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Sergio Ramos might be the biggest villain in European soccer, but part of the reason he is that is he’s already won, and you know it. He’s got two European Championship medals, a World Cup, a murder of Champions League trophies, a handful of La Liga titles, and will go down as one of, if not the, best defenders in…Read more...

Tom Brady is having some kind of a rough couple of weeks.Read more...

This week on the Sunday Scaries, we’ve got the greatest hits featuring: the NFC East, the Jacksonville Jaguars and a deceptively good Chargers team? We’ll also cover an old NFL rivalry that is now dead.

Scotland’s men’s soccer team hasn’t been to a major tournament since the 1998 World Cup, where they finished last in group play. But that changed on Friday, when a penalty shootout win over Serbia secured a berth for Euro 2020, the continental championship that will be played next year as a result of this summer’s…Read more...

Sixers President Chris Heck placed a Joel Embiid-sized 17 sneaker in his mouth when he was talking up the Sixers new uniforms with the Uni Watch website.

Penn State was No. 7 in the preseason AP college football poll. That is not where the Nittany Lions will finish the year.Read more...

We are doomed as a society. There is no turning back. There is no shelter to run and hide. (Well, there is — it’s called your house — but seemingly millions of folks don’t want to stay there.) If anything, this pandemic has shown us that some people simply will not believe in science no matter what.Read more...

We’ve all seen it a thousand times: a baseball player tries to field a ball, but can’t catch it and it goes rolling on the outfield grass.Read more...

Earl Thomas is now a man without a job … or a wife.Read more...

That’s the comparison being drawn now, as CNN’s Jim Acosta reported Friday on a Trump adviser noting that the end of the president’s reign could parallel the Bad Boys walking off the court and refusing to shake hands with Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls, who that year started the first of their two three-peats.

Kim Ng is going to be the face of the Marlins as the team’s new GM. She will be the point person for the club with agents, players, the media, other general managers and owners. With each interaction, she will be a reminder that excellence isn’t tied to gender.Read more...

Marjorie Taylor Greene, the QAnon lunatic who is on her way to Congress with a mutual admiration for Atlanta Dream co-owner and racist coup d’etat enthusiast Kelly Loeffler, already is showing just what a disaster she is going to be for everyone who comes within six feet of her.Read more...

Just like records are meant to be broken, walls placed around marginalized people will also come tumbling down.Read more...

I can’t believe I’m typing this, but the people of Alabama elected a college football coach as their next senator, Tommy Tuberville.Read more...

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While the NL Cy Young conjured thoughts about some of the things that are wrong with baseball (the warping of the game played by galactic assholes), there’s no reason to not feel good about both MVPs named yesterday.

There are ballers and then there are the big ballers.

On Wednesday, Trevor Bauer became the first Cincinnati Reds pitcher ever to win a Cy Young Award. That leaves only three teams in Major League Baseball that have never had one of their pitchers receive that honor, matching the three teams that have never had an MVP.Read more...

The 16th hole is always the one to watch at Augusta. This year, it’s already given us some gems.

Hear me out.Read more...

In the midst of tragedy, Titans wide receiver Corey Davis will suit up and honor his late brother Thursday night against the Indianapolis Colts.Read more...

The Oregon Highway Division had an extremely non-highway problem to deal with 50 years ago. When a dead sperm whale washed up on the beach near Florence, nobody quite knew what to do about it, but it was starting to stink. So, the Highway Division was called in, and on November 12, 1970, they put their solution into…Read more...

As expected, Trevor Bauer claimed the National League Cy Young Award last night, which has launched a raging river of horseshit like this.

With only a few weeks before NBA training camps begin, and less than two months from a Dec. 22 start date, all of the league’s head coaching vacancies have been officially filled.

Bengals’ quarterback Joe Burrow admitted publicly that he is not the one to play with when it comes to being scared.

The Detroit Lions have played a home game on Thanksgiving Day every year since 1934.

