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For most of their fans, watching the Bears in the offseason is a lot like watching Martin Landau’s Bela Lugosi in the lake with the octopus in “Ed Wood.” Not only does he have to thrash about wildly, but he has to additionally do the thrashing about for the inanimate and unwieldy beast he’s wrestling. And almost…Read more...

Will Kevin Durant and the Brooklyn Nets be a rallying cry as the sick and the poor rise up to eat the rich?Read more...

While it surely is a sign of something broken in our society that NBA teams like the Brooklyn Nets and celebrities are able to be tested for coronavirus, even when showing no symptoms, while much of the general public cannot get access to testing, the problem to focus on is much more the latter than the former.

Sometimes it’s less about what is said and more about what is implied.

The global stoppage of sports due to the COVID-19 pandemic has left many feeling the same way: bored.

Ever feel like ranking all 123 primary team logos from across the four major sports leagues? Well, now that we’re all shut-ins and those leagues aren’t playing, it’s a nice way to pass the time in a way that isn’t explicitly worrying about the pandemic or any of the other crises in the world. So, yay for this. And if…Read more...

A BioBidet attachment, memory foam slippers, standing desk, and a Tacklife tire pressure gauge lead off Wednesday’s best deals from across the internet.Read more...

You have to imagine that Vince McMahon has envisioned this scenario for his company at various times in the past. Confined to some bunker, no fans, a feeling of taping shows in secret in accordance with government protocols and away from society. Of course, in Vince’s mind, this would have come when the tree-hugging,…Read more...

Tom Brady has the greatest resume of any quarterback in NFL history and is one of the most successful athletes to play any sport, which is why he has nothing left to gain by playing another snap in the NFL.

(Usual disclaimer that this is galaxies away from the biggest concern of the time. We’re just the class clowns trying to make everyone laugh...or not cry. I aim for just north of crying.)

Tom Brady is no longer a member of the Patriots, and nobody should be happier about that than Patriots fans, who are finally free from having to watch one of the most overrated quarterbacks ever as his long fade into irrelevance begins.Read more...

I’m staring at a bottle of tequila.Read more...

An Amazon Fire HD 8 tablet, Turbotax software, Bellesa Boutique sex toys, a 5TB WD hard drive, and Honest Beauty products highlight Tuesday’s best and brightest deals from across the internet.Read more...

Looking back at the history of pandemics and sports, it was striking to discover that when the Stanley Cup final was called off on the eve of what would have been the deciding game between the Montreal Canadiens of the NHL and the Pacific Coast Hockey Association’s Seattle Metropolitans, the news got all of one…Read more...

It was always pie in the sky that baseball would be able to get back up and running with Opening Day delayed a mere two weeks, which was their original postponement due to the spread of COVID-19. With the CDC saying Sunday it was recommending eight weeks of a ban on events with more than 50 people, it seemed even more…Read more...

When the risks associated with the spread of COVID-19 forced the NBA to suspend the season last Wednesday, it was clear that the majority of the players and executives that occupy the top one percent of American wealth would not be significantly impacted.

When talking about MLS, it always feels necessary to proclaim your position and biases from the outset. Generally, any fight about the structure or workings of the domestic soccer league starts a food-fight of varying grossness, so it’s a good idea to stake out your position clearly so you know which angle to duck the…Read more...

Rick Pitino is human Teflon.Read more...

You might have noticed that there is a lot going on in the world. Even though everything has been cancelled.Read more...

A RAVPower USB-C Charger, an Instant Pot, Vitamix blender, and a Millennium Falcon Funko lead Monday’s biggest sales on the Internet.

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If you read most of the headlines Sunday evening surrounding the NFL players’ vote to approve the controversial collective bargaining agreement, you’d think all was blissful on the league’s labor front.

With the sports world effectively shut down waiting for the coronavirus pandemic to subside, one way to get your fix is to play video games. But what if you’re not into the 2K life because… okay, because you’re washed.

The Ottawa Senators’ Eugene Melnyk isn’t paying his arena employees, but that’s to be expected from the worst owner in North American sports.Read more...

The internet lasts forever.

It’s no secret that the coronavirus has effectively altered sports history.Read more...

It wasn’t quite a Friday night news dump, but coming in the wake of a pandemic and the world’s first mass-sports suspension, it still made for tidy cover for something slimy to slither out the side door without anyone noticing. Last night, after all North American pro sports leagues were suspending games, and soccer…Read more...

