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The relationship between Stefon Diggs and the Buffalo Bills has reportedly been shaky for some time. Monday Night's performance at home against the Denver Broncos did little to make Diggs want to stick around past this season. Diggs' brother Trevon (Dallas Cowboys cornerback) couldn't contain his frustration during...Read more...

We're almost through it. Today we head to the left coast, where the champs live...well, not actually. They're in the middle, but they play in the division that's ostensibly supposed to be about the left coast. Anyway, that's not why you called! Let's run through the division that had the best race last year, and as...Read more...

While it's great that Zion Williamson is finally ready to shed his life as an influencer for a career in professional basketball, no one wants to hear the frustrations of a player who hasn't played in a single consequential NBA game. The New Orleans Pelicans' forward doesn't sound happy with his role, and is either...Read more...

Jimbo Fisher isn't the problem. The people who keep wasting millions on men like him are usually the same ones who act like they're poor whenever student-athlete compensation is discussed.Read more...

The most valuable player in college football has several connotations in college football's NIL age. Off the field, Arch Manning and Shedeur Sanders accrue higher earnings and interest on the free market. LSU's Jayden Daniels has climbed from 57th to 11th in On3's NIL Valuation Ranking. Name brand recognition is the...Read more...

If Chris Berman is indeed still alive, and not just some hologram or rejected Chuck E. Cheese animatronic figure at this point, he probably wouldn't go on air and say, NOBODY BLOWS THEIR OWN DICK OFF LIKE THE BUFFALO BILLS!" Not because it isn't true, but because he hasn't updated any of his catchphrases since the...Read more...

Kyler Murray finally returned for the Arizona Cardinals, making his season debut Sunday in a win over the Atlanta Falcons. The former No. 1 overall pick hadn't set foot on an NFL field in nearly a year after tearing his ACL last season. While Murray played well in his return, it's hard to ignore rumors about the...Read more...

Picking up our tour through the winter plans for all MLB teams, and today we land in the NL Central, where the only monster within might actually be starting to act like it.Read more...

There are volumes that could be written about what's wrong with the Los Angeles Clippers superteam. After all the ruckus James Harden started this summer, if you thought he'd arrive in tip-top shape, ready to make one last push at a title with the Clippers, then you're as gullible as every other team that has traded...Read more...

Death, taxes,and the right screeching about Megan Rapinoe.Read more...

We're almost a quarter of the way through the Premier League season. Thanks to 38 not being divisible by four, there really isn't a quarter-mark in the season. After the next round of fixtures after Thanksgiving, we'll have passed it.Read more...

Week 10 represented a tremendous opportunity for the Jacksonville Jaguars to show the NFL they were ready to be inserted into conversations with the big dogs in the league. Instead, they got steamrolled at home by the San Francisco 49ers, 34-3. This was an embarrassing loss, but it also had significant implications...Read more...

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In 2022, Ryan Tannehill wanted nothing to do with the new guy in town, Malik Willis - he's Black. In 2023, Tannehill went out of his way to make sure people know that he supports the newer guy in town, Will Levis - he's white.Read more...

If you thought the scores in your fantasy league - especially if it's PPR - were unusually high this week, it's not just you. The pass catchers of the NFL had themselves quite the Sunday in Week 10. All throughout the day, footballs were snatched out of the air from all angles, and for a great deal of yardage. Even...Read more...

One month into an NHL season isn't probably the time to panic - unless you're the Edmonton Oilers and the pressure cooker started a couple years ago. A 3-9-1 start has already left the Oil with something close to a Sisyphian climb. Sure, there's 69 games left, but we're just a week from Thanksgiving, when teams are...Read more...

Playing against the Cleveland Browns without OT Morgan Moses on Sunday was not an ideal scenario for the Baltimore Ravens. The Ravens would go on to lose their other bookend offensive tackle - Ronnie Stanley - in the fourth quarter and top cornerback Marlon Humphrey in the third. While this is far from an ideal...Read more...

