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Major League Baseball took until Wednesday to finally join the parade of somber plain-text public relations statements acknowledging that racism is, in fact, bad.

The murder of George Floyd has prompted athletes across the world to take part in protests and create powerful moments of both pain and strength.

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Checking the standings on Memorial Day has been a tradition for generations. Being an early barometer of baseball’s playoff picture, it’s widely considered the first unofficial checkpoint of the season.

It seems to be an affliction within any baseball writer above a certain age that baseball still has a special place in American culture or society. While media from all sports have tried to claim, at various times, that the sport they cover returning to action would “help” the country, it is far more pervasive among…Read more...

West Bromwich Albion was in fourth place in the Championship, the second tier of English soccer, and with the season there set to resume later this month, they’ll be doing all they can down the stretch to earn promotion back to the Premier League, where they were relegated from last year.

NCAA national champion Arike Ogunbowale released a pertinent thread of tweets yesterday instructing young athletes to pay attention to which coaches are remaining silent — or hiding behind word soups — on the topic of police brutality against black Americans.Read more...

“To my white brothers, I love you. Every race here, I love you,” Stephen Jackson told a Minneapolis crowd. “But it comes to a point now where if you love me and you’re not standing on the side of me, then your love don’t mean shit.”

Give James Dolan this much: Sports teams aren’t qualified to speak out on what’s going on right now. Most of the team and league statements we’ve seen have been verbal diarrhea, not to mention how Dolan himself is fresh off going full Karen on Charles Oakley.Read more...

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The symbol above his words resembles three Ku Klux Klan hoods.Read more...

There may have been a moment where baseball fans hoped that MLB owners wouldn’t use the cover of national chaos to act like the same dickheads they have always been. “Blind hope” would probably be the better term. That maybe with not as many, or no one, watching, the owners could back off their hardline stances…Read more...

Former Major Leaguer and two time NL MVP, Dale Murphy, said his son, Tyson, was shot in the eye with a rubber bullet peacefully protesting the death of George Floyd at a demonstration Sunday in Denver, Colorado.

Chris Beaty, a former Indiana University football player, was shot and killed over the weekend in Indianapolis as demonstrations in response to the murder of George Floyd became violent.Read more...

The first week of the Bundesliga’s return, the production on Fox Sports carried the action as is. Viewers heard every kick of the ball, the instructions shouted from the bench and between players, the rustling of the net as the ball hit it. It was surely a jarring experience, at once both a reminder of how much had…Read more...

In life, there are consequences and repercussions.

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Shame on Russell Wilson.

All my life I have lived inside a bubble wrapped in white privilege. I don’t wear it as a badge of honor; it is just reality. This reality was never clearer than my experience during the George Floyd protests in New York City on Saturday.

Sparked by the death of George Floyd, Mark Newhouse joined protesters in San Jose on Saturday who were demanding an end to police brutality. They were met with the same response as other protests nationwide: More police brutality.Read more...

There have been protests across the world today against police brutality to echo those in this country the past couple of days and players in the German Bundesliga have taken up the cause as well over the weekend. Three players had public displays of protest in matches.Read more...

For years and years, those within the NHL offices have wanted to get rid of fighting. It’s been a given that fighting and the mayhem connected to it, as limited as it’s become recently, is one of the many factors that has kept hockey from a larger audience. It’s also pretty much agreed that it has no effect on the…Read more...

On Thursday, Royce White sent a text message to a few athletes and friends from Minneapolis to gather folks for a peaceful demonstration against the killing of George Floyd. The next day, a few friends turned into a few thousand people in the streets, with White leading demonstrators from downtown Minneapolis to…Read more...

After Texans wide receiver Kenny Stills read NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s statement yesterday on the death of George Floyd, he could only muster up three words:Read more...

People are so predictable. Especially the fake ones.

The Deadspin Sports Quarantine Nintendo Club took a break last week because the laptop that was being used to play old Nintendo games suffered a catastrophic injury that rendered its screen completely useless.Read more...

