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On Saturday, LaDainian Tomlinson will be in Canton getting inducted into the Hall of Fame. Two of his longtime Chargers teammates, Philip Rivers and Antonio Gates, will not be there to cheer them on, though it appears they’d sure like to be.Read more...

It shouldn’t have been a surprise that Brandon Kintzler was traded today, given that he’ll be a free agent after this season and that the Twins made it clear they were looking to sell. But rather than sitting by the phone all day, he decided to go out and enjoy himself on the team’s off-day in San Diego. This is why…Read more...

Less than two weeks after he was called up to the major leagues, White Sox top prospect Yoán Moncada was carted off the field after colliding with teammate Willy García in the outfield during the sixth inning of tonight’s game against the Blue Jays. García was able to walk off under his own power, but he left the game…Read more...

Gio González took a no-hit bid into the ninth inning for the first time in his career, but a Dee Gordon single ensured that Miami would not go hitless on what would have been José Fernández’s 25th birthday.

Multiple federal agencies investigated claims that former Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight groped and verbally sexually harassed several female employees when he gave a speech at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in July 2015, according to newly-released documents.Read more...

Over the weekend, Italian officials popped a 53-year-old masters rider for racing with a hidden motor in his bicycle. Race organizers got a tip that the third-place rider at a race in Brescia on Saturday had been cheating and when they scanned his bike, they saw what looked like “a fire” in the seat tube and the rider…Read more...

This morning on Second Take, former Baltimore Ravens players Shannon Sharpe and Ray Lewis debated the Ravens wringing their hands over whether or not signing Colin Kaepernick would hurt their brand. Lewis’s position on police brutality—such that he articulates a clear stance—is that it’s a scourge, just not one that…Read more...

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Usually soccer teams come out onto the pitch accompanied by little kids, which is cute and all, I guess. As precious as star-struck children can be, though, they don’t compare to these sweet adoptable pups Chilean team Colo-Colo came out with this weekend:Read more...

After trying to fight for his right to vlog behind closed doors, UCF kicker Donald De La Haye took his clash with the NCAA public in June, blasting the governing body of college athletics for threatening to revoke his eligibility if he continued to create and post sports videos to his personal YouTube page. Today, the…Read more...

Lena Headey is all wildfire. There’s an unmistakable spring in Cersei Lannister’s step this season, as if the Sept of Baelor blows up behind her eyelids every time she blinks. Her arc really ended there, in that glorious green catharsis, and now she’s basking in the aftermath. All hail the Queen of the Ashes; to…Read more...

Most of the European soccer leagues haven’t even started yet and we already have an early contender for worst miss of the season. Take a bow, Valentin Costache of Dinamo Bucuresti, for this truly is an impressive feat of ineptitude.

Just when baseball’s deadline day looked to be a lot of hype with little payoff, we got an after-the-buzzer Rose-bomb:Read more...

At a fan forum on Sunday, Baltimore Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti answered a question about whether signing Colin Kaepernick would hurt the team’s image. Inherent in the question is the fact that Kaepernick’s play would be good for the team. Yes, the question assumes, Kaepernick is the best option to fill a gaping hole…Read more...

Sonny Gray is going to New York and he should probably pack a razor.

The Kansas City Chiefs practice at Missouri Western State University. The school’s sports teams are nicknamed the Griffons, a fact that baffled three panelists on NFL Network today.

Fourteen years after reaching for a foul ball, tipping it away from Moises Alou in Game 6 of the 2003 NLCS, and entrenching himself forever in the tortured mythos of Cubs fandom, Steve Bartman will receive a World Series ring.Read more...

Recently relegated Sunderland got their asses handed to them in a friendly against Celtic on Saturday, losing by a score of 5-0. After the match, some Sunderland fans happened upon Darron Gibson at a bar. Confronted by the fans’ frustrations, the Northern Irish midfielder is caught on video going on a slurry, rambling…Read more...

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

According to a report from the Los Angeles Times, the citizens of L.A. will be forced to deal with the 2028 Olympics. Organizers in L.A. had been pushing hard for the 2024 Games and even went as far as saying they wouldn’t accept the “consolation prize” of the 2028 Games if Paris got 2024. Unfortunately, it seems they…Read more...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y.—It was always going to be a losing proposition. I came here for Hall of Fame induction weekend with one question: Where are the Bud Selig fans?

The best female gymnasts in the United States faced off at the U.S. Classic, the final opportunity for gymnasts to qualify to the upcoming national championships. For those gymnasts hoping to secure their berths at nationals, Saturday’s Classic mattered a great deal. But for the rest—the best of the best, who are…Read more...

The Jets held a forum at training camp today in which a group of about 150 fans got to ask questions of players. Things got a little uneasy when the topic turned to head trauma, and safety Jamal Adams, the Jets’ first-round pick this year, said if he had to pick a place to die it would be on a football field.Read more...

“I guess if you win both fights,” said Daniel Cormier, “there is no rivalry.”

