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The New York Yankees have finally acquired outfielder Juan Soto from the San Diego Padres, according to New York Post columnist Joel Sherman, and ESPN's Jeff Passan.Read more...

The next time you're out and about and happen to run into Minnesota Timberwolves star Anthony Edwards, don't dare refer to him as an All-Star. Even though he is indeed a one-time All-Star selection," he won't acknowledge this fact. He doesn't count it since he wasn't a first-choice selection to the team.Read more...

One year ago, Deion Sanders' swift exit from Jackson State's sideline brought a swell of attention to HBCU football that hadn't existed in decades. What it didn't bring were more opportunities for the coaches who are essentially lifers, no matter how much they've proven themselves. Before Sanders took the Colorado...Read more...

Trevor Lawrence's injury is apparently not as bad as it looked on Monday night. He has been diagnosed with a high ankle sprain and Jacksonville Jaguars head coach Doug Pederson said on Tuesday that Lawrence has not yet been ruled out for Sunday.Read more...

Former NFL player Sergio Brown is pleading not guilty to murdering his mother and hiding her body.Read more...

Shohei Ohtani, the biggest baseball star in the world, has kept his free agency campaign notoriously quiet.Read more...

Toronto Raptors head coach Darko Rajakovic is getting creative to attempt to create a winning streak- by offering to buy the team dinner if they beat the Miami Heat on Wednesday night.Read more...

With lacrosse being added to the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles, it is only right that the group of people who invented the sport get an invite too.Read more...

Three-time Stanley Cup Champion Patrick Kane signed with the Detroit Red Wings last month and is eying a return to the ice this week against San Jose after having hip resurfacing surgery this past summer.Read more...

There are three tiers of NBA existence: Teams stuck in the mud, teams trying to fit through a championship window and future contenders waiting their turn. Prior to Tyrese Haliburton's first full season as a Pacer, Indiana was rudderless and stuck on a road to nowhere. Aside from Haliburton, there wasn't much to look...Read more...

The Toronto Maple Leafs fixated on the wrong things? I know, it's a crazy time and we'll have to get through it together, with intellect and a savoir-faire.Read more...

We all know the New York Yankees were in the market for a left fielder. But while linked to San Diego Padres slugger Juan Soto, the Bronx Bombers instead swung a trade with the rival Red Sox for Alex Verdugo - a right fielder.Read more...

On Friday, 32 members of the University of Oregon's women's beach volleyball and rowing teams filed a class action lawsuit in federal court that accuses the University of depriving female athletes of equal treatment and benefits, equal athletic aid, and equal opportunities to participate in varsity intercollegiate...Read more...

Some hockey players never smile, laugh, or joke around with the media.Read more...

The NFL MVP race is heating up as we near the home stretch of the 2023 regular season. Dak Prescott has been phenomenal on the field over the past few games, but Brock Purdy has recently entered the fray with some big performances over some of the better teams in the league. Most have recognized Prescott as the...Read more...

The National Baseball Hall of Fame is set to revive the Negro League's East-West All-Star game with a legends exhibition in Cooperstown, New York next May.Read more...

Human nature drives us to dump on new concepts and the IST has inspired a whole host of reasons for the NBA Cup to receive hate. There's a lot not to like including the scoring differentials playing a role in who advances, sneakers sliding around on the NBA's personalized ice rinks, the 30-team field being whittled...Read more...

Ever watch two teams, at the same time, trapped in a simulation, a pantomime, merely a dramatization of a football game? Either with the full knowledge that they are trapped within the parameters of a social experiment that they cannot escape? Or unaware of the boundaries placed upon them?Read more...

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If they're going to shut you out, then don't show up.

It's back! The transfer portal is here to pilfer players and give head coaches everywhere migraines. Quarterbacks are looking for upgrades or second and third chances. DJ Uiagalelei and Cam Ward furthered Oregon State and Washington State's misery as neither QB opted to explore the unknown of life without a...Read more...

The finality of the Pac-12 is depressing. The Washington Huskies beat the Oregon Ducks, 34-31, on Friday night, and looked like a title contender doing it. Michael Penix had his full array of receivers, with Jalen McMillan returning to grab nine balls for 131 yards. Husky running back Dillon Johnson added 151 on the...Read more...

The Buffalo Bills might be the biggest disappointment of this NFL season. A supposed Super Bowl contender, as predicted by many, can barely stay alive in the wild-card race. Buffalo lost another game on Sunday in Philadelphia, which they could've won had their coach not folded in crunch time. Too many bad late-game...Read more...

When you continue to embrace a man who reportedly impregnated a 13-year-old when he was in college, and honor that same man regularly by inviting him to marquee league events (like the 2023 All-Star Game) alongside Kareem Abdul Jabbar and LeBron James, it makes it really hard to discipline a current player for...Read more...

On the surface, Cody Bellinger's life is about to get better no matter what. He was a down-ballot MVP candidate last season who's heading into free agency, as well as a former MVP and Rookie of the Year. He would have been labeled a unicorn back in the day, given his ability to play Gold Glove-level defense in...Read more...

(UPDATE): According to reports, the Blackhawks have said Corey Perry was released because of an incident involving a team employee. No further details were provided by the team. Read MoreRead more...

