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The Braves’ Ronald Acuña Jr. has been raking as of late, hitting .471/.514/1.235 (!) over his last eight games, with eight homers over that time frame. He’s also led off with a homer in each of his last three games against the Marlins. In some players’ Weird Baseball Logic, that means, accordingly, Acuña deserves to…Read more...

Columbus Crew SC, in conjunction with MLS czar Don Garber, has crossed one of the final checkpoints in their plan to move the team to Austin as early as next season. The Austin City Council passed a vote on Wednesday, seven to four, to pave the way for the building of a soccer-specific stadium onto city-owned land in…Read more...

20-year-old Braves slugger Ronald Acuña Jr. is molten hot right now, blasting eight homers in his last eight games and lead-off dongs in each of his last three. If you’re Marlins starter Jose Ureña, facing the Braves tonight, you can either take Acuña’s recent success as an exciting challenge to your own skills, or…Read more...

Big Daddy Kane might not have thought pimping was easy, but back when he wrote that song he hadn’t seen how simple it was for the Columbus Crew’s grease-palmed owner Anthony Precourt to merely raise a hand menacingly at his current john—the city of Columbus—while also whispering of his service’s illicit physical…Read more...

The Fulton County (Georgia) District Attorney released a statement today saying that his office has decided to drop the rape case against Denver Broncos defensive end Adam Gotsis, who was charged back in March, because “the evidence presented does not warrant any further action.”Read more...

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Donny Aaron, the husband and coach of UFC fighter Andrea Lee, received attention in June when an Instagram photo showed the swastika tattoo on his arm. This month, police say he assaulted Lee and is on the run.Read more...

It has been exactly one month since the World Cup ended. This might cause you to believe that it is far too early to engage in any remembering of guys who participated in the tournament, but that would overlook one of the central truths of guy remembering: Any guy can be remembered, at any time.

D.J. Durkin is on administrative leave from his job as Maryland’s head football coach while the school investigates allegations that the toxic culture of his program may have contributed to the death of offensive lineman Jordan McNair. While he waits, Durkin’s former employers are belatedly coming under scrutiny…Read more...

When Portland-based podcaster C.J. McCollum appeared on China Central Television in late July to promote some kind of shoe, he had some choice words about superteams, as seen in a video that is just now making the rounds in American media:

Miami Marlins CEO Derek Jeter apparently feels he can show his face in public again, opening up to Jerry Crasnick for an ESPN feature on the future of the team, and boy, was the author willing to make him comfortable.Read more...

Jaguars cornerback Jalen Ramsey did us all the favor of telling GQ exactly which NFL quarterbacks are bad trash and which are actually good. Ramsey’s takes were entertaining and refreshing on their own, but they have also provided us with another level of entertainment: each maligned quarterback being asked to respond…Read more...

Some people are fans of the Arizona Cardinals. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Arizona Cardinals. This 2018 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here.

Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, No. 14 Oklahoma.

Transport precious cargo while avoiding any Imperial entanglement with this inflatable Millennium Falcon pool float. She may not look like much, but she’s got it where it counts, kid.Read more...

319. That’s the number of discrete advertisements, both online and off, served to me over the course of one Tuesday in July. I know because I counted each and every one.

It’s Madden glitch season! God bless it. The exact same game, every single year, yet somehow always with horrifying and wonderful new misfires.

They say you can’t teach old dogs new tricks. They also say there is always one exception that proves any given rule. I don’t really know what to do with these two chestnuts but they seem relevant to the fact that Andrés Iniesta has moved to Japan and apparently transformed into Lionel Messi.Read more...

The highlight of the preseason so far has been new Browns receiver Jarvis Landry laying into his fellow receivers for being weak little babies who don’t practice enough. Landry’s intensity does not seem to have quieted down since then, judging by this fight he started with cornerback Terrance Mitchell during practice…Read more...

Some people are fans of the Green Bay Packers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Green Bay Packers. This 2018 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here.

GQ has an interview with Jaguars star cornerback and master shit-talker Jalen Ramsey out today, and it will surely be the most entertaining thing you read all day. A good portion of the interview involves Ramsey scrolling through the names of NFL quarterbacks on his phone and telling the interviewer which ones suck…Read more...

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That fan to the right of the top photo? That’s basically me every time a baseball fight breaks out. “Oh! A fight!”Read more...

“He’s the best leadoff hitter I’ve ever seen,” Braves teammate Ender Inciarte said of Ronald Acuña Jr. “He’s the best player I’ve ever seen.” Gushing praise, from a teammate, sure, but counterweigh that bias with the fact that Acuña is still just 20 years old. And at least over the last week, it has been absolutely…Read more...

Class up your sunglasses selection with Amazon’s one-day sale on William Painter and House of Harlow shades. William Painter boasts styles with titanium frames, scratch-resistant polarized lenses, and a lifetime warranty. Plus, a few of the styles have hidden bottle openers on the arms.