If not for the logos on the helmets, you might not recognize the New York Giants as a pro football team. They were absolutely slaughtered for the second time this season by the Dallas Cowboys, 49-17, to fall to a paltry 2-8 record for the 2023 campaign. The G-Men are in quarterback purgatory with an injured starter...Read more...

When Josh Dobbs was going through his draft evaluation period, the running joke was that he would be the first quarterback to add additional questions to the Wonderlic. Dobbs' intellect has been a key aspect of his narrative since he enrolled at Tennessee as a 4.0 student with an interest in aeronautical engineering.

C.J. Stroud is well on his way to the best rookie quarterback performance in NFL history. Usually rookie quarterbacks are limited by their lack of professional experience and/or their coaches' lack of confidence in their grasp of the complexities of football at the NFL level. Through nine games, there appear to be no...Read more...

Jimbo Fisher finally got the hook after six underwhelming seasons at Texas A&M. It's not all bad. Fisher may never wind up in the College Football Hall of Fame, but his contract earned him a spot in the Gettin' Paid Hall of Fame. He can probably start his own university and athletic program with what Texas A&M owes...Read more...

Going to penalties, taking the last one, scoring, lifting the trophy. That's probably the perfect ending that most had designed for Megan Rapinoe and OL Reign in last night's NWSL Final against Gotham FC. A chance to make up, a little bit, for her penalty miss at the World Cup. Maybe even erase, just a smidge, her...Read more...

With two weeks remaining before conference title games, there's very little time for college football to have its weird week. The teams with one loss should have an opportunity to earn a bid with a conference title. There are nine Power Five teams with one loss or fewer - Georgia, Michigan, Ohio State, Florida State,...Read more...

Turns out Michigan didn't need a head coach or a quarterback to beat Penn State. In one of the more embarrassing losses since the Nittany Lions' loss to Ohio State a few weeks ago, the Wolverines were content running the ball right at Penn State en route to a 24-15 win.Read more...

The handling of the Michigan sign-stealing scandal has been a debacle from the start, and it culminated Friday with the Big Ten suspending coach Jim Harbaugh for the final three games. U-M filed a temporary restraining order against its own conference that it hopes can be expedited before kickoff at noon EST. Two of...Read more...

The wet dream of every NFL franchise is a good quarterback on a rookie contract. It's GM porn, and the slightest flash or jiggle of competency turns teams into '90s studio execs. The latest object of their fascination is Sam Howell. The Washington Commander quarterback is stacking up the kinds of numbers that make...Read more...

White privilege will always be a part of Chris Beard's story, but that's due to his race. However, his ability to remain hireable is due to his talent...and his race.Read more...

The expectations for Caitlin Clark are obscene. Let's get that out of the way now. She's coming off a run to the national title game and back-to-back-to-back seasons of averaging 27-plus points. While it's all but guaranteed she eclipses 27 PPG again, it might be hard to repeat the same team success. Iowa isn't UConn,...Read more...

Just a few weeks ago, I was explaining to someone who missed the Attitude Era why The People's Elbow is a great finishing move. It is the rising action that begins the moment when Dwayne The Rock" Johnson gathers his stance with that slight kick, to the moment when he pauses a couple steps after that second bounce...Read more...

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It's almost the end of the week, so that means another exciting matchup on Thursday Night Football. If only that were the case. Instead, viewers will be treated to a game between two teams with a combined record of 3-14 this season. The Carolina Panthers visit the Chicago Bears in a game somebody has to win. Although,...Read more...

Victor Wembanyama strutted into his debut at The Garden with all the confidence of a 7-foot-4 MonStar and walked out as a 6-foot-16 shell of himself.Read more...

The city of Philadelphia is riding high at the moment, being home to arguably the best team in the NFL and the hottest team in the NBA. The 76ers are off to a 6-1 start and are on a six-game winning streak. They haven't tasted defeat since opening night against the Milwaukee Bucks. And they are 4-0 since James Harden...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...

Sweet jesus lord, this division. This isn't so much figuring out what these five teams are going to do this winter so much as a study of existential dread and a pantomime of the collapse of society. These five teams will definitely play an MLB schedule next year. For reasons we can't identify. Put on your waders, this...Read more...