In March, the Jaguars sent a 2018 seventh-round pick to the Dolphins for Pro-Bowl left tackle Branden Albert. The 32-year-old Albert played in the 2013 and 2015 Pro Bowls with Miami, and he mostly remained productive in 2016, starting 12 games and picking up just three penalties while dealing with a handful of…Read more...

One of the reasons why the Premier League has been so evenly matched in the past few years is that rarely will the biggest teams move their stars anywhere but out of England. If a club has a top-tier player who wants to split town or needs to make the next step up, they’ll try their hardest to ship that player where…Read more...

The Baseball Hall of Fame traditionally airs a “highlight reel” of its inductees at the annual ceremony before the newly enshrined deliver an address to those in attendance. We found yesterday’s tribute film to former commissioner Bud Selig to be a bit lacking, so we produced a more honest version.Read more...

It’s trade deadline day, and the stove is simmering.

In a memorandum of understanding dated 2016, the NFL and the National District Attorneys Association—a professional group that represents and lobbies on behalf of the nation’s 2,500 or so district attorneys—outlined an “information sharing partnership” covering investigations into “alleged criminal acts involving NFL…Read more...

Welcome to NeyWatch, a series in which we catch up with the daily, often contradictory updates on the hottest story of the summer.Read more...

The Big3 league said it is investigating Allen Iverson’s absence after the Hall of Famer failed to show up for a game in Dallas on Sunday.Read more...

Last Thursday, the Toronto Blue Jays completed a sweep of the Oakland A’s when Steve Pearce hit a grand slam in the bottom of the 10th for an 8-4 win. It was a great moment for Pearce!Read more...

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Adrian Beltre is a delight. (Unless you touch his head, in which case he will kill you.) That extended to his post-game press conference after becoming the 31st player ever to reach 3,000 hits.

There’s debate over whether the ref waited too long to stop the fight in Saturday’s light heavyweight championship bout between Jon Jones and Daniel Cormier, but maybe the real controversy should be over why a clearly concussed and struggling Cormier wasn’t allowed to immediately leave the octagon after that.Read more...

Professional moron Heath Evans joined Elliot Harrison yesterday during live training camp coverage on NFL Network to discuss and predict this year’s Seattle Seahawks schedule—but at no point did either of them realize that the results they were predicting already happened.Read more...

Julie Ertz’s 89th-minute goal capped a massive late comeback for the U.S. women’s national team as they beat Brazil 4-3 in a Tournament of Nations match that saw them down 3-1 with less than ten minutes remaining.Read more...

Danilo Gallinari, newly of the Los Angeles Clippers, has reportedly broken his hand after landing a looping right hand in a fight during an exhibition game today:Read more...

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The Chris Christie humiliation spiral continued today with the fully-inflated Violet Beauregarde-looking New Jersey governor getting right into the face of a Cubs fan at today’s Cubs-Brewers game in Milwaukee:Read more...

Adrián Beltré today became just the 31st player in Major League Baseball history to record 3,000 hits, smoking a 3-0 fastball from Orioles starter Wade Miley into left field for a stand up double.Read more...

Hey, look at this ball boy laying out to make the sliding stop on a foul ball in today’s Brewers-Cubs tilt:Read more...

Two NFL players are involved in a lawsuit stemming from a March incident involving declined credit cards and a $10,000 bill racked up in a single evening at a Hollywood nightclub, according to a TMZ report.Read more...

After a long dry spell, motodoping is finally back. According to a report from Italian paper La Gazzetta dello Sport, a 53-year-old masters rider aroused suspicion during a race in Brescia yesterday when he was hauling ass upwards of 30 miles per hour. That’s, uh, pretty impressive for a rider in their 50s, and…Read more...

A combination cruise/LAN party set to sail on Oct. 20 has been put on hiatus for the time being, as organizer Gamer Tech Events searches to replace an investor who pulled out in May.Read more...

Just days after it happened in the Inter Milan-Chelsea match, another astonishing own goal golazo happened today in Austria as Eibar’s José Ángel Valdés hammered home what proved to be the only goal of his side’s friendly against Schalke—one that looked so impressively like a purposeful shot that the chyron operator…Read more...

One thing Lorenzo Cain understands that big mashing goons like Aaron Judge and Bryce Harper still haven’t mastered with all their grotesque and gratuitous moonshots is the precision and understated majesty of a the, umm, short ball:Read more...

Here is a short video of Steph Curry doing a funny-looking pantomime of what looks like someone working out:Read more...

Aaron Judge is a dong-mashing hero whose feats of dinger-smokage have come to define the 2017 baseball season, and also a Yankee, and so authentic Aaron Judge memorabilia is already sort of a big deal. Hop on ebay and you will find hundreds of listings: weird things like “signed baseball golf ball in display case,”…Read more...

Jon Jones reclaimed the UFC light heavyweight title with a third-round TKO over rival Daniel Cormier in one of the promotion’s most anticipated matchups ever.