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Since the Big Ten and NCAA began investigating Michigan's culpability in former recruiting analyst Connor Stalions' elaborate sign-stealing operation, the response from Michigan hasn't been to deny the accusations. It's been to deflect by claiming they weren't aware and distract everyone with accusations that...Read more...

Late on Thursday night, race cars will hit the streets of Las Vegas for the first practice session of the 2023 Las Vegas Grand Prix. The race marks Formula 1's return to Vegas for the first time since the 1980s, so as we prepare for lights out in Sin City, we thought it was time to round up everything you need to know...Read more...

There is a reason that professional wrestling has remained popular for decades even though the action is scripted. The business understands that in order to sell a story there has to be a hero and a heel. Cheering is fun, but jeering is cathartic. In team sports, the heel is automatically included like the charger...Read more...

I and many other Chicagoans used to sit in our simple Midwestern homes, huddled by the coal stove or whatever people picture us doing in the winter (it's not that far off, it's just huddled at the bar), and have a good chuckle at how New Yorkers were sentenced to a life with James Dolan. Here was a guy driving two...Read more...

Denver Broncos wide receiver Courtland Sutton has seen enough and is convinced that Russell Wilson is owed an apology nine games into the season. He's so committed to this notion that he posted a Russell Wilson apology form" on his Instagram story, which is now circulating on Twitter.Read more...

Not even a full 72 hours after the Cleveland Browns' biggest win of the 2023 season, expectations that were on the rise have crashed right onto Brownie the Elf's face at midfield of their home stadium.Read more...

Updated Nov. 15, 2023: Ex-Alabama baseball coach Brad Bohannon and his associate Bert Neff Jr. will be banned, pending an appeal, from Ohio sportsbooks due to an alleged inside information scheme involving a Crimson Tide baseball game, according to the Ohio Casino Control Commission.

If you haven't seen it by now, you've either been asleep or in a cave with Aaron Rodgers over the past 14 hours. We had another NBA skirmish Tuesday night, but this time it escalated into an all-out brawl with everybody's favorite Warrior, Draymond Green, in the middle of the mayhem. And, of course, the player he put...Read more...

We've come to the end of our tour of the islands of every MLB team's offseason outlook. We wrap up in the NL West, still the favorite landing place for Shohei Ohtani, as two of the rivals here are going to duke it out to bring him either slightly up the coast or six hours up it. One more time...

Tuesday night's Warriors-Timberwolves rematch was advertised as an In-season Tournament group play match. Instead, a Draymond Green slobberknocker broke out. Early in the first quarter, Klay Thompson and Jaden McDaniels got into a tussle, Rudy Gobert did what happens in 1,000 routine NBA fights, by attempting to...Read more...

Updated Nov. 15, 2023: British YouTubers Josh & Archie tested the conspiracy theory that Hans Niemann could have cheated and used an adult toy" to beat Magnus Carlsen.Read more...

Whenever any discussion of changes the NHL wants to make to its standings system or points system, it has to be remembered that the league has no interest in finding ways to separate the good teams from the bad. The league likes it that very few teams are ever actually under .500 (only 10 of the 32 have records that...Read more...

CHICAGO - You know a game isn't the most exciting when the biggest roar from the crowd in the first half occurs when Magic Johnson is shown on the video board. That was the story for Duke and Michigan State early on, Tuesday night. Kansas and Kentucky fans didn't need the greatest point guard of all time to hype them...Read more...

Word on the street is that the NBA and Netflix could be partnering up on the new In-Season tournament. Maybe Netflix can get fans to care about this seemingly pointless tournament nobody asked for. It sounds like all the risk would be on Netflix while the NBA sits back and soaks up all the publicity and exposure for...Read more...

It's never a good thing when your two superstars are trending on social media after another loss. That has become the norm for Jordan Poole and Kyle Kuzma. Their first run-in with infamy came when Poole lobbed an oop to Kuzma off the backboard while losing by 20. Together they're the Bennifer of pro basketball....Read more...

The Buffalo Bills' championship window feels like it's closing for no other reason than Josh Allen's regression. The team's inexcusable loss to the Denver Broncos on Monday night would lead you to believe that Ken Dorsey was the hangnail that ailed Allen and not the QB's knack for turnovers. That theory will now be...Read more...

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...