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by Dustin Foote on (#5K573)
Yes, billion with a b.
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by Rob Parker on (#5K540)
To: New York NBA fansRead more...
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by Bryan Fonseca on (#5K541)
Ughhhhh.
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by Jesse Spector on (#5K504)
Tyler Glasnow isn’t wrong that Major League Baseball has done a poor job in executing its crackdown on sticky stuff.
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by Sam Fels on (#5K4XB)
The Bucks might still win this series. Getting harder to see how, as Kyrie Irving could be back for Games 6 and/or 7 and James Harden might actually gain the use of a second leg. And even if neither of those things happen, they still found a way in Game 5. And it’s not that Giannis Antetokounmpo was bad last night, as…Read more...
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by Donovan Dooley on (#5K4PA)
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has been fighting for more than 50 years.Read more...
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by Jon Hoefling on (#5K45F)
As the MLB season marches on, the Hot Stove heats up. The trade deadline is still a month-and-a-half away, but the rumors have already started flying. Names are being dropped. Fans are giving hot takes, and MLB clubs straddling the line between playoff contenders and pretenders are trying to decide whether or not they…Read more...
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by Jon Helmkamp on (#5K45G)
There’s little question that Xavien Howard is one of the best cornerbacks in the NFL. He had 10 — TEN — interceptions last season. He’s a corner any team would be lucky to have. Fortunately for Dolphins fans, he’s theirs, in theory, until after the 2024 season. He is, however, not real happy.
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by Bryan Fonseca on (#5K41T)
On Monday, the NFL posted a video teasing a forthcoming announcement in regards to their Madden 22 cover. The social media post suggests that the announcement will be shared at 10 a.m. Thursday.Read more...
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by Sam Fels on (#5K41V)
I bet, my fellow footyphiles, that we thought we were done with international tournaments including players nibbling on each other, what with Luis Suarez not involved in the European Championships and probably too old for the next World Cup. And Copa America has bigger problems, though I suppose we can’t rule it out.…Read more...
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by Sam Fels on (#5K3WQ)
If you thought having a massive soccer tournament switched to a country governed by a corrupt dickhead in the span of less than two weeks was a really bad idea, well you can pat yourself on the back. You were right. Copa America has been everything we sadly thought it would be and it’s only three days old.
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by Carron J. Phillips on (#5K3WR)
After Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and George Floyd had all been murdered, and before Jacob Blake got shot in the back seven times, the NFL began its 2020 season on a Thursday night in Kansas City, where the limited number of fans in the stands decided to boo a moment of unity.
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by Jon Helmkamp on (#5K3WS)
Apparently nobody has any idea what’s going on with the quarterback position in New England, as different reporters at the same practices are saying different things. The Patriots took Michael McCorkle Jones with the No. 15 overall pick in April’s NFL Draft, and still have incumbent Cam Newton under contract for one…Read more...
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by Dustin Foote on (#5K3SR)
Everyone has a wallet… right? Well, apparently not.
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by Jon Hoefling on (#5K3SS)
Yesterday, MLB released its first All-Star voting update after the polls first opened on June 3. However, phase one of All-Star voting does not finish until June 27. When that day comes, only the top-three vote-getters (nine for outfield) at each position will advance to phase two of voting which will determine the…Read more...
by Dustin Foote on (#5K3ST)
American track star Shelby Houlihan, a 2016 Olympian and the U.S. record holder in the 1,500m and 5,000m, took to Instagram Monday to argue that her positive test for the steroid nandrolone came from eating… wait for it… a pork burrito.
by Julie DiCaro on (#5K3NZ)
Welcome to the Ladies Room - A Deadspin Sports Podcast.
by Bryan Fonseca on (#5K3EV)
One day, we’ll learn how this collection of injuries from the 2021 NBA Playoffs could be quantified historically, but, unfortunately, this has to be one of the most football-ass NBA seasons yet.
by Sam Fels on (#5K39C)
I’ve remarked numerous times that MLB owners can only see the one dollar right in front of their face instead of the three that might be waiting down the road. Most of the decisions that were just about cashing in now are why baseball’s popularity is currently diving down in a way that DC won’t let Batman (See?, I’m…Read more...
by Jon Helmkamp on (#5K2GK)
Dallas Baptist University is playing the University of Virginia in a win-or-go-home Super Regional game right now, and something I haven’t seen in a while just happened — a runner got on first, stole second, then the batter hit a fly to deep right that allowed the runner to move to third. What is this? Actual…Read more...
by Donovan Dooley on (#5K2E7)
The NBA must reconsider the definitions of these fouls.Read more...
by Sam Fels on (#5K2E8)
Out of the many shocks of Saturday’s Denmark-Finland Euro 2020 game was that the game continued not even two hours after Christian Eriksen collapsed on the field. When it was announced, most couldn’t fathom that either team would be in any kind of state to play. Part of UEFA’s statement — “per the players’ request” —…Read more...
by Dustin Foote on (#5K2E9)
I guess he’s still got it.
by Julie DiCaro on (#5K2C0)
If you aren’t in or around the Chicago area, you might not know about the Ann and Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital. A gem of a building located close to Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, Lurie has been the gold standard for treating children with everything from “boo-boos to blood disorders,” as their website boasts.
by Jon Helmkamp on (#5K2A3)
I’m not a professional athlete. I’m not even an athlete. I used to be, back in my youth. You’ll hear a cornucopia of opinions on sports from me, from strategy to execution. When a player does something fantastic, I’ll say it. When a player does something awful, I’ll say it. What you will never hear me say, however, is…Read more...
by Carron J. Phillips on (#5K27K)
When Kyrie Irving went down with an ankle injury halfway through the second quarter of Sunday’s Bucks and Nets Game 4 matchup, basketball fans simultaneously let out a loud groan. The injury bug had hit another star in a season that may be remembered for who was left standing, instead of who was the best of the best.