In a move that defies common sense as the country sets all-time highs for daily COVID-19 infections, the Oklahoma City Thunder will allow fans in their indoor arena for the NBA season ... which starts next month.

We may be on the brink of a civil war, or seeing every structure of the country crumble, and even if we avoid those fates there’s still the matter of an out of control pandemic killing thousands by the day and showing no signs of stopping and we’re still months away from anyone showing any gumption to do anything…Read more...

The Houston Texans have been a mess the past few years, but recently the bandages have been ripped off: There is no hiding the ugliness anymore.Read more...

You may feel inundated with stories of climbers accomplishing never-before-done feats at Yosemite’s El Capitan. You’ve seen “Free Solo” win an Oscar for Alex Hannold’s ropeless ascent of the Freerider route. There was “The Dawn Wall,” which tracked Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson’s free-climb of the route of the…Read more...

There is turmoil in Houston.

Among the wackiest sports nuggets of 2020 will be the Masters, an April tradition being played in November. Add to the mix that Tiger Woods is the defending champion, and it’s downright surreal that it’s been 19 months since we last saw Magnolia Lane (not to mention Woods’ sushi/fajita Masters Club dinner combo…Read more...

The “F” in NFL stands for fraud.

In case you were wondering, Deadspin’s most hated sports owner, Kelly Loeffler, is indeed participating in Donald Trump’s attempted coup d’etat.

When the formation of AEW was announced nearly two years ago, one of the things that had a large portion of wrestling fans most excited was the idea of Kenny Omega “coming home.” Not home home, as we’re not all moving to Manitoba, but back to North American shores full-time. Omega had wrestled sporadically with Ring…Read more...

It’s pointless to bemoan the NFL not pausing or just outright stopping its season. There’s too much money, they’re too far into it, they’d never admit a mistake, we know all the reasons. It certainly seems like the NFL is admitting that it’s going to get worse before it gets better, as yesterday they put in a…Read more...

It’s awards season in Major League Baseball, and one of the newer prizes on the docket is the All-MLB team, which debuted last year, decided by a fan vote and a panel of media members and baseball luminaries. Who should be make this team from the this shortened 60-game season?

Tony La Russa is a “Hall of Famer baseball person.”Read more...

You might as well give Jon Rahm a green jacket now, because how is this even possible?

Mike Tomlin is one of the best coaches in NFL history. But instead of the attention being on him, as usual, people are more concerned with his team.

In the aftermath of the revelation that Jerry Reinsdorf knowingly hired Tony La Russa the day after the latter was charged with a second DUI, a lot of people not as familiar with Reinsdorf’s ways are wondering how such a thing could happen. You have to understand that Reinsdorf works in his own unique way.Read more...

LSU wide receiver Koy Moore says he was “violated numerous times” during an incident with Baton Rouge Police on Saturday night.

Now that things are starting to unwind from the 2020 presidential election, our attention to the pressing matters confronting this country can’t waver.Read more...

No matter how crappy the Patriots are this season, after a 30-27 win during Monday Night Football, Bill Belichick will always have the Jets.

I bet you thought it couldn’t get worse for the White Sox. A lot has happened over the past couple of weeks, and more is assuredly going to happen in the weeks to come, so maybe a refresher is necessary.Read more...

Back in February, new Chicago White Sox manager Tony La Russa was arrested for suspicion of driving under the influence in Phoenix, according to ESPN, his car allegedly smoking after hitting a curb.

College sports are having a day.Read more...

The saga of Vince McMahon is certainly a multifaceted one. Perhaps the most curious, and most hilarious, is his unquenchable thirst to be seen as more than just a wrestling promoter, which in some circles is in the same folder as being a carny. Maybe he gets made fun of at his billionaire parties for not showing up in…Read more...

It’s time once again to highlight the teams stinking up the joint every single week.

It’s a 2020 tradition unlike any other: A positive test.Read more...