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With 25 COVID-19 cases, just cancel the Canucks' season already
The news out of Vancouver isn’t getting any better.Read more...
Track coach allegedly stole ‘compromising photos’ from athletes, used pix to scam them out of more
Steve Waithe, a former assistant track and field coach at Tennessee and Northeastern, was arrested Wednesday in Chicago on federal charges of cyberstalking and wire fraud, stemming from an alleged scheme that’s equal parts stupid and gross.
This week in The Ladies' Room: Kate Scott
Welcome to the Ladies Room - A Deadspin Sports Podcast.
Of course the PGA won’t stand against Georgia by moving the Masters
And then there’s the PGA.Read more...
The U.S. should boycott the Beijing Olympics because it’s the Olympics
No one seriously expects the U.S., or any of its allies, to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.Read more...
More evidence that umpire Angel Hernandez is the worst at his job in America
Hey, let’s watch Angel Hernandez suck at his job! Again.Read more...
The Falcons should think long and hard before passing on Justin Fields
The Atlanta Cockatoos need to be careful about trading the number four pick in this year’s NFL draft.
Stanford/Arizona title game hauls in largest audience since 2014, continuing banner year for women’s sports’ ratings
In a year that’s seen dwindling viewership across men’s sports, women’s sports seem to be hitting new highs.
Terrace Marshall Jr.’s family connection with Joe Delaney, the Chiefs running back who died a hero
LSU has been churning out wide receiver talent over the last couple seasons, none more notably than last year’s should-have-been Offensive Rookie of the Year and Vikings phenom Justin Jefferson. This year, the NFL, its scouting personnel, and everyone who gets paid to share their opinions are seemingly all in love…Read more...
Rougned Odor must shave glorious beard thanks to Yankees’ dumb-ass facial hair policy
Because he’s been traded to the New York Yankees, Rougned Odor has to adopt the identity of a “clean-cut” American baseball player due to a policy that’s 48 years old.
ETSU players believe their white coach got fired because he supported their kneeling. Then the school hired a Black coach. Wait, what?
On Monday, while the college basketball world was preparing for the national championship game between Gonzaga and Baylor, East Tennessee State was busy naming its first Black men’s basketball coach.Read more...
SEE IT! HS punter picks up botched snap, ruins defenders, cruises for 55-yard TD
Yes, special teams players are people too. Except this one looks like he should be playing in the backfield. So it’s no surprise that Nicho Domine, the high school punter featured in this video, lists himself as a defensive back and wide receiver on his Twitter page. The kid also says he’ll try to walk on to the…Read more...
In the end, Darnold, not the Jets, will have figured it out
The New York Jets won’t be, can’t be, right about this in the end.Read more...
It was another banner day for racism in European soccer
There are few problems that La Liga can’t make worse. They’re giving the world a prime example of that in the past couple days.
Aaron Rodgers is absolutely nailing it as Jeopardy! guest host (yes, even with the FG zinger)
Aaron Rodgers recently said that hosting Jeopardy! full-time would be a “dream job,” and it’s one that now seems within reach.Read more...
Jacob deGrom was excellent, again, before the Mets Mets’d it all up
“Ughhhhhhhhhh.”
WTF are these hideous pee-yellow Red Sox/Nike cash-grab alternate jerseys?
It was bad enough when the Red Sox rolled out green alternate jerseys, but at least those had some meaning to them. The Sox have worn green to honor Red Auerbach after his death, again to celebrate the Celtics beating the Lakers in the NBA Finals, and then once more for Earth Day in 2009. They looked stupid, but there…Read more...
Paul Pierce getting fired on his day off is hilarious, but should he have?
When I saw the news that Paul Pierce got fired from ESPN, I and many others had this initial reaction:
Hey Trump, we boycotted you, we're not boycotting baseball
It’s Trash Talking Tuesday, and today I’m trashing former President Donald Trump for asking fans to boycott MLB.
Mark Few and Gonzaga choked, and you shouldn’t be surprised
Gonzaga choked, and it’s Mark Few’s burden to carry.
Miracle on Ice hero Mark Pavelich’s suicide is why it's unacceptable that the NHL does little to end hits to the head
When I get mad about the lame-ass suspensions and fines the NHL hands out for hits to the head, this is why.
Fernando Tatis writhing in pain has ruined everything
This is what happens when you believe in something good:Read more...
With Jets trading Sam Darnold, Zach Wilson should be scared to death
If there were any questions about if the Jets were all in on Zach Wilson, they got answered on Monday.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott boycotts first pitch at Rangers’ packed home opener over MLB pulling ASG out of Georgia
The progressive heroes or “woke” decision-makers of the MLB (lol) made an uncharacteristically bold choice to strip Georgia of the 2021 All-Star Game. It’s a move that now plays into the hands of political opportunists like Texas Governor Greg Abbott.
Please don’t be an illusion, Daryl Dike
It’s been a few weeks of conflicting emotions for USMNT fans. Which I suppose is a slight improvement on just total dread, sorrow, and Cure makeup, the usual state in which we find ourselves. Take our victories where we can find them, I guess.
After another sensational two weeks, the NCAA women’s tournament broadcast package needs to level up
When people talk about investing more resources into the women’s game, it goes far beyond any monetary value.
Alex Rodriguez and ESPN’s Sunday Night Baseball are Can’t Stomach TV
Shohei Ohtani’s remarkable mound/plate performance last night helped mask what otherwise was a turgid, if not torturous, ESPN broadcast. The network’s Sunday Night Baseball show has been a bane to fans for pretty much its entire existence, spawning the one site that’s basically responsible for all the sites like this…Read more...