So this happened tonight, on FOX Sports South. Watch it endlessly, for it will never stop being hilarious.Read more...

Rick Pitino’s emotional distress lawsuit against Adidas—truly a bold “vehicle for proving that he had nothing to do with Adidas’ outrageous, wrongful, and illegal conspiracy” to put good basketball players onto his basketball team—was dismissed Tuesday by the U.S. District Court judge for the Western District of…Read more...

Next week, YouTuber of suicide forest infamy Logan Paul will step into the ring for his first-ever boxing match against marginally more experienced YouTuber-turned-boxer KSI. The fight will be hilariously bad. So of course, people are already talking about Paul’s promising future as a UFC fighter.

Ben Zobrist was ejected in the ninth inning of the Cubs’ 7–0 home loss to the Brewers Tuesday, for arguing (what else) balls and strikes with home plate umpire Phil Cuzzi. The beef went back a few innings, to when Zobrist took a called third strike in the sixth, and reacted angrily. Zobrist survived the initial…Read more...

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The chief judge of Ingham County Circuit Court denied today a request by defense lawyers for Larry Nassar to have judge Rosemarie Aquilina disqualified from one of the disgraced former doctor’s criminal cases. Nassar’s lawyers had argued that they believed Aquilina’s statements in court showed that she had made up her…Read more...

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Braves outfielder Nick Markakis has built himself a solid, respectable baseball career—one better than 99 percent of guys who ever pick up the ol’ ball and stick. A .290 career hitter with a wRC+ of 111 in 12-and-three-quarters seasons with Baltimore and now Atlanta, Markakis has never been especially spectacular—save…Read more...

Here’s Miami Marlins first base coach Perry Hill, wearing a soggy leaf of lettuce under his batting helmet to stay cool during yesterday’s sweltering afternoon game against the Atlanta Braves:Read more...

At a press conference Tuesday afternoon, Maryland president Wallace Loh and athletic director Damon Evans said the death of football player Jordan McNair was the result of a failure by the football training staff, with Loh saying the “training staff misdiagnosed situation.”Read more...

The Atlanta Braves are among the hosts of an upcoming fundraiser for Republican gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp, shelling out $13,200 to do so. The team’s name is prominently displayed on the event’s invitation:

I had no idea my mom was friends or even acquaintances with Magic Johnson, but I have just learned that she was at the NBA legend’s recent birthday party. Take a look:

Gravity, hanging on by a thread, seemed to be the only remaining thing tying future Duke freshman star Zion Williamson to the rest of us mortals. Until Tuesday.Read more...

Welcome to the Deadspin 25, a college football poll that strives to be more democratic and less useless than every other preseason poll. Leading up to the college football season kickoff, we will give you previews of the 25 teams that you, the readers, voted to be most worthy of writing about. Now, No. 15 Notre Dame.

Time for your weekly edition of the Deadspin Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. Today, we’re talking about starches, pissing on the side of the road, college athletes, and more.Read more...

The Oakland A’s are good, and they are hot, and they are young, and this week they have the opportunity to make a statement. Three games against the Mariners, whom they lead by 2.5 games for the second wild card spot, and then three games against the Astros, whom they trail by 2 games for the division. “The next…Read more...

The Eagles brought in Christian Hackenberg to see if there’s any there there for the 2016 second-round pick, who hasn’t played a regular-season NFL snap and is now on his third team. Today was his first day of full-team practices, and ...

This gripe will be all too familiar to anyone who has followed men’s tennis, but the sport doesn’t have any gosh-darned kids. A cabal of 30-something legends still run the show, coming in and out of injury and picking up where they left off, stomping flat a whole generation of hopefuls. The No. 2 player in the world…Read more...

After a disappointing season with Washington last year, current Jets wide receiver Terrelle Pryor is back practicing with his old teammates during a joint practice in Richmond, Va. They don’t seem particularly happy to see each other.Read more...

Rookie linebacker Roquan Smith ended his holdout yesterday, agreeing to a contract with the Bears that partly addresses the concerns that had kept him from signing. The driving force behind Smith’s holdout was the same thing that initially kept Jets quarterback Sam Darnold out of camp: neither player wanted to sign a…Read more...

Some people are fans of the Washington Redskins. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Washington Redskins. This 2018 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here.Read more...

I’m aware that there are a lot of people out there who just simply cannot bring themselves to watch a person embarrass themselves on a TV. for fear of dying from second-hand embarrassment. I understand. I wanted to crawl into a hole and die when I first watched this.

Continuing a recent streak of great Bosch tool deals, Amazon today will sell you an 18V drill/driver and impact driver combo kit with a pair of batteries, plus a bonus work light for $166. For context, the current price of the combo kit by itself is $179 (though it does get as low as $159 at times), so you’re saving…Read more...