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We all knew the truth. Eagles fans weren't comfortable being the swaggering nobility of the NFL, or even the NFC. Oh, they'll tell you loudly enough when the Birds, or any Philly team, is good. But it's at such a volume that it's easy to sense the insecurity hidden within. Maybe they don't throw batteries at Santa...Read more...

On Sunday, the Miami Dolphins got their season back on track. After an embarrassing defeat the week before on Monday night in which they let a win slip through their fingers against the Tennessee Titans, they stomped the New York Jets at home, 30-0.Read more...

For the past 10 years or so, the Flyers have just muddled. There has never been any particular direction. Sometimes they've been kinda good, but nowhere near good enough to do anything that mattered. Sometimes they've been kinda bad, occasionally really bad, but never by design with their sights set on a top pick and...Read more...

The Week 15 finale on Monday Night Football has the biggest NFC playoff ramifications of any game on the slate. The Philadelphia Eagles travel to Seattle to face the Seahawks in a game neither can afford to lose this late in the season. It's pretty apropos of these teams closing out Week 15, seeing how it's been as...Read more...

We're now into the Premier League fan's favorite time of year and it's symmetrical that it lines up with a child's favorite time of year, given both's penchant for inexplicable screaming and crying. It's holiday time, which means children and fans alike don't have to do anything but sit around, never put on hard...Read more...

A Black coach was fired at the beginning of 2021. But instead of the team with the Offensive Rookie of the Year hiring the hottest offensive coordinator in the league, who was Black, they chose a white coach. After two and a half seasons, that white coach was fired because he was worse than the Black coach who...Read more...

Here is where we look at some of the athletes and sports figures we've lost in 2023. That list includes football legends Jim Brown, and Dick Butkus, basketball HoFer Willis Reed, former men's college basketball coach Bob Knight, hockey Hall of Famer Bobby Hull, Heisman Trophy-winning running back Charles White,...Read more...

The Friday news dump has been generally found out for what it is. A way for slimy organizations to try to sneak another piece of larceny or incompetence or just generally distasteful act past the goalie of our awareness without the normal level of scrutiny. By now, the actual act of releasing news at that time makes a...Read more...

Taking an ass-whooping can is a part of life. Whether getting physically dominated or simply enduring a hard loss, that moment is eventually almost unavoidable for most people. The Dallas Cowboys got their ass kicked in a physical sense all throughout their Week 15 matchup against the Buffalo Bills.Read more...

We have three Sundays left. Three more Sundays until that IV is ripped out of our arms and we are forced to trudge through the subsequent eight months not being able to start the week with at least 10 NFL games. With the holidays on the way to provide a bit of a distraction from that fate, let's talk MVP while the NFL...Read more...

The Atlanta Falcons remaining in the thick of the NFC South picture has to be a source of torment for the team's fans. Two weeks ago they were 6-6 and alone atop the division. Following an ugly 9-7 loss to the formerly 1-12 Carolina Panthers, Atlanta is now 6-8 and a full game behind the New Orleans Saints and Tampa...Read more...

Entering Week 15, the Kansas City Chiefs were in the midst of a rough patch where they'd lost four of their last six games. That includes the previous two weeks against Green Bay and Buffalo, games most assumed they'd win coming in. Despite not performing like Super Bowl champs, the scheduling gods dropped a blessing...Read more...

Some fans will do anything for attention, and then there are content creators for whom attention is the entire point. One example of the latter tried his luck on Saturday during the Lindenwood versus Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis college hoops game. With less than 90 seconds left on the clock and...Read more...

The first two games of the NFL's Saturday football lineup featured four backup quarterbacks. Instead of Joe Burrow, Kirk Cousins, Anthony Richardson and Kenny Pickett, we got Jake Browning, Nick Mullens, Gardner Minshew and Mitch Trubisky. Thank god for Jared Goff and Russell Wilson in the night game, or there...Read more...

It is the 17th anniversary of one of the last big brawls the NBA has seen. It's so infamous it even has its own Wikipedia page.Read more...

The Los Angeles Dodgers pulled out all the stops for their Shohei Ohtani pitch. That included bringing back Kobe Bryant from the dead.Read more...

Welcome to Deadspin's The Sports Nihilist, where all is for naught, and we are but accidental jolts of electrified meat stuck to the surface of a rock in an indifferent universe.Read more...

We didn't believe that Florida State was worthy of the college football playoffs without starting quarterback Jordan Travis - and it appears the CFP committee also agreed with that sentiment.Read more...

The Kansas City Chiefs have lost three of their last four games - including two straight - and sit just a game ahead of the resurgent Denver Broncos atop the AFC West. While there is certainly plenty of blame to go around for the team's struggles, Kadarius Toney remains at the center of all of it.Read more...

Ja Morant spoke to the media Friday for the first time since the end of last season and the announcement of his 25-game suspension that ends Monday. The Memphis Grizzlies' All-NBA guard said all of the right things while acknowledging that his behavior is critically more important than a soundbite.Read more...

While it's hard to resist the temptation to point out noticing when a team that has Matt Nagy anywhere near it is melting down, because I know it oh, so well, the Kansas City Chiefs have bigger problems than that. When everyone is blaming the refs over a totally correct call, it's pretty obvious they're trying to...Read more...

That dull roar you hear in the distance would be the momentum of the Edmonton Oilers. They're kind of out there, admittedly, which is why your house isn't shaking. Only so much a team can do from the hinterlands of Alberta. - Sam Fels Read MoreRead more...