Aubrey Huff is an asshole. He says so himself in his Twitter profile. Maybe not with that exact word, but when you declare yourself “Politically incorrect … & support toxic masculinity!” it’s a clear message that a good copy editor could get that down to seven letters.Read more...

Since retaliation has always been allowed whenever one of baseball’s unwritten rules are broken, the Houston Astros should be bracing themselves for whatever punishment opposing teams decide to hand out this season.

An Amazon Fire 7 (Kid’s Edition), Excalibur food dehydrator, Friends complete series, and a PS4 controller charging station ignite Friday’s best deals from around the web.

Flyers Twitter is an odd place. I don’t really mix it up much with any other teams’ timelines, so I’m not sure if they’re all this crazy, but I can confidently say that we have some of the smartest and dumbest people on the planet in our little section of the Twittersphere.Read more...

It was Major League Baseball that got the conversation started about expanding playoffs, and the NFL got on board when it included additional wild-card teams in its proposed collective bargaining agreement. At the time, it seemed for all the world like a stupid cash grab that would dilute the special nature of playoff…Read more...

In light of the Coronavirus pandemic, presidential elections, the suspensions of the NBA and MLB seasons, and NBA players such as Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell contracting the virus, the NFL has likely never been farther from American minds. And rightfully so.

Once is a mistake, twice is a coincidence, three times is a pattern.Read more...

Imagine sitting at a cramped table, for hours at a time, with eight or nine strangers who have traveled from every corner of the world. Some are drinking. Some are eating snacks. Some are coughing, sneezing, picking their nose. It’s a carnival of hands and fingers touching faces and mouths. Intermittently, those same…Read more...

The world is burning. The coronavirus has shut down everything from office buildings to conferences about the coronavirus. Meanwhile, there’s not a package of toilet paper to be found on shelves in 34 states.

As you can see, Deadspin is posting new stories again. Our original plan had been to begin publishing on Monday, March 16, but the news cycle — and the rapidly changing circumstances surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic — wouldn’t wait for such plans. So we are starting a little smaller than we had hoped, but that will…Read more...

In a world where NFL owners are doing all they can to make players disposable, where the name of the game has become to market a few stars but otherwise make sure you’re just rooting for some guys wearing matching pajamas, or names on a fantasy ticker, it’s high time we appreciate J.J. Jansen, L.P. Ladouceur, Don…Read more...

Former NFL tight end Kellen Winslow Jr. accepted a plea deal Monday that spared him from the possibility of a life prison sentence, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.Read more...

How dumbass are you if you are an Olympic athlete and your defense to narcotics trafficking charges is that you thought you were transporting performance-enhancing drugs?Read more...

Just plain awkward.Read more...

The Cleveland Browns were unbelievably bad in their 24-19 loss to the Denver Broncos. Worse than Jets losing to Dolphins bad. Coverage sucked. Play call sucked. Clock management sucked. And not for the first time this season. Or even the second time. With 3:23 remaining on the clock, down five points and facing a 4th…Read more...

The day the worst team in football won its first game of the season, the best one lost its first.Read more...

As Popeyes’ Chicken Sandwich finally makes its eagerly anticipated return to the marketplace this week comes the news that an NFL player is talking up its healing powers.Read more...

Dolphins win. Not a sentence anyone has been able to utter since Week 14 of last season. Not a sentence many expected to be able to say at all this season as the Fins vied to be plain awful.Read more...

The hard streets of New York City’s five boroughs are no place for marathon world records, let alone an attempt at a sub-2-hour marathon that can make it into the official record books.Read more...

Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez, the world’s best-paid boxer, dispatched Sergey Kovalev with an 11th round knockout to take the Russian’s WBO light-heavyweight title in Las Vegas late Saturday evening.

Less than a week after being booed at Game 5 of the World Series in Washington, President Donald Trump got booed at an Ultimate Fighting Championship event in Madison Square Garden in New York. The jeers rang out when he arrived for the mixed martial arts bouts on Saturday with sons Eric and Donald Jr. and a bunch of…Read more...

From ESPN to Fox News and ABC’s News5 Cleveland, reports that a 47-year-old woman who struck and killed the 26-year-old girlfriend of Cleveland Browns’ defensive end Chris Smith in an auto accident on Interstate 90 will not face criminal charges all ducked the question, how come? One native of a city whose police have…Read more...