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Hey, remember back in 1990 when you were super-stoked to watch American John Harkes be a non-factor for non-factor Sheffield Wednesday? He was the first American to play in the English Premier League and we were all amazed. Don’t pretend you weren’t.

The country is slowly turning over a new leaf, one that will hopefully lead to a racially conscious society that uncovers stories like Black Wall Street and the Rosewood Massacre, that depict the sad fate many Black Americans experienced simply for creating their own wealth. It remains important that these stories be…Read more...

NASCAR president Steve Phelps spoke to the media for the second time in just three days to address the issue that has taken all the air out of the announcement that the racing giant was banning the Confederate flag from NASCAR property: The noose found on NASCAR property.Read more...

I was around 6 years old when my parents bought me my first basketball magazine.

We all realize all this is completely insane, right?

Now might be a good time to think about the future of the Hall of Fame game.Read more...

Much like the football Hall of Fame, just about anyone gets into the Hockey Hall of Fame. Play in the league long enough, be kind to the writers, and gain any sort of rep for grit or toughness, and you’ll probably get in. Which cheapens the entry of those who are truly generational players. Those who deserve the…Read more...

NASCAR thinks Black people are stupid.

“Ugh. Not cool, dude.”Read more...

Looks like it’s back to the shadows for Daniel Kinahan.

At a time when evangelical Christians have no problem standing behind a president who violates every tenet the church supposedly stands for, holding up a rapist like Ben Roethlisberger as a symbol of redemption wouldn’t take much more effort than a sneeze. Throw in as part of your “recovery story” the customary…Read more...

On September 10, with both of my kids in school for the full day for the first time, I went to South Beach on Staten Island to run, really run, for the first time in years. I’d tried to take up running a few times before — in college, in my 20s, earlier in my 30s — but always gave up pretty quickly, due to a mix of…Read more...

After a tumultuous couple of days, Bubba Wallace made the media rounds Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, after the FBI reported that the noose found in his garage stall Sunday had been there for as far back as October and therefore was not a hate crime directed at the only Black driver in NASCAR’s top tier.Read more...

Another bubble is about to burst in the sports world and no, this one’s not in Florida.

Here’s hoping that you enjoyed that 35 minutes of feeling good about baseball on Tuesday night.

One of the classic lines from “Rounders,” the definitive poker movie, is “If you can’t spot the sucker at the table in the first half-hour, then you are the sucker.”

Good news everyone! The noose found in Bubba Wallace’s garage stall at Talladega Raceway had been there for months, not days!

MLB and its players finally came to an agreement this afternoon, ending one of the more tedious and frustrating processes in modern sports history.

You hear that?

Two of the biggest names in sports are coming together to help fight one of this country’s biggest battles.

The WNBA has put it out on Main Street: This is the time. Their words match their actions. Three of the WNBA’s biggest stars, Imani McGee-Stafford, Natasha Cloud and Renee Montgomery will not be competing in the WNBA’s 22-game hoop bubble season next month in Bradenton, Fla, citing this being the time to dive fully…Read more...

The Detroit Lions and Roger Goodell have come down with the latest cases, as they’re celebrating Martha Ford, who is stepping down as the franchise’s principal owner, a position she’s held since 2014, while her daughter, Sheila Ford Hamp, will take over.

In Lucifer’s dream social media booking, last night saw a Twitter fight between Trevor Bauer — what would happen if that meme of a cartoon man staring at a butterfly came to life — and Aubrey Huff, a human tobacco spit cup. For most of the country it took place in the middle of the night, when sadly, the Men In Black…Read more...

As American team sports look to come back, athletes are starting to resist calls to play amidst a global pandemic.Read more...

Nestle has participated in modern slavery, deforestation, and animal abuse. The international food conglomerate is one of the world’s biggest plastic polluters, raids public water supplies, and works hand in glove with dictators.Read more...

While baseball haggles over finances and hockey tries to figure out where to place its bubbles, the concept of sports returning gets shakier every day. With spikes in Texas, Florida, Arizona, and may other states, more and more reports of players losing their enthusiasm for a return have popped up. Especially when it…Read more...

Before the start of Monday’s rescheduled Geico 500 at Talladega, NASCAR athletes and personnel gathered to push Bubba Wallace’s race car to the front of pit row. The gesture was a show of solidarity after yesterday’s hate crime.

A tour shutdown hasn’t kept Novak Djokovic from espousing his Tom Brady-brained thoughts on health and the coronavirus. This past weekend allowed him to pull off his pandemic coupe-de-grace, at least so far.

Considering where professional wrestling has come from, what it used to be, and what it still is much of the time, it’s no surprise that there is a wave of accusations of sexual assault and domestic abuse levied at wrestlers at all levels. And yet the sheer scope of what took place this past weekend with the …Read more...

White America, I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Black people don’t really rock with Pat Tillman like that.

If you haven’t noticed, this country is changing by the day.

The Final Four in our Deadspin Arena Anthem Death Match will, indeed, be a battle of the titans. Every single one-seed advanced — not terribly surprising given how iconic and thumping each of these monsters of rock is in its own right. I threw the kitchen sink at them — contenders old and new; rock, rap, dance,…Read more...

As Major League Baseball and its players continue to collectively unholster a giant middle finger at all of us, another country has uncorked action on the diamond.Read more...

A noose was found in the garage stall of NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace at the Talladega Superspeedway in Lincoln, Alabama, on Sunday, the racing giant announced.

Overpromising and under-delivering is a way that you could describe Donald Trump’s entire existence, let alone his presidency.

Some of the best sporting moments come from a father and his child. And no, we’re not talking about your backyard cornhole (It’s called bags! - Julie DiCaro ) game with dad. For many athletes, their father is a coach, mentor, and friend. For Father’s Day, Deadspin compiled a list of 10 of our favorite father-child…Read more...

Dan Carcillo, along with former Western Hockey League player Garrett Taylor, has filed a class-action lawsuit against the Canadian Hockey League that amounts to a smorgasbord of accusations to turn your stomach. Some of the worst include younger players being violated with hockey sticks, being forced to do cocaine or…Read more...

Lexy Gavin played in the last live poker tournament in America before coronavirus shut everything down.

Do you hear that sound, Florida?Read more...

Andrew Cuomo is one of those guys who calls it “the MLB.”Read more...

Boston Celtics center Enes Kanter and his family are another example of how using your voice can create a change.

It’s not a surprise that Jo Adell noticed the coded language of baseball. It’s a sign of the times that a 21-year-old prospect, in a sport where the young traditionally have been seen and not heard, would feel comfortable voicing that it’s a problem. It’s definitely a new frontier for Major League Baseball to amplify…Read more...

Earth to Phil Mushnick: Professional athletes sometimes say the F word.

This story has been updated with reports on Auston Matthews and ClemsonRead more...

“Tunnel vision” is how 26-year-old Brehanna Daniels describes her last four years working inside NASCAR as its first black woman tire changer.Read more...

Allegiance to the Confederate flag is starting to become costly.

Atlanta Dream guard Renee Montgomery woke up nervous. She was about to send a tweet that would put her in the national spotlight and change the course of her athletic career.

It’ll be everyone into the pool at the weekend, as Serie A returns to the soccer scene as the last of the major European leagues to play behind closed doors. It’ll come back with a very tight title race, but one possible champion that would lead to a lot of collar-tugging around the world. The other contender is…Read more...

With no live World Series of Poker, PokerGO has had to dip back into the vaults for card content. Under the category of “it’s so old you probably don’t remember it,” is Thursday’s offering of 2004 WSOP Main Event coverage.Read more...

Most apologies are fake.Read more...