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Kansas fullback converts two-point conversion into $1,000 worth of Applebee’s

Before this season, if you made a catch like the one Jared Casey did last weekend to clinch the Kansas Jayhawks victory at Texas in overtime, you’d probably be a hero on campus for a few weeks. Your family would fawn over you at Thanksgiving, your parents wouldn’t shut up to their neighbors about th...

by Grace McDermott|Sports

|Fri Nov 19 2021

The WNBA unveils new playoff format

The WNBA announced a new playoff format today that will increase the number of potential games in the tournament and completely get rid of single-elimination games. It will remain an eight-team playoff, with teams seeded based on overall standings over a 36-game regular season, but the first- and se...

by Grace McDermott|WNBA

|Thu Nov 18 2021

NBA GMs are apparently feeling unfairly maligned

NBA general managers are circling the wagons. ...

by Grace McDermott|NBA

|Thu Nov 18 2021

Back to the future with the USFL

Mullets, mom jeans, the United States Football League — you’d be forgiven for thinking you woke up back in the ’80s this morning. Fox Sports announced its sponsored relaunch of the short-lived league, scheduled for the spring of 2022. With an eight-team, two-conference model, spring football will re...

by Grace McDermott|Doug Flutie

|Wed Nov 17 2021

DeMar DeRozan took that personally

DeMar DeRozan is taking it personally. The 32-year-old Chicago Bulls forward put up 38 points in a convincing victory against the Lakers last night, after racking up 35 against the Clippers at the Staples Center. The “Bulls are back” whispers are a little more audible these days, as fans ever-so-ten...

by Grace McDermott|DeMar DeRozan

|Tue Nov 16 2021

How will the College Football Playoff Committee shock and upset everyone tonight?

It’s Tuesday, which means it’s College Football Playoff rankings day, which means the CFP committee is getting ready to royally screw things up again, because that’s how this works....

by Grace McDermott|College Football Playoff

|Tue Nov 16 2021

It’s another wild and woolly Saturday of college football

It’s a noon slot of pure chaos yet again, as the No. 8 Oklahoma Sooners finally met their match in Waco against No. 13 Baylor and were promptly subjected to one of the more unhinged endings to a game that I’ve ever seen. Caleb Williams was struggling on offense all day, throwing two interceptions a...

by Grace McDermott|football

|Sat Nov 13 2021

Jon Gruden wants the last word on the NFL and Roger Goodell

We haven’t heard the last of Jon Gruden yet. The disgraced former Raiders coach is suing Roger Goodell and the NFL, alleging that the league purposely leaked his emails to major news outlets in a “malicious and orchestrated campaign” to “destroy [his] career and reputation.” In a statement released ...

by Grace McDermott|Jon Gruden

|Sat Nov 13 2021

'Spoilermakers' eye Buckeyes in Top 20 clash, and many more goodies on a big Saturday

College football fans have been spoiled rotten for the past few weekends as Saturdays have been filled with beautiful weather, unbelievable comebacks, huge upsets, and just plain old great football. In a season where it truly does feel like it’s anyone’s game, tomorrow’s slate of games promises plen...

by Grace McDermott|Caleb Williams

|Fri Nov 12 2021

Gold medalist Sunisa Lee targeted in anti-Asian incident

(TW: Racist language)...

by gmcdermott - Page 14 | DeadspinGrace McDermott|Sunisa

|Fri Nov 12 2021

Adam Schefter wows us once again with his journalistic integrity

The NFL-Adam Schefter Pipeline hit another kink yesterday when the ESPN insider reported on a tip from Minnesota Vikings running back Dalvin Cook’s agent, alleging that Cook was a victim of domestic violence and extortion. Just a few hours later, the Minnesota Star Tribune reported that Cook’s forme...

by Grace McDermott|Adam Schefter

|Thu Nov 11 2021

Gird your loins for the Coach K farewell tour

College basketball is back in all its upset-heavy glory. Opening night saw No. 17 Ohio State coming THIS close to dropping one to Akron, Navy beating No. 25 Virginia out of nowhere, and a fun Top-10 matchup between No. 10 Kentucky and No. 9 Duke kicking off the biggest story of this season:...

by gmcdermott - Page 14 | DeadspinGrace McDermott|John Calipari

|Wed Nov 10 2021

Why even play the games, CFP committee?

The second set of College Football Playoff rankings was released last night, much to the dismay of anyone who really still thought the playoff committee wasn’t microdosing quaaludes every Saturday before turning on the television. For those of you out there thinking, you just complained about this l...

by Grace McDermott|Sports

|Wed Nov 10 2021

A tale of two Windy Cities

It was comeback city in Chicago last night, as the Bulls and the Bears both mounted fourth quarter efforts against their respective opponents, to — ahem — varied success....

by Grace McDermott|gmcdermott - Page 14 | DeadspinNational Basketball Association

|Tue Nov 09 2021

gmcdermott - Page 14 | DeadspinUNC Wakes up

Say what you will about college football, but Saturdays are never boring....

by Grace McDermott|Sam Hartman

|Sat Nov 06 2021

gmcdermott - Page 14 | DeadspinJames Madison gets its moment in the Sun (Belt)

Conference realignment trickle-down has officially reached the Football Championship Series, as the Sun Belt Conference officially announced the addition of James Madison University Saturday by a unanimous vote of its members’ CEOs....

by Grace McDermott|JAMES MADISON

|Sat Nov 06 2021

gmcdermott - Page 14 | DeadspinBehold: Q-Aaron

Well, looks like Aaron Rodgers has gone full QAnon....

by Grace McDermott|Vaccine hesitancy

|Fri Nov 05 2021

Report: College teams pay $500 million in dead money to coaches to <em>not</em> coach anymore

Half a billion dollars....

by Grace McDermott|Coach

|Fri Nov 05 2021

Did the clock strike midnight on Mike White’s fairy tale?

Less than two weeks ago, Mike White’s mere presence on an NFL roster seemed a miracle. He muddled through a 6-7 senior season with the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers, had a poor performance at the 2018 Combine, and wound up a fifth-round draft pick from the Dallas Cowboys, where he was then cut from t...

by Grace McDermott|Mike White

|Fri Nov 05 2021

NCAA shows it can still play God — the smiting part, at least

The NCAA is making a statement, that’s for sure — that being “don’t cooperate with us. It will only end badly for you, your players, and your school.”...

by Grace McDermott|NCAA

|Thu Nov 04 2021

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