Rebecca Welch becomes first woman to ref English Football League match
When Rebecca Welch sounded the opening whistle during today’s Harrogate Town and Port Vale tilt, she became the first woman to referee an English Football League game.Read more...
Vaccine passports could be the ticket back to full stadiums
Ah, baseball’s opening weekend, fans in the stands and the Nationals sidelined by the coronavirus.Read more...
Shohei Ohtani’s performance last night was something to marvel
I’ve written about Shohei Ohtani before in this space. About how he almost certainly can’t be all that he teases, and the Angels are losing out on all he can be as a hitter or a pitcher by allowing him to be both.Read more...
Your guide to the most interesting MLB walk-up music, then and now
You can tell a lot about a person by what music they listen to.
Bayern Munich did that thing again
It was at the same point last season, though not in the calendar thanks to the pandemic, that this happened. Less than 10 games left in the season, Bayern Munich facing an away date against their closest rival and looking … well, vulnerable is too strong a word. Less godly, let’s say. The chasing team, in this case RB…Read more...
Carter Hart looks good in return, but the Flyers still suck
Carter Hart made his return to the net after an eight-game “reset” for the Philadelphia Flyers on Saturday, and no, let’s not go with any rising from the dead analogies, but he was looked to as the savior of the franchise.
Charles Barkley thinks politicians, not hateful white people, are the reason racism succeeds
Charles Barkley is trying his best to be the next Jason Whitlock — the overweight and jovial Black man with a larger-than-life personality, whom you can always count on to say something to make white Americans feel good about themselves while demonizing and belittling his own people.
UCLA vs. Gonzaga might have been the best college game ever played
That was the best college basketball game I have ever seen in my lifetime.Read more...
'Bama fan’s COVID-19 related death following Men’s March Madness visit prompts Indiana health investigation
Luke Ratliff was an Alabama student and men’s basketball superfan known around campus as “Fluffopotamus.” Last week, he made the trip to Indianapolis to watch the Tide in the Sweet 16. Ratliff was in Butler’s Hinkle Fieldhouse on Sunday for the game. After UCLA pulled off the upset that night, he returned to…Read more...
Jalen Suggs is eternal
Bruh…
Vancouver Canucks in full-blown COVID crisis with more than 20 players, coaches on protocol list
UPDATE (4/4/21, 12:24 E.T.): Initial reports of 14 positive tests within the Canucks organization have swelled to more than 20 confirmed infections among the team’s roster and coaching staff, according to TSN’s Darren Dredger:Read more...
Jalen Suggs turned a ho-hum NCAA Tournament into one for the ages
The NCAA men’s basketball tournament hasn’t really been all that exciting this year. Sure, there have been upsets, and a handful of close games, but particularly in a year without Duke and Kentucky in the field at all, and several other traditional powers in the doldrums, not to mention the whole tournament being just…Read more...
Ty Buttrey’s heart wasn’t in it, so he walked away — and good for him
Optioned to the minors by the Angels last week, a few days before his 28th birthday, Ty Buttrey decided that he was done with baseball. He’d accomplished his goal to “prove to every motherf***** who didn’t believe in me and doubted my ability to become an MLB player, that I could do it.”Read more...
Could ‘Coors Cat’ find itself going from the alley to the front office?
Rockies fans have been looking for something to be excited about since the Nolan Arenado trade, and now they have it.Read more...
MLB umps play Keystone Kops in punishing wrong guy in bench-clearing non-brawl
Nicholas Castellanos was angry about being hit by a pitch from Cardinals right-hander Jake Woodford, so when the Reds’ right fielder came in to score on a Woodford wild pitch, sliding into Woodford in the process, he made his feelings known.Read more...
Grant Hill named director of USA Men’s National Basketball Team
You could go so far as to say Grant Hill was always meant for this.Read more...
SEE IT: New ‘Space Jam’ trailer showcases LeBron, ’toons, and formulaic fun
The trailer for the new Space Jam movie came out on Saturday.Read more...
Thunder, Warriors stinkers further evidence that NBA means ‘Nasty Blowout Again’ this season
The Thunder’s starting lineup on Friday night was Aleksej Pokusevski, Théo Maledon, Moses Brown, Sviatoslav Mykhailiuk, and Isaiah Roby. If none of those names is familiar, don’t worry, they’ve combined for 285 games of NBA experience — 280 before Friday night.Read more...
Francisco (not Frankie) Lindor, Roberto (not Bobby) Clemente, and the unintentional disrespect of Americanizing Latin names
Nicknames are endearing, but they’re not always respectful.Read more...
Once again the Atlanta Baseball Team proves itself a shrieking fraud on caring about Black people
You mean to say that a baseball franchise with a racially insensitive name, which does all it can to harm any argument that their name isn’t just insensitive, but outright racist, by encouraging its fans to do racist chants; which moved out of team’s location name’s urban core and into another county, in order to…Read more...
McDonald lifts Arizona over UConn, will face Stanford in all-PAC-12 Final
Stanford vs. Arizona will be the matchup for the women’s national title, and the Pac-12 will have its first national champion since 1992, when the Cardinal — then, as now, coached by Tara VanDerveer — won its second title.
Which team played the villain role best?
With the Houston Astros now wearing the crown as the most hated team in professional sports — as indicated by the chorus of boos and piercing screams of “CHEATER!” that rang through the Oakland Coliseum (whatever ridiculous name it has today) last night on Opening Day (ahh… welcome back baseball, and welcome back…Read more...
The players we’d most like to see in the Big 3’s new season
According to a report from Chris Haynes of Yahoo Sports, the Big3 is returning after their 2020 cancelation due to COVID.
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