In the end, the Chicago Bears screwed up what could have been something historic. Last week they managed to be the first team to lose while winning the turnover battle by three and holding the ball for 40 minutes. They had the chance to do it two weeks in a row and live forever. Instead, they're just the galaxy's joke...Read more...

There is probably a long treatise to how a crumbling empire of a baseball team wants to honor Henry Kissinger, the architect of American exceptionalism being an excuse to do whatever that country wants around the world that only led to this crumbling empire, but quite frankly I'm too tired and incapable in half a...Read more...

Hello there, esteemed reader, and welcome to Deadspin's IDIOT OF THE MONTH, the world-renowned series in which we mostly just make fun of Aaron Rodgers every few weeks. (Hi, Tom Laforgia!)Read more...

The NBA is Ball-less after Lamelo suffered an ankle injury earlier this week that will leave him sidelined for what sounds like at least a few weeks. Shams Charania reports that it's a sprain of the same ankle Ball fractured last season. As the Charlotte Hornets prepare for life without LaMelo, the Chicago Bulls have...Read more...

In 1992, Deion Sanders was named first-team All-Pro for the first time in his career as a cornerback for the Atlanta Falcons. One of the games he missed that season was to play in the World Series for the Atlanta Braves. They lost to the Toronto Blue Jays in six games. Those who thought that Sanders playing football...Read more...

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The story of this early NBA season in the In-Season Tournament for no other reason than the league wants to cram it down our throats. However, this is not another diatribe about that mockery of a cup. That's been done, so allow me to present to you the real stories at the quarter-ish mark of the season: The Orlando...Read more...

The Golden State Warriors should be reeling after squandering a 24-point lead against the Sacramento Kings in their NBA In-Season Tournament's group stage exit. Yet, they're oddly sanguine about backsliding below .500 since they launched out of the regular season gates to a 6-2 start. Klay Thompson is the most at ease...Read more...

The Dallas Cowboys may have missed out on another free agent signing in former Indianapolis Colts linebacker Shaquille Leonard. Quite frankly, Jerry Jones may have lost some of his mojo for drawing players in. Players used to flock to the Cowboys, but Leonard's choice has reportedly come down to Dallas and division...Read more...

Matt Rhule will not go quietly into the offseason. The Nebraska coach opted to make news, again, by saying some dumb stuff off the field. This time it wasn't to preen about integrity and honesty, but rather to let college football know that he knows how the game's played - and isn't going to bend.Read more...

When the Big Ten signed a massive seven-year, $7 billion media rights deal with Fox, CBS, and NBC last year, ESPN was left out in the cold. But if championship weekend gets wild and Michigan and Ohio State are lucky enough to find themselves both in the College Football Playoff with the opportunity to play each other...Read more...

Jason Kidd was in a foul mood after the Dallas Mavericks' 121-115 victory against the Houston Rockets on Wednesday. It was the final game of the NBA's inaugural In-Season Tournament for the Mavericks, since they will not be advancing past the group stage. Them missing out on the knockout round would be a much more...Read more...

It's no surprise that journeyman quarterback Josh Dobbs re-entered the atmosphere. Players are backups for a reason, and it was only a matter of time before Dobbs reminded folks why he was available multiple times this season. What is a surprise about this current predicament is after the Vikings used assets for the...Read more...

One thing that became apparent during the final night of the NBA's In-Season Tournament Group Stage was that the Chicago Bulls stink.Read more...

When the U.S. is at war with China in 20 years, on the list of microaggressions that incited the conflict will surely be NBA-China relations. The Association's dealings in the People's Republic of China are so well-documented and lucrative that they created in-roads for its players, who may not realize the complexity...Read more...

The NBA has really outdone itself this time. This In-Season tournament nobody asked for in the first place has gotten more convoluted as it extends into the later stages. Rewarding teams as they lose is the biggest participation trophy-era thing there could be. Sure, the analytics crowd is juiced about point...Read more...

Not content to have spread misinformation about the COVID vaccine, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the therapeutic effects of the sounds of dolphin sex, and the softening" of society, Rodgers, a man who took courses in American Studies" at Cal Berkeley, where he did not graduate with a degree in anything relating to science or...Read more...

Once was a coincidence - but, not really. Twice was proof of the pattern. Steve Wilks keeps getting the short end of the stick. And the owners that fire him always wind up paying for it.Read more...

On the one hand, the architects of this PSG team probably should be applauded for actually taking the time to step back and try to create a team instead of collecting players. Messi left, Neymar decamped for Saudi Arabia and PSG didn't chase whatever shiny thing they could find to plug the holes, not of the...Read more...

There's no such thing as a good echo chamber. Eventually, bad narratives begin bouncing around, spreading and taking root at a cellular level.Read more...

The Hawks just can't get out of it, can they?

The great thing about fall guys in the NFL is they're interchangeable. It could be a quarterback, a coordinator, a distraction, the head coach, the owner, or Roger Goodell, and usually there's enough vitriol to spread around. Take the New York Jets for example. They're one of the most scrutinized franchises in the NFL...Read more...

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Before the 2023 season started, ESPN's Tom Luginbill said that Colorado might have the worst roster in college football. By the end of the 2023 regular season, Deion Sanders was strictly focused on the future, given that he had failed at the present.Read more...