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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.

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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.

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“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...

2020 was supposed to be the year sports betting exploded. But a pandemic hit, the economy tanked, and major sporting events were canceled across the country.

June 17, 1994 was one of the most eventful days in sports history.Read more...

Imagine being charged with negotiating the relaunch of a multibillion-dollar industry, which employs thousands of workers, in the middle of a pandemic. Things have been very contentious in recent weeks between you and the union representing your most prominent group of employees. Finally, though, you have a productive…Read more...

The Premier League returned to action this afternoon at Villa Park with Aston Villa hosting Sheffield United. While VAR has been riling fans and media alike most of the season, today it was goal-line technology’s turn to provide confusion, mystery, and vitriol.Read more...

Colin Kaepernick could get a chance to make a league roster this season.Read more...

The multiple and concurrent method of competitions in world soccer was always going to be a challenge to restart after the coronavirus shutdown. European competitions, i.e. the Champions League and Europa League, had the added challenge of dealing with multiple restrictions on safety and travel across European…Read more...

Leave it to Nicholas Kyrgios, the bad boy of tennis, to suddenly become the voice of reason.

By now, you’re of course familiar with the Supreme Court’s holding in Bostock v. Clayton County yesterday, which held that LGBTQ people cannot be fired (or be subject to any other adverse employment action) merely for being gay or transgender. It’s worth noting that rarely has the Supreme Court of the United States…Read more...

It’s hard to believe that early on in the Bundesliga season, there was actual mystery as to who would win the title. Maybe that’s partly due to 2020’s jet-fueled, monkey-navigated car crash into the darkest abyss, making September and October seem an archaeological dig ago. But in the fall, each of RB Leipzig,…Read more...

Hard as it may be to believe, what with everyone being stuck inside all the time these days, but summer is just around the corner. With warmer weather comes new opportunities to take your workouts outdoors (as long as you’re doing so safely and with a mask) and there’s no better way to make it happen than to take up…Read more...

NASCAR driver Kyle Weatherman and his team tried to make a statement on Sunday when they debuted a “Blue Lives Matter”-themed car at a race in Homestead, Fla.

A resurgence of COVID-19 could burst the “bubble” for pro sports.

Last month, Brett Favre found himself tied to a scandal in which $1.1 million meant for needy families in Mississippi instead wound up in the bank account of the Hall of Fame quarterback in exchange for one public service announcement and three speeches he never made.

In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court decided today that federal civil rights law protects LBGTQ workers from discrimination.Read more...

Ohio State doesn’t give a…Read more...

Throughout its history, boxing and gangsters have fit together like, well, a fist in a glove.

What last night’s underwhelming (and that’s being kind) and uninspired 30 for 30 on the 1998 Home Run race tried to capture was that baseball would have been in the toilet without it. It’s a narrative that Bud Selig tried to push to do himself credit, then shit all over to also do himself credit, and now everyone is…Read more...

Change isn’t just coming, it’s here. NASCAR will no longer allow displays of the Confederate flag. The NFL is proclaiming that Black Lives Matter. U.S. Soccer repealed its anthem policy.

Jerry Jones loves to talk. He lives for the spotlight. It’s impossible to discuss the Dallas Cowboys without mentioning his name.Read more...

It’s easy to want to pooh-pooh Kyrie Irving.

Last night, in a quite similar fashion to George Harrison’s had-it-ness with Paul McCartney in the Beatles’ final days, the MLBPA told the owners and world that the owners are going to install a season they want anyway, so they might as well get on with it. Not really that much different than George’s, “Okay, well, I…Read more...

You usually celebrate Father’s Day eating lunch at a restaurant, getting the extended family together for a barbeque or traveling for the weekend just to say hi to dad. This Father’s Day will be very different for myriad reasons. Whether or not you’re with dear ol dad, Deadspin has compiled a gift guide that could…Read more...

A deadly disease sweeping the land. Armed thugs in the streets keeping order amid an angry populace. An economy on the verge of collapse. At the helm of this once mighty superpower is a depraved, narcissistic megalomaniac who lacks even the most basic skills of governing. His answer to keep the masses mollified: Bring…Read more...

The Deadspin Sports Quarantine Nintendo Club, so far, has covered hockey, football, baseball, basketball, golf, skiing, soccer, volleyball, and tennis. But this week was a reminder of another sport that I had not yet revisited in 8-bit form.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) announced he would draft legislation in Congress requiring that U.S. Soccer players stand for the national anthem. This is exactly the type of leadership needed in this country, especially since there’s nothing of public interest going on, like a nationwide uprising to end police brutality…Read more...

In between showing the world that only a chosen few can pull off a Panama hat, critiquing his fans’ form, or calling for major changes within his sport, Roger Federer has been recovering/rehabbing from arthroscopic surgery on his right knee. It was the injury that ruined his Australian Open run (with just a little…Read more...

MLB owners have sucked up almost all of the oxygen for those trying to be greedy shits, so you might not have known MLS owners attempted a lot of the same stuff. They went even one step further than their MLB counterparts, threatening to lockout MLS players during a pandemic, which would have had the small side-effect…Read more...