Much like Susie Izzard (Drink!) says chiropractors LIVE FOR THE NOISE!" I too live for the noise of the offseason. We can't get much more than Shohei Ohtani and his reps donated to us, or at least their methods of sending the baseball press into orbit did. There should be much more to come, but the biggest move to be...Read more...

What a typical response to racism from the head coach of Illinois State men's basketball. During a home game on Saturday, Ryan Pedon got in an altercation with Norfolk State head coach Robert Jones. A situation that was none of Pedon's business, because Jones was not even talking in the direction of his team. -...Read more...

Full disclosure, I've never been on board with the Kansas City Chiefs. Sure, they were, for a while, the best team in America, with a young and exciting generational talent under center and a head coach who never had to answer for anything because he wears Hawaiian shirts, has a funny mustache, and struggled with...Read more...

In the shock of the MLB offseason, the Kansas City Royals have been one of the league's most active teams in free agency. While the Dodgers are locking up the biggest names, the Royals are dishing out deals to every player you forgot was still playing. In total, Kansas City has already committed $105 million in free...Read more...

The Cleveland Cavaliers will be without their second and third leading scorers for the foreseeablefuture.Read more...

With the Chargers season officially over, the team finally removed the tumor that was its coach and general manager, firing coach Brandon Staley and GM Tom Telesco. After another dismal showing, amid a depressing season that caps a now discontinued and pitiful tenure, the Chargers' fortunes are surely to change,...Read more...

Following a historic loss to the Las Vegas Raiders, the Los Angeles Chargers fired head coach Brandon Staley and GM Tom Telesco, according to ESPN's Adam Schefter.Read more...

Updated Dec. 15: The Carolina Panthers are putting Hayden Hurst on injured reserve, ending the tight end's season.

Hasn't Tyrod Taylor been through enough at this point?Read more...

Things are looking very bleak for the Los Angeles Chargers. Not only is Justin Herbert done for the year, but the Bolts went out and got absolutely torched by the Raiders to the tune of 63-21 on Thursday Night Football.Read more...

One team is using this season to show people that they aren't who they've always been. The other is hoping this postseason won't end like it usually does - with embarrassment. When Detroit travels to Dallas in two weeks, we'll have a better idea of which team is destined to repeat history.Read more...

Tyreek Hill is facing two paternity lawsuits from two different women who are claiming they had his children this year and are seeking child support from the Miami Dolphins wide receiver, who wed his fiancee Keeta Vaccaro last month.Read more...

As the holidays near, it's easy to imagine the wishlists of certain NBA teams across the league. We've highlighted what specific teams should be asking Santa to course-correct their season or become the contender we all expected. Let's dive into the top 10.Read more...

Unsigned NBA wing James Johnson emerges from a cabin carrying a log. Meanwhile, on a television screen behind him, highlights of Giannis Antetokounpo hulking out on the sidelines and in the players' tunnel repeats in a loop.Read more...

The Dodgers are certainly the story of the offseason already. Tends to happen when you sign the biggest free agent in history with the biggest contract in history that also is kind of the weirdest contract in history. They're also not done, apparently.Read more...

Tackling another human being is not easy. A good little-league coach teaches a step-by-step approach of facemask up, chest-to-chest contact, wrap, grab cloth, and drive. However, a live ball carrier does not stand still. In order to tackle fully equipped ball carriers who sprint, slide, spin and shake, coaches usually...Read more...

Cam Newton has earned the right to stake his claim for the Content Clickbait King throne. He was a former MVP, Heisman Trophy winner, national champion and Super Bowl competitor. Newton recently caught a wave of backlash for classifying Brock Purdy, Dak Prescott, Jared Goff and Tua Tagovailoa as game managers....Read more...

The NFL's plan for global domination took another step forward this week as the league announced it will play a game in South America for the first time. Cue the trumpets, horns and dollar bills falling from the sky like confetti. Get ready, Brazil, here comes a little bloodsport to pique your morbid curiosity.Read more...

One of the biggest names in NFL officiating revealed that there have been attempts to fix games for gambling purposes.Read more...

The league has an offensive line problem, according to longtime lineman Andrew Whitworth.Read more...

After a day of internet outrage by the media and fans alike, Draymond Green has been sat down for an indefinite amount of time. The NBA said he'll have to meet certain league and team criteria before returning to the court. The punishment isn't surprising, nor is it easy to evaluate considering it's open-ended.Read more...

Many fans saw the Colorado/Colorado State rivalry grow on the field, after Deion Sanders' Buffaloes won in double overtime back in September.Read more...

The Champions League group stage spent most of its time getting maligned, some of that in bad faith from the biggest clubs who just wanted to mold the competition to their whims. But their main argument held a lot of water, which was that it lacked drama or suspense, as for the most part the top clubs in Pot 1 would...Read more...

GameBallGate just got more interesting.Read more...

Some money is better than no money until you realize how much more money you should be getting.Read more...

It's crazy to think someone can get to the height of NFL general manager - the position solely responsible for making roster and personnel decisions - all while not knowing football.Read more...

In the second consecutive season of many NFL teams having a revolving door at quarterback, Easton Stick is one of the latest unproven backups thrust into a starting gig.Read more...

Kevin Durant had some strong words for former Warriors teammate Draymond Green.Read more...