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There is no aspect of baseball that MLB won’t make worse for a nickel

We know that MLB owners have no problem making their actual product worse, because it’s cheaper. They’ve expanded the playoffs, making more teams comfortable simply aiming for barely .500. Many teams will use the facade of a rebuild to never actually try, and others will join them to avoid signing a...

by Sam Fels|MLB

|Wed Feb 14 2024

The Mourning After - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinFinally, politicians tell a team owner to shove their new arena proposal

The stadium/arena swindle in pro sports has been going on for a couple decades now, but that kind of history couldn’t save Ted Leonsis’s plan for a new arena in Virginia for the Capitals and Wizards. Even with numerous studies and proof that publicly funded arenas or stadiums have no public benefit ...

by Sam Fels|L. Louise Luca

|Wed Feb 14 2024

Everyone’s good enough to lose to Patrick Mahomes

The big takeaway from Sunday night’s Super Bowl is that creep in your DMs might just be The Messiah. But then, that’s not really all that surprising, is it? Given what’s been done in his name lately? ...

by Sam Fels|Patrick Mahomes

|Mon Feb 12 2024

Pacers' Tyrese Haliburton throws the ball off the glass in the most mundane way possible

Throwing a basketball off the backboard to yourself is quickly becoming a loophole. The latest NBA player to do it was Tyrese Haliburton, and he didn’t even do it to throw himself an alley-oop. The Indiana Pacers point guard picked up his dribble, almost double dribbled and then threw the ball off t...

by Sean Beckwith|Tyrese Haliburton

|Sun Feb 11 2024

Chip Kelly taking a consulting gig is exactly what a near-retiree would do

All the outrage over an old-ish head coach stepping down to take a cushy consulting/coordinating job is a little much. Chip Kelly going from head coach of the UCLA Bruins to running one of the most talented offenses in the country at Ohio State is exactly how I’d want to spend my twilight years if I...

by Sean Beckwith|Chip Kelly

|Sat Feb 10 2024

The Mourning After - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinIn soccer, yellow mixed with orange now equals . . . blue?

There is a throughline to some joke about a player in the future being shown a blue card and then having an arduous and impatient wait to be released out of a penalty box/sin bin. I’m clearly too mature to make such a joke. ...

by Sam Fels|Yellow

|Fri Feb 09 2024

An ode to Devin Hester, one of the few things about the Bears you can't mock

I have to sit here throughout the football season, and now even a month afterwards, and read all the other jackasses on this staff say stuff about the Bears. None of them are from here, most of it’s wrong, and even if it’s correct what gives them the right? Everyone’s got a goddamn thought and none ...

by Sam Fels|Devin Hester

|Thu Feb 08 2024

Baseball Prospectus' 2024 projections have fan bases losing their minds

It’s easy to tell when there will be leather popping and maple and ash cracking on some distant Florida or Arizona field. No, it’s not the fact that it doesn’t quite get dark at 4 pm anymore. Not even Valentine’s Day or President’s Day. Nope, spring training is always around the corner when the PECO...

by Sam Fels|Baseball Prospectus

|Wed Feb 07 2024

And the highest payroll in the AL Central goes to . . . the Kansas City Royals?

If there’s a surer sign that baseball has had a winter of discontent, at least for everyone outside the LA metro area, it’s that the highest payroll in the American League Central belongs to the Kansas City Royals. That’s after they inked star shortstop Bobby Witt Jr. to an 11-year extension that’s ...

by Sam Fels|Kansas City Royals

|Tue Feb 06 2024

Nikita Kucherov exposed NHL All-Star weekend for the farce that it is

There’s a fallacy out there that any All-Star Game is “for the fans.” That idea flew out the window long ago, especially for the NBA and NHL. The All-Star Game is merely a junket for the league’s biggest sponsors to get the chance to hobnob with the game’s top stars, a reward for their support of th...

by Sam Fels|Nikita Kucherov

|Tue Feb 06 2024

SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey is more powerful than the NCAA

