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If baseball is a symbol or microcosm of our nation at large, as baseball writers like to constantly tell us while finishing their Weetabix, then it scans that both of those entities are lacking leadership at this moment. Rob Manfred has no clue what to do, because his only directive — making sure the owners squeeze…Read more...

If you can believe it, World Cup Qualifying in CONCACAF (Confederation of North, Central American and Caribbean Association Football) was supposed to have started already. However, with FIFA canceling the spring, summer, and September international windows due to COVID-19, the North American region has had to devise a…Read more...

The main problem of MLB’s “strategy,” such as it was, for playing this season was that it depended on baseball people. It depended on sports people. And in the world of sports people, the binary has always been, “Playing = good, not playing = bad.” Which is how MLB got into this mess.

It’s a day we all suspected, if not outright knew, would come.

The lure is real.

Here we go.

As strange as it may sound, maybe because good news is rarer these days than adamantium, the NWSL Challenge Cup wrapped up today and would have to go down as a success. At the top of the “reasons why” list: after the Orlando Pride pulled out before even arriving in Utah, the tournament saw no positive tests for…Read more...

There was a lot to be decided on the Premier League’s long-awaited final day this morning. Two relegation spots, and two spots in the Champions League, were still up for grabs when things kicked off. It didn’t lack for drama.

Cam Perron started flipping baseball cards in first grade.

Jeff McNeil wants his dog, Willow, on TV as much as possible, according to SNY’s Steve Gelbs, but this was a ruff way to get airtime.

The NFL’s agreed upon protocols appear doomed from the start, and C.J. Mosley sees right through the league’s unbalanced expectations.Read more...

LeBron James is helping create the America we all deserve.

Cardinals pitcher Adam Wainwright is a devout Christian, so much so that in addition to his own regular Twitter account, where the first thing in his bio is “Follower of Jesus,” he maintains another feed called “Walking With Waino,” which links to a newsletter where posts a daily analysis of Bible passages.Read more...

All 22 teams taking part in the NBA restart down in the Orlando “bubble” have now officially competed in game action.Read more...

The poker world is devastated by news of the horrific death of Susie Zhao. Zhao, known on the circuit as Susie Q, was found dead and burned in a park in Michigan earlier this month.

Hey everyone, Michigan State football is the latest “Doofus” in the college game.Read more...

The San Francisco Giants have been lacking a complete moron in their bullpen since they let wall-punching, brawl-starting, even-had-Fox News-wondering-if-he-was-racist imbecile Hunter Strickland go after the 2018 season.

The WNBA season starts Saturday, with the Seattle Storm and New York Liberty squaring off to open a triple header that also includes the Los Angeles Sparks taking on the Phoenix Mercury and the defending champion Washington Mystics facing the Indiana Fever.Read more...

Saturday night marked another session of “Midnight Yoga” on Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington D.C.

Welcome to the 2020 Major League Baseball season. Everything here is shit.

MLB was probably hoping to get through its showcase opener, the defending champ Nationals vs. the marquee franchise Yankees, without any indication of just how stupid and dangerous this all is. But when it comes to looking stupid, no one puts MLB in a corner.Read more...

Habits and superstitions are as much a part of the NBA experience as deception and dysfunction are in the White House. However, with COVID-19, everything has changed. There are certain aspects to players’ games that must be addressed.

The Washington football team will officially be going by what they’ve been referred to for a while.Read more...

It wasn’t the unveiling of the Iceland badge. What could be? And they aren’t the Metropolitans (finally giving us the potential of a functional “Mets” franchise). But Seattle’s NHL expansion team unveiled their name and jerseys this morning, and they’re both kind of great. They are the Kraken. Or it is the Kraken.…Read more...

We got our first look at games in the NBA’s makeshift “bubble” on Wednesday when eight different teams competed in live scrimmages in Orlando.Read more...

We know what the paper says.

In 1943, with their roster torn asunder by players called into military service for World War II, the Philadelphia Eagles moved to Pittsburgh for the year, merged with the Steelers, and became known as the Steagles.Read more...

The Dodgers have won seven straight division crowns, but remain title-free since 1988. Will either of those things change in 2020? Maybe!

In the latest installment of ”Sports Owners and Billionaires Are Terrible People,” we have Woody Johnson.

Baseball is probably be delighted that the discussion today shifted from the Blue Jays not having a home because playing a sport at this time is gruesomely asinine, or that six different Royals have tested positive, to on-field matters. Or on-field as much as a player signing an extension is concerned. But it’s normal…Read more...

The way things are playing out between the NFL and its players association mirrors negotiations between the MLB and its own union.Read more...

It is, somehow, about to be baseball season, so Deadspin’s elite crew of people who have been tasked with making predictions about the 2020 MLB season, Chris Baud, Sam Fels, Julie DiCaro, and Jesse Spector, are here to make predictions about the 2020 MLB season. Everyone recognizes that this is a terrible idea — the…Read more...

Ah, the AL West. The truest representation about where we are as a nation. A division dominated by an organization that couldn’t wait to tell everyone how much smarter it was than everyone in the room, as it cheated, lied, smirked and mocked its way to triumph, only to be found out. And then they’ll win again because…Read more...

Do you love advertising in ballparks? Then do we have a stadium for you!Read more...

I know a fraud when I see one, and Major League Baseball is already showing us that it’s about to give an Academy Award-worthy performance this season.

I know a fraud when I see one, and Major League Baseball is already showing us that it’s about to give an Academy Award-worthy performance this season.Read more...

Dr. Mark Hamilton has a unique vantage point on the return of sports during COVID-19. Hamilton is a medical doctor finishing up his residency at Northwell Health in New York, but less than 10 years ago he was in the majors getting a cup of coffee on a St. Louis Cardinals team that won the World Series in 2011.Read more...

Major League Baseball’s first woman to coach in an on-field capacity took to the red clay during a San Francisco Giants exhibition game on Monday.Read more...

Today, I’m trashing NFL commissioner Roger Goodell.Read more...

The NL Central is the rare occurrence in modern-day Major League Baseball where an argument could be made for four teams to win it. Or, to put it more accurately in today’s context, only one team has actively given up and merely exists to siphon off revenue-sharing and BAMTech money while causing its entire fanbase to…Read more...

A dedicated Twitter and Instagram account, plus bored millionaires cooped up in hotel rooms has brought us to this moment, as basketball fans are turning to social media to monitor the antics of the NBA and WNBA’s bubbles.

Anyone who claims returning from the land of the dead isn’t possible should cast their skeptical eye to the Premier League in September when the 2020-2021 season kicks off. There they’ll find Leeds United, promoted this past weekend, who will be returning from a decade-and-a-half spent in a formless, tortuous land…Read more...

Sunday saw NFL players, in a coordinated approach, posting tweets with the hashtag #WeWantToPlay, calling for the league to listen to experts when it comes to opening up training camps as COVID-19 continues to spread throughout the country.

MLB needs Aaron Judge — even more than the New York Yankees do.Read more...

“Flyover Country” in the American League contains history’s greatest home-run squad (Minnesota, somehow), perhaps the league’s most exciting team….and then three teams not even trying. This is pretty much the norm in baseball these days, a division that has one or two teams fighting over actual prizes and then three…Read more...

At this point, it feels like Dan Snyder’s days are numbered.

When will a straight white hockey player ever get a fair shake in this world, man!

Ernest Fann lives in Birmingham, on a dead-end street down near Valley Creek. As the days go by, and he’s home during the coronavirus pandemic, he has something he wonders about.

The United States is currently the dumbest country in the world.