The air is crisp and cool, the sky streaked with low, scuttling, ragged clouds, heading out of town in a hurry, like seasonal tourists. Football is back. School is back. Summer is ending. Yes, it’s time to convince myself that I can tolerate terrible emo butthole takes like this one without throttling someone.

The air is crisp and cool, the sky streaked with low, scuttling, ragged clouds, heading out of town in a hurry, like seasonal tourists. In quiet moments you can hear a crow. Somewhere in your immediate surroundings, should you care to look for it, is a spiderweb. They’re everywhere right now, spiders that is to say,…Read more...

As the U.S. Open heads into its first weekend, let’s have a moment of silence for all the top seeds gone too soon.Read more...

Last month, when I was at the 2017 National Championships in Anaheim, I overheard two former national team members talking about how things feel different this year. They were referring to how gymnasts seemed less fearful of speaking publicly about what they had endured during their careers than they had been in years.Read more...

ROCKLAND, Maine—The New Hampshire/Maine split on I-95 in Portsmouth, N.H., is unpredictable. Sometimes you’re able to breeze through to your final destination—back to your shit hole of a dorm room in Durham, or off to the Kittery Trading Post to buy a crossbow and a bottle of deer piss—but other times you’re forced to…Read more...

Let’s revisit the one part of yesterday’s Roger Federer match that made me happy. Lob falling back to earth, a few feet from the baseline—let it bounce, right? No rush.Read more...

A transcript of Ezekiel Elliott’s appeal hearing with the NFL has been made public in court filings of the players’ association’s lawsuit against the league, and it contains testimony from Lisa Friel, the NFL’s senior vice president for investigations, in which she admits that the lead investigator who worked on the…Read more...

More than 30% of the freshman class at Harvard University had one or more relatives attend before them. That should be illegal.Read more...

Editor’s Note: Yeats (or perhaps Achebe) was right: Things fall apart. And for The Root Senior Editor Kirsten West Savali, in the last year, those three words have become like a living mantra.

Some people are fans of the Dallas Cowboys. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Dallas Cowboys. This 2017 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here.Read more...

If you’ve ever listened to the radio or watched daytime television, you know this ad: “If you or a loved one has been diagnosed with mesothelioma you may be entitled to financial compensation.” Of course you know this. There’s even a years-old meme.Read more...

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