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Bob Nightengale keeps trying to rehab Trevor Bauer

Sometimes, there’s no choice but to cover a vile person in sports because they are doing something that can’t be ignored. Trevor Bauer is not that, but that didn’t stop Bob Nightengale from auditioning to get on his payroll, next to Rachel Luba, whatever it is she does other than be the occasional b...

by Sam Fels|Trevor Bauer

|Mon Mar 11 2024

Long live North Carolina—Duke

The North Carolina Tar Heels won their first outright regular season ACC title in seven years with an 84-79 win over archenemy Duke on Saturday. The annual season finale for the conference is one of the best things going in college basketball, yet there’s a sinking feeling that fans should relish th...

by Sean Beckwith|North Carolina Tar Heels

|Sun Mar 10 2024

James Harden finally found a restaurant willing to carry his wine

Are you looking for traditional flavors with a Japanese flare, a stunning lounge with a live DJ, bowling lanes, exotic hookah, a nightclub, and bottomless J. Harden Wine prosecco all in one convenient, classy one-stop shop? Well look no further than Thirteen Houston, James Harden’s new restaurant ve...

by Sean Beckwith|James Harden

|Sat Mar 09 2024

This week in the locker March 09, 2024

We realize the enormity of saying “the most CONCACAF game ever,” as this particular region of the soccer world is literally where people throw ducks at balloons and nothing is the way it seems. Just about anything can happen when the North and Central American Federation is in charge, and boy did it...

by Deadspin Bot|United States Soccer Federation

|Sat Mar 09 2024

What do the A's & Sydney Opera House have in common?; No winners in Russell Wilson's war; USWNT's CONCACAF madness

Leave it to the A’s and John Fisher to be three months late on the renderings for a ballpark that still feels like it has a better chance of being built in Narnia than it does in Vegas, and then to have it leak out a day after they meant it to: - Sam Fels Read More...

by Deadspin Bot|United States Soccer Federation

|Sat Mar 09 2024

Say what you want about the NBA, it still values its titans

For all the misguided complaints about the melodrama that can be the NBA at times, or the claims that its “wokeness” will be its ruin, or how the league beats itself up over load management or whatever else, it still offers something that none of the other three non-NFL leagues can. And that’s regul...

by Sam Fels|the NBA

|Fri Mar 08 2024

USWNT win the most CONCACAF game ever

by Sam Fels|United States Soccer Federation

|Thu Mar 07 2024

The Oakland A’s want to build the Sydney Opera House

by Sam Fels|Champions League

|Wed Mar 06 2024

Russell Wilson, the most sound and fury signifying the most nothing

One can’t help but wonder if Russell Wilson had just thrown that last pass in Super Bowl 49 into the third row how the rest of it might have played out. Seattle would likely have had consecutive Super Bowls, he’d be a god in the PNW, and perhaps everyone would have had more patience for the mountain...

by Sam Fels|Russell Wilson

|Tue Mar 05 2024

LeBron James creates the 40K club, which he’ll populate alone for a long time

The next player to eclipse 40,000 points in the regular season will have a chance at the title of the NBA’s GOAT simply because the numbers LeBron James will retire with are going to be near impossible to top. It’ll either be someone with freakish longevity, or the most prolific scorer ever. At 40,0...

by Sean Beckwith|LeBron James

|Mon Mar 04 2024

The Locker - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinNCAA swears fealty to NIL collectives, pauses investigations

The NCAA pretty much had its last real vestige of power stripped after the ruling in the Tennessee case last week, and on Friday, announced that it’s pausing all investigations into booster-backed collectives or other third parties making NIL deals. Despite the chaos and malfeasance that will contin...

by Sean Beckwith|NCAA

|Sat Mar 02 2024

MLB uniform controversy; Scott Boras finally succeeds; Trouble brewing for USWNT?

While see-through pants have been the talk of spring training so far, that might not matter as much to fans (at least non-evangelical ones, Woe to Cardinals Nation), as fans don’t tend to want to buy the pants the players are wearing. Maybe you’ve got use for baseball pants in your everyday life, an...

by Deadspin Bot|Scott Boras

|Sat Mar 02 2024

NHL could learn from new women's hockey league playoff and draft formats

The PWHL has accomplished a lot even though it’s only been in existence for a few months. It has set records for attendance. It has sealed the cracks in women’s hockey that had formed. It has given momentum to women’s hockey below the international level, which had been stuck in neutral thanks to sp...

by Sam Fels|NHL

|Fri Mar 01 2024

MLB teams can get their old jerseys back as long as they annoy Nike and Fanatics

by Sam Fels|Nike

|Wed Feb 28 2024

In defense of bad officiating

I’m not going to list all of the polarizing topics people argue about on the internet because there’s not enough time in the day, and I typically avoid thinking about things that make me want to chug paint thinner. There’s so little human beings can agree on that we need at least one evil force to u...

by Sean Beckwith|Hitler

|Tue Feb 27 2024

Is trouble brewing for the USWNT?

It’s been mostly quiet on the Western front for the USWNT since last summer’s World Cup full-body dry heave. A couple of friendlies to send off legends, a couple more to close out the year with no stakes, and an easy start to the Women’s Gold Cup last week with resounding wins over the Dominican Rep...

by Sam Fels|United States Soccer Federation

|Tue Feb 27 2024

Finally, one of Scott Boras’ strays finds a home

Even though spring training is now in full swing, games are being played and every player is hanging dong unintentionally, the major story in MLB remained the four Scott Boras clients that had yet to sign a contract. That number dropped to three, as Cody Bellinger will be fostered by the Cubs, who t...

by Sam Fels|Scott Boras

|Mon Feb 26 2024

How blatantly does Eric Bieniemy have to fail to fail upward?

I just want to point out that coaches like Bobby Petrino and Hugh Freeze, who should be banned for life from the collegiate ranks, are still getting high-profile coordinator and head coaching opportunities. Yet Bieniemy, who isn’t a saint but also didn’t wreck his motorcycle with his mistress on the...

by Sean Beckwith|Eric Bieniemy

|Sun Feb 25 2024

Bowler arrested mid-tournament facing child porn charges

Brandon Novak, the professional bowler who was reportedly arrested by U.S. Marshalls during the middle of a tournament, is facing child pornography charges....

by Mackenzie Meaney|Bowler

|Sat Feb 24 2024

The NBA’s UFC card was loaded Friday night

In a surprise act for the NBA in February, there was some life in a couple of regular season games Friday. First, the Miami Heat played a little too rough with Zion Williamson, and it led to four ejections. Then later, a garbage time layup in the Charlotte Hornets-Golden State Warriors game prompted...

by Sean Beckwith|NBA

|Sat Feb 24 2024

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