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Ranking - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinNFL Power Rankings: Top Five Teams Heading Into Week 3

These are the top five NFL teams as we head into Week 3 of the 2024 NFL season, as the Kansas City Chiefs retain the No. 1 spot....

by Nick Pedone|

|Wed Sep 18 2024

There’s No Universe Where Tyreek Hill Is the NFL's Best Player

Miami Dolphins receiver Tyreek Hill was voted the No. 1 player in the NFL by his peers, but there's no universe where he's a better football player than Patrick Mahomes....

by Nick Pedone|

|Sat Aug 03 2024

2024 NFL Preseason Power Rankings: Top Five NFL Teams Heading Into 2024 Preseason

NFL preseason kicks off this week, so we ranked the top 5 NFL teams heading into the 2024 season, headlined by the reigning champion Kansas City Chiefs....

by Nick Pedone|

|Mon Jul 29 2024

21 PGA players have lawyered up

Twenty-one players on the PGA tour announced this week that they have hired lawyers and sent a letter to the PGA Tour Policy Board asking for full disclosure of details of proposals by potential capital partners. ...

by Mackenzie Meaney|

|Wed Dec 13 2023

Alcaraz’s cramps robbed us of satisfying conclusion to dream match against Djokovic

Well, that escalated quickly. It was nearly even in one of the biggest matches tennis has had in decades with a clash of the generations between old-standard Novak Djokovic and rising star Carlos Alcaraz. Then that damn charley horse in Alcaraz’s right leg happened and Djokovic won 10 of the next 11...

by Eric Blum|

|Sat Jun 10 2023

A College Football Playoff bid is on the line for USC the next three weeks

It’s the penultimate week of college football’s regular season, and I’ll give you four guesses as to which conference has the most ranked teams. I’d like to thank SEC fans for their quick response, but nope, it’s not them. Big Ten fans aren’t even chiming in because one of their two divisions doesn’...

by Sean Beckwith|

|Fri Nov 18 2022

Philadelphia Eagles’ easy schedule could ensure the road to Super Bowl runs through Philadelphia

The Philadelphia Eagles are tied for the ninth most difficult remaining strength of schedule in terms of combined winning percentage, with their remaining opponents a combined .533. That looks tough on paper, but when you read between the lines, it looks like Philly could run away with the top seed ...

by Sean Beckwith|

|Sat Oct 15 2022

Trouncing LIV Golf may just be the fire Rory McIlroy needs

Rory McIlroy has never been bad — not even close to it — but he has lost his grasp on greatness (or, at the very least, how the sport has chosen to define the word) in the eight years since he last won a major tournament. He’s found continued success on the Tour, racking up consistent wins and high ...

by Grace McDermott|

|Fri Jun 17 2022

Will LIV golfers be allowed at Augusta?

The LIV tour is live. The lines have been drawn and the hammers thrown down, and Charl Schwartzel has taken home the first ever LIV win in London, and yet with each declaration from a defecting golfer or a pissed-off PGA exec, more and more questions arise. The biggest one on everyone’s minds right ...

by Grace McDermott|

|Sun Jun 12 2022

Can anyone fill the void left by Serena Williams and now Ash Barty?

Ash Barty’s retirement from professional tennis was a blunt instrument between the eyes of the WTA community. Barty was coupled with Naomi Osaka as the future of women’s tennis. At 25, she was coming into her own after winning the Australian Open in January, Wimbledon in 2021 and the 2019 French Ope...

by DJ Dunson|

|Wed Mar 23 2022

Pro golfers are just like us… sometimes

Ten inches — it was a putt that should have been nothing for the world’s current top golfer, Jon Rahm. But something just went wrong. He didn’t take a full stance, strolling up to the ball on the green to tap it in. The ball traveled about three inches before coming to a stop, turning what would hav...

by Grace McDermott|

|Fri Mar 04 2022

Ranking - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinThe great, young golfer not enough people are talking about

Update (7/18, 2:00 p.m.): Well, Collin Morikawa has won the British Open. Get used to hearing his name....

by Jon Hoefling|

|Sun Jul 18 2021

Ranking - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinWeek 13 Powerless Rankings: Wading through the NFL’s putrid muck

It’s time once again to highlight the teams stinking up the joint every single week....

by Donovan Dooley|

|Mon Dec 07 2020

Week 12 Powerless Rankings: Jets remain terrible, as does NFC East

It’s time once again to highlight the teams stinking up the joint every single week....

by Donovan Dooley|

|Mon Nov 30 2020

Week 11 NFL Powerless Rankings

It’s time once again to highlight the teams stinking up the joint every single week....

by Donovan Dooley|

|Mon Nov 23 2020

NFL Week 9 Powerless Rankings: The race to the bottom stumbles on

It’s time once again to highlight the teams stinking up the joint every single week....

by Donovan Dooley|

|Mon Nov 09 2020

Week 8 Powerless Rankings: Poor Trevor Lawrence

Another Sunday of NFL football has concluded....

by Donovan Dooley|

|Mon Nov 02 2020

Tanking for Trevor: This week's NFL Powerless Rankings

Deadspin is proud to introduce its weekly #TankforTrevor Powerless Rankings, where we examine the sorriest teams in the league who have the best chance of selecting Clemson star quarterback Trevor Lawrence in the 2021 NFL draft....

by Donovan Dooley|

|Mon Oct 19 2020

Classic Rock, Ranked

Kelsey said she saw the film Yesterday on a plane. I said I didn’t understand why “Eleanor Rigby” was such a popular Beatles song. This being Deadspin, we have, after hours of yelling at each other in Slack, reached the natural endpoint of this, which is a democratically produced staff ranking of cl...

by Lauren Theisen|

|Thu Oct 24 2019

The Deadspin 100: NBA Players, Ranked

It’s that time of year again, hoops fans! The NFL season is in full swing, baseball’s playoffs start next week, and the NBA regular season won’t tip off for another month. You know what that means: It’s time to rank the top 100 active NBA players!...

by Albert Burneko|

|Wed Sep 25 2019

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