by Donovan Dooley on (#5K27M)
Who would have thought that Chris Paul would turn into the main character of an NBA fairy tale story?
by Sam Fels on (#5K22Y)
Shortly after sports returned from their pandemic-enforced break, all leagues announced that media interactions would not take place in the dressing rooms or clubhouse or on the field while the COVID was still ever-present. Press conferences would be conducted in a Zoom-type fashion, and ever since that moment we fans…Read more...
by Dustin Foote on (#5K200)
Euro 2021 (technically Euro 2020, but whatever) just started and I think we’ve already seen the goal of the tournament. Maybe the year?Read more...
by Rob Parker on (#5K201)
We are watching the worst NBA playoffs ever.
by Sam Fels on (#5K1WJ)
I’ve documented how on the field, the Chicago Cubs are quickly becoming one of the stories in Major League Baseball. This is a team that had been partially stripped for parts by its owner (even though he’s tried to duck that in recent days like the coward he is), who also left the roster high and dry by not providing…Read more...
by Donovan Dooley on (#5K138)
The Denver Nuggets can’t go out like this.Read more...
by Sam Fels on (#5K11X)
When discussing tennis history, people’s tastes will always influence and muddy debates about who’s what and the places they hold. Because it’s an individual sport that incorporates so many styles among its players that what one individual prefers watching will always make them lean in one direction or another about…Read more...
by Dustin Foote on (#5K0ZE)
Kyler Murray grew up around Dallas, but don’t mistake him for a Cowboy fan.
by Sam Fels on (#5K0XA)
Nine years ago or so on some blog from a previous life, I wrote much of what’s to follow here when Fabrice Muamba collapsed on the field, much in the same way Christian Eriksen did yesterday. Whenever something like this happens, broadcasters, pundits, anyone forced to comment on things that really no one can get…Read more...
by Donovan Dooley on (#5K0X9)
The greatness of HBCUs was on full display this weekend.
by Dustin Foote on (#5K0V8)
Thankfully, Denmark midfielder Christian Eriksen is alive after suffering what’s now been confirmed as cardiac arrest.
by Jesse Spector on (#5K0R3)
Only 29 percent of the people in Brazil want the country to host Copa America, with 64 percent opposed, but that’s what’s happening anyway, even with 2,000 deaths a day from COVID-19 in Brazil, even with 65,000 new daily cases of coronavirus, even after a dozen members of Venezuela’s contingent tested positive.Read more...
by Tom Keegan on (#5K0N8)
Born on death row, The National Sports Daily perished of its own hand 30 years ago today, June 13, 1991.
by Jon Hoefling on (#5K06S)
Former All-Pro running back Le’Veon Bell shouldn’t be burning bridges nowadays. The 29-year-old former Jet, Steeler, and Chief took to Instagram this last night and when asked by a fan whether or not he’d return to the Chiefs next season, Bell replied: “I’ll never play for Andy Reid again...I’d retire first.”
by Bryan Fonseca on (#5K06T)
It’s been a minute … maybe even millions of them.
by Jesse Spector on (#5K06V)
Boris Johnson is truly awful on a lot of levels, including in his approach to race, but even the English prime minister knows that it’s a bad look when fans boo athletes who take a knee as a form of peaceful protest.
by Jon Helmkamp on (#5K0R4)
American football is set to make its triumphant return to Europe in the European League of Football. That’s right — the ELF. Thirty years after the inaugural season of the NFL-owned World League of American Football, which hasn’t been operational since 2007, ELF will launch June 19 with eight teams, most of which are…Read more...
by Jon Hoefling on (#5K06W)
New York Mets’ starter Jacob deGrom is kinda having a pretty alright season. More than 60 games in, his 0.56 ERA is half that of Bob Gibson’s from 1968 (1.12 — the lowest single-season ERA in the modern era). He’s also striking out 14.48 batters per nine innings pitched, which would also be the all-time single-season…Read more...
by Bryan Fonseca on (#5K06X)
The Denver Nuggets are down 3-0, meaning no team who reached the NBA’s Final Four in The Bubble has won a game past Round 1, and one of them didn’t even do that. But these four teams — the Nuggets, Los Angeles Lakers, Miami Heat, and Boston Celtics — shouldn’t be diminished for accomplishing what they did in The…Read more...
by Jesse Spector on (#5K06Y)
The Denmark-Finland match at the European Championship was suspended on Saturday after Danish star Christian Eriksen collapsed on the field just before halftime.
by Jesse Spector on (#5K06Z)
As Maggie Hendricks of Bally Sports reported that 90 percent of the United States swimming team is vaccinated for COVID-19, she noted that “Ryan Lochte preferred not to answer the question on if he was vaccinated.”Read more...
by Jesse Spector on (#5JZX7)
It’s beginning to look a lot like a short second round of the NBA playoffs after the Suns rolled out to a 3-0 lead on the Nuggets with a 116-102 win in Denver on Friday night, behind 28 points from Devin Booker and a 27-point, eight-assist night from Chris Paul.Read more...
by Jesse Spector on (#5JZX8)
Jacob deGrom is incredible, that’s nothing new. Friday night, the best pitcher on the planet had his third game this season with double-digit strikeouts and no walks, lowering his ERA to 0.56 with six innings of one-hit ball against the Padres.Read more...
by Jesse Spector on (#5JZVS)
Ryan Butcher started the 10th inning for the Diamondbacks in their game against the Angels on Friday night, with Jared Walsh serving as the courtesy runner at second base. But it was another of baseball’s unnecessary and irritating new rules that really wound up causing trouble for Arizona.