In any drug kingpin story worth watching, there’s inevitably the scene where a policeman gets threatened or flat-out killed as a warning or retribution. Usually, it precedes and prompts the anti-hero’s downfall. SEC commissioner Greg Sankey more or less sent the NCAA a hand-written note with the nam...

by Sean Beckwith|Greg Sankey

|Sat Feb 03 2024

The Orioles finally act like the big boys they are

Good to be an O’s fan these days. We have no idea what kind of owner David Rubenstein will be, and it could be he’s just as interested in the “ballpark village” that John Angelos secured the tax money for before selling up. But his status as “Not An Angelos” will provide Orioles fans with optimism r...

by Sam Fels|Mike Elias

|Fri Feb 02 2024

The Mourning After - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinThe four NHLers charged with sexual assault have a common thread

It is now official that Carter Hart, Cal Foote, Michael McLeod and Dillon Dube are facing sexual assault charges in London, Ontario for an incident that took place in June of 2018 after an event honoring the 2018 Canadian World Juniors team. Alex Formenton, who plays in Europe, was also charged. All...

by Sam Fels|Dillon Dube

|Wed Jan 31 2024

Barcelona are truly lost

While Jurgen Klopp stole most of the manager-leaving-at-end-of-season headlines, another of the biggest clubs in the world is losing their manager come May. That would be Barcelona, as Xavi announced he would be leaving his post when this season ends. The difference between the two is that one is le...

by Sam Fels|Barcelona

|Tue Jan 30 2024

Oh, you thought you were different, Lions?

Really thought you’d built something, didn’t you, Detroit Lions? The uniform change, the positivity, the belief, the empty catchphrases, whatever they were. Thought you’d shed that old Honolulu blue-and-silver skin and become something new, something better, didn’t you? Were sure you’d left the deca...

by Sam Fels|Medvedev–Tsitsipas rivalry

|Mon Jan 29 2024

Nathan MacKinnon is doing things to Avalanche fans

Seeing a four-goal game is perhaps the rarest thing a hockey fan can witness in person. It’s not too far off from seeing a no-hitter. I’ve been going to hockey games for 364 years, and I’ve seen one. Steve Thomas vs. the Devils in March of 1990 at Chicago Stadium. I didn’t have to look that up (well...

by Sam Fels|Nathan MacKinnon

|Thu Jan 25 2024

Adrian Beltre and Joe Mauer are headed to Cooperstown, while Todd Helton snuck in Vincent Adultman style under their jackets

Wading into Baseball Hall of Fame debates is like diving into a pool full of eels, if the eels were up their own ass (personally, not physically, which eels might be able to do). Everyone’s got their own benchmarks, everyone hates your benchmarks, and never the twain shall meet. At the end of the da...

by Sam Fels|Todd Helton

|Wed Jan 24 2024

This about sums up the Penguins season

Hockey can be infuriating. In no other sport can you do mostly everything right, but a little chinks in the armor can have an outsized effect if they’re spaced out correctly. Go 0-fer on the power play, or don’t get a save at the right time, or give up the wrong odd-man rush in the gimmick of overti...

by Sam Fels|the Aussie Open

|Tue Jan 23 2024

The Bills played their role perfectly

Every great dynasty has its one foe that is there simply to be toppled and make that conquering force look all the more mighty. Michael Jordan had the New York Knicks. Tom Brady had Peyton Manning. The New York Yankees had the Boston Red Sox. And then the Red Sox had the Yankees. The Romans kicked a...

by Sam Fels|Tom Brady

|Tue Jan 23 2024

Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown need a two-man game

The best duo in the NBA put on a show against the best team in the East on Friday night. Denver’s 102-100 win over Boston snapped the Celtics’ perfect mark at TD Garden this season, and 27-game home-winning streak overall. Nikola Jokić and Jamal Murray combined for 69 points, 20 rebounds and 14 assi...

by Sean Beckwith|Jayson Tatum

|Sat Jan 20 2024

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