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If you break your bat in baseball, you get a new bat.Read more...

Joe Musgrove made a really good first impression with the Padres last Saturday, tossing six innings of three-hit ball with eight strikeouts and no walks in his debut with his hometown club after coming over from the Pirates in a three-team trade in January.Read more...

There are a minimal amount of true one-of-ones this planet has ever produced, and DMX is on that short list.

Part of your initiation as a young NBA nucleus is getting your ass whooped in the playoffs. But last season, the Dallas Mavericks were robbed of what could’ve been.

10-4 good buddy, there’s a papa bear on the prowl, watch your six. Over.

When I was in high school I wore 33 on my baseball jersey because of the numbers available in my size, that was the one I could pick to emulate a favorite player, David Wells.Read more...

We gave you Part 1, and now Sam Fels and Bryan Fonseca return with Part 2 of our Wrestlemania preview. Expectations, predictions, observations, and inevitable disappointments (we hope not this time!). Here we go.Read more...

In some ways, it felt like MLB set up their new “inspection of baseballs” rules specifically for Trevor Bauer. He’s the one who openly bitched about the Houston Astros pitchers and their increased spin rate. He’s the one who demonstrated, in Houston, what foreign substances could do. He’s the one who brazenly used…Read more...

The Mets broadcast crew of Gary Cohen, Ron Darling and Keith Hernandez are the very best at what they do.Read more...

The NCAA continues to drop the ball on women’s sports.

In American sports, everybody is always trying to catch up to the NFL. They have the biggest ratings, the largest fan base, and new stadiums constantly trying to out-gargantuan the others. It’s also a league full of shrewd business people who don’t have to pay guaranteed contracts.Read more...

It’s crazy that a man who looks like he could play the lead role in Wedding Crashers has become a force off the bench in the NBA.Read more...

Major League Baseball’s decision to move the All-Star Game out of (suburban) Atlanta as a response to Georgia’s racist voting law generated a response of its own from two of the Senate’s leading shitposting insurrectionists, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee: a threat to draft legislation to revoke baseball’s antitrust exemption.

While watching Shohei Ohtani take a Dylan Cease fastball that was at the height of his Adam’s apple 450 feet out to right center Sunday night, I felt my curiosity piqued when the Statcast numbers came in. 450 feet seemed right, because he utterly murdered that ball. But that wasn’t what shifted my eyebrows. It was the…Read more...

Marvin Scott III’s family wasn’t notified of his death in the Collin County Detention Agency until nearly 15 hours later, and then only by a text message from the medical examiner.

It’s the Showcase of the Immortals! And it’s a return to live crowds for wrestling, at least for big-time wrestling. As well as the first time the industry’s biggest show appears on Peacock. So many nuances! Once again, Wrestlemania is split into two nights, and Deadspin wrestling writers Bryan Fonseca and Sam Fels…Read more...

Former NFL defensive back Phillip Adams shot and killed five people in South Carolina on Wednesday afternoon, and then killed himself in the early hours of Thursday morning, according to an Associated Press report. Those killed were Dr. Robert Lesslie, 70, his wife, Barbara Lesslie, 69, their grandchildren Adah…Read more...

I’ve used this space to try and quiet any meaning to NBA regular-season games. It’s been especially acute this season, when teams have rarely been at full-strength, and they seem more intent on just being intact for the playoffs, which they know are what counts and are more likely to have at least some fans. Big games…Read more...

A good rule of thumb in life is to always avoid making the same mistake twice.Read more...

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Tiger Woods was involved in a car crash in February, and according to Los Angeles County Sheriff Alex Villanueva, Woods was speeding heavily in the 45 MPH zone. Over the course of seven seconds and multiple impacts, Woods was driving between 85 and 87 miles per hour.

Nike announced this morning that it has suspended its endorsement deal with Deshaun Watson over mounting sexual misconduct allegations.

Being labeled an NBA journeyman has to be awkward.Read more...

The news out of Vancouver isn’t getting any better.Read more...

Steve Waithe, a former assistant track and field coach at Tennessee and Northeastern, was arrested Wednesday in Chicago on federal charges of cyberstalking and wire fraud, stemming from an alleged scheme that’s equal parts stupid and gross.

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And then there’s the PGA.Read more...

No one seriously expects the U.S., or any of its allies, to boycott the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing.Read more...

Hey, let’s watch Angel Hernandez suck at his job! Again.Read more...

The Atlanta Cockatoos need to be careful about trading the number four pick in this year’s NFL draft.

In a year that’s seen dwindling viewership across men’s sports, women’s sports seem to be hitting new highs.

LSU has been churning out wide receiver talent over the last couple seasons, none more notably than last year’s should-have-been Offensive Rookie of the Year and Vikings phenom Justin Jefferson. This year, the NFL, its scouting personnel, and everyone who gets paid to share their opinions are seemingly all in love…Read more...

Because he’s been traded to the New York Yankees, Rougned Odor has to adopt the identity of a “clean-cut” American baseball player due to a policy that’s 48 years old.

On Monday, while the college basketball world was preparing for the national championship game between Gonzaga and Baylor, East Tennessee State was busy naming its first Black men’s basketball coach.Read more...

Yes, special teams players are people too. Except this one looks like he should be playing in the backfield. So it’s no surprise that Nicho Domine, the high school punter featured in this video, lists himself as a defensive back and wide receiver on his Twitter page. The kid also says he’ll try to walk on to the…Read more...

The New York Jets won’t be, can’t be, right about this in the end.Read more...

There are few problems that La Liga can’t make worse. They’re giving the world a prime example of that in the past couple days.

Aaron Rodgers recently said that hosting Jeopardy! full-time would be a “dream job,” and it’s one that now seems within reach.Read more...

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It was bad enough when the Red Sox rolled out green alternate jerseys, but at least those had some meaning to them. The Sox have worn green to honor Red Auerbach after his death, again to celebrate the Celtics beating the Lakers in the NBA Finals, and then once more for Earth Day in 2009. They looked stupid, but there…Read more...

When I saw the news that Paul Pierce got fired from ESPN, I and many others had this initial reaction:

It’s Trash Talking Tuesday, and today I’m trashing former President Donald Trump for asking fans to boycott MLB.

Gonzaga choked, and it’s Mark Few’s burden to carry.

When I get mad about the lame-ass suspensions and fines the NHL hands out for hits to the head, this is why.

This is what happens when you believe in something good:Read more...

If there were any questions about if the Jets were all in on Zach Wilson, they got answered on Monday.

The progressive heroes or “woke” decision-makers of the MLB (lol) made an uncharacteristically bold choice to strip Georgia of the 2021 All-Star Game. It’s a move that now plays into the hands of political opportunists like Texas Governor Greg Abbott.

It’s been a few weeks of conflicting emotions for USMNT fans. Which I suppose is a slight improvement on just total dread, sorrow, and Cure makeup, the usual state in which we find ourselves. Take our victories where we can find them, I guess.

When people talk about investing more resources into the women’s game, it goes far beyond any monetary value.

Shohei Ohtani’s remarkable mound/plate performance last night helped mask what otherwise was a turgid, if not torturous, ESPN broadcast. The network’s Sunday Night Baseball show has been a bane to fans for pretty much its entire existence, spawning the one site that’s basically responsible for all the sites like this…Read more...