Colin Kaepernick was right.

I grew up in Brooklyn, two-to-four stops away from where Barclays Center is now, depending which train you take. One of my first media experiences was as an intern at Brooklyn Community Access Television, whose offices were four blocks away from the eventual site of the arena. One of my favorite events of any year is…Read more...

In the past 48 hours, America has been forced to examine itself, the 400-year legacy of slavery, and the way systemic racism is woven into the fabric of our country and our communities. It’s obvious that something is very, very wrong when watching a police officer kneel on a man’s neck until he dies. It’s easy, in…Read more...

On Thursday night, after being released by the New York Mets along with many other minor leaguers, pitcher Andrew Church took to social media, ripping the team for treatment he described as “toxic” and hurling shots over the team’s handling of Tim Tebow.

Former NBA player Stephen Jackson called for the arrests and convictions of all four officers involved in the murder of George Floyd.

White athletes — both collegiate and professional — have finally used their voice to speak out against racism the past few days in light of George Floyd’s death at the hands of Minneapolis police.

Donald Trump’s latest authoritarian outburst was a Friday morning tweet that Twitter flagged as violating the platform’s rules “about glorifying violence. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible.”

Welcome to the Second Round of the Deadspin Arena Anthem Death Match! Plenty of upsets, plenty of non-surprises and plenty of hurt feelings in Round One, to be sure. What will get now with our 32 combatants, all of whom have already proven their mettle in vanquishing a worthy opponent. The races should tighten up a…Read more...

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In give-it-a-name fashion, both the Premier League In England and Italy’s Serie A announced today the dates they will resume. The Premier League will restart on June 17, behind closed doors (no fans), with two matches and then a full-slate the following weekend. Serie A will return on June 20.

It took nine days, but the NHL finally responded to Akim Aliu’s devastating story in the Players’ Tribune on May 19, detailing the racist attacks he had suffered at the hands of teammates and coaches in his climb from prospect to pro.

The devastating video of the death of George Floyd at the hands of former Minneapolis police officers has left many in the sports community outraged.Read more...

One would think that in the same week the county that houses Chattanooga, Tennessee was named as one of the five-fastest-growing hot spots for coronavirus in the nation, Tennessee’s state Legislature might have more important things to do than weigh transphobic legislation.Read more...

We get it, sports channels have to fill airtime. Networks are replaying old games, rereleasing old productions, and giving us the latest updates on the sports world in a pandemic.Read more...

This country has a problem.

When the MLB owners introduced their “sliding scale” plan to limit players’ salaries, their plan was obvious. With the highest-paid players giving up the largest percentage of their salaries and the lowest-paid the lowest, the owners were clearly hoping that they could turn the players on each other based on class.…Read more...

The coronavirus pandemic is a global event, and that extends to islands. In the Dominican Republic, there have been 15,723 confirmed cases of COVID-19 as of Thursday, a rate of 1,518 per million people, well under the United States’ total rate of 5,267 per million, but higher than several states and on par with…Read more...

The world has seen the gut-wrenching killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin as his colleagues refused to stop a murder in progress.Read more...

Today, The NWSL announced their “2020 Challenge Cup,” which follows the tournament guidelines we outlined last week.Read more...

One of the footnotes in the NHL’s release of its playing plan yesterday is that, in declaring the regular season over, Alex Ovechkin will once again win the Rocket Richard Trophy for most goals in the season. He’ll split it with David Pastrnak as they both potted 48 goals, though Ovechkin did it in two fewer games. If…Read more...

Jeremy Roenick tried. He really did.

Renowned poker pro “Jungleman” Daniel Cates ’fessed up to an online cheating scandal that surfaced over the weekend, one which multimillionaire Bill Perkins claimed on Twitter would “make the Mike Postle (scandal) look like a church service.”Read more...

Lance Armstrong is a dick.Read more...

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