Being a 35-year-old grown man who's obsessed with a pop star who makes songs for pre-teens and sorority girls is one thing. And getting hired to cover her partly because of your obsession kind of makes sense. But, describing your approach to covering Taylor Swift to how professional sports journalists do their jobs...Read more...

Bill Belichick is a grown human being and can do whatever he wants. If he wishes to continue coaching football after his 72nd birthday to win a Super Bowl without Tom Brady, or simply because he is not ready for the silence of retirement, more power to him.Read more...

Every year, Scott Boras holds court at the GM meetings. Sometimes it's the winter meetings, sometimes it's both. Because both of those gatherings are basically just conventions where no media member can actually attend any of the seminars or see the meetings, Boras's beat poetry performed by a suburban dad after one...Read more...

The scene in San Francisco is much different than it was this time last year for the Golden State Warriors. This time last season, the team was trying to move past the Draymond Green-Jordan Poole incident and were on the struggle bus early on. One year later, Poole was shipped to Washington in favor of Chris Paul, and...Read more...

This year's relatively mundane College Football Playoff rankings may be lost amid the Big Ten's sign-stealing scandal, but fans should cherish this status quo now, because it's going to get extremely stupid in 2024. Instead of picking the best four teams from five power conferences, the committee will have to pick 12...Read more...

The G-League has found the ideal broadcast partner. For the next two seasons, games will be aired on the streaming service, Tubi. On Wednesday, the G-League put out a press release announcing this new partnership that will include some original content featuring the individual players as well as the games themselves.Read more...

Remember the NBA's 75th-anniversary ad campaign where Michael B. Jordan drives a bus down the fictional NBA Lane and narrates through the legacies of some of The Association's impact stars? The NBA Struggle Bus is a rickety old jalopy with torn-up seats driving down that same street, but at night, and the exhaust pipe...Read more...

A record 10 rookie quarterbacks will have started an NFL game this year after Sunday. While some were bound to start from Day 1 - i.e. the top picks Bryce Young, and C.J. Stroud - others have found their way into a starting gig via injuries to and/or inconsistency from incumbent signal-callers.Read more...

Less than 10 games into the NBA season, the Los Angeles Lakers have already logged a complaint to Commissioner Adam Silver's office regarding a lack of foul calls. However, according to reports, it wasn't concerning the team in general but about LeBron James. Of course, this action isn't unusual for teams, but doing...Read more...

Let's keep the ship rolling and move over to the NL's East Coast conglomerate, which may have sparked the game's best current rivalry. Or at least the one that has the most whining, non-Cardinals division. It's time for the NL East.Read more...

It's been nearly two and a half months since two women were wounded by a stray bullet(s?) while taking in a White Sox game at Guaranteed Rate Field. You'd think two fans getting shot while enjoying America's pastime would be big news - and it was, for a while. But this is Chicago, the city the right loves to point to...Read more...

Kyler Murray is about to test the advancements of modern science with a return to the field Sunday. The Arizona Cardinals quarterback tore his ACL in December, and either is in a rush to secure his starting gig or auditioning for a role elsewhere if the team continues on its current trajectory. At 1-8, the season is...Read more...

As is the case when it comes to missing children, it's about who it happens to - not that it's happening. And right now, the Chicago Blackhawks are in the midst of a sex scandal that would be the biggest story in sports - if Americans cared about hockey.

A person's last memory of Martavis Bryant in the NFL depends on perspective. For some, that last image might be the 36-yard touchdown pass that he caught for the Pittsburgh Steelers during their 45-42 Divisional Round loss to the Jacksonville Jaguars. Others might think of when he commented on Instagram Juju...Read more...

Brian Cashman held court for the New York media on Tuesday. He was not exactly in a charitable mood. Which was understandable, if only that he's had the same job for 25 years. Anyone's bound to get a little fidgety. Throw in the fact that he's been dealing with the New York media and New York fanbase, and it's a...Read more...