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How a Chicago Bears fan learned to love Dan Campbell

This is hard for a Bears fan to admit, and I might, later on, decide to deny I ever said it, but I was pulling for the Detroit Lions (God, that was uncomfortable to type). It hasn’t always been this way, of course. There was the heated rivalry between Chicago and Detroit during the Barry Sanders yea...

by Julie DiCaro|Chicago Bears

|Tue Jan 30 2024

Thank god for Spain holding Luis Rubiales accountable

Former Spanish Football Federation head Luis Rubiales could be facing not only criminal charges, but jail time, thanks to his planting an extremely unwanted kiss on Jenni Hermoso’s lips after Spain won the World Cup in 2023. On Thursday, the judge who presided over an inquiry into the incident recom...

by Julie DiCaro|Luis Rubiales

|Thu Jan 25 2024

On Sports Illustrated, the LA Times, and why sports writing matters

These are dark days for journalism, once considered the “Fourth Estate” of American democracy, so named because of journalism’s role in advocating for citizens, framing political and social issues, and holding the government to account on behalf of its people. These days, it seems there are two kind...

by Julie DiCaro|julieadicaro - Page 2 | DeadspinSports Illustrated

|Thu Jan 25 2024

The NFL buying ESPN is the final frontier in the effort to kill sports journalism

Last week, my colleague Sean Beckwith wrote about the NFL possibly buying a stake in ESPN, and the potential for the self-proclaimed Worldwide Leader in Sports to become nothing more than the PR arm of the most popular league in America (at least, more than it already is). Yesterday, over at The Nat...

by Julie DiCaro|ESPN

|Thu Jan 18 2024

Is Pat McAfee doing some kind of bizarre performance art?

A week after Pat McAfee failed spectacularly in his quest to “CHECK!” noted anti-vaxxer and conspiracy theorist Aaron Rodgers, announced that “Aaron Rodgers Tuesdays” were done for the year, and then had Rodgers back on the show the very next day, I have begun to ask myself if what McAfee is doing i...

by Julie DiCaro|Pat McAfee

|Thu Jan 18 2024

Pat McAfee lets Aaron Rodgers spout more garbage on today's show

After a week of controversy, New York Jets signal-caller Aaron Rodgers was welcomed back to The Pat McAfee Show with applause and a standing ovation from its host. (To be fair, McAfee is always standing, though at least he’s wearing sleeves today.) ...

by Julie DiCaro|Aaron Rodgers

|Tue Jan 09 2024

Trevor Bauer still doesn’t get it

Mere days after I wrote about the penchant of accused athletes to find a friendly face in the sportswriting community to help them rehab their image among the mouth-breathers in the fandom, Trevor Bauer offered himself up as Exhibit A, launching his own redemption tour in a nakedly desperate attempt...

by julieadicaro - Page 2 | DeadspinJulie DiCaro|Trevor Bauer

|Mon Jan 08 2024

Oscar Pistorius being released from prison is spit in the face of Reeva Steenkamp's memory

South African Olympic track and field star, and convicted murderer Oscar Pistorius was released from prison today after serving seven and a half years for the murder of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp....

by julieadicaro - Page 2 | DeadspinJulie DiCaro|Oscar Pistorius

|Fri Jan 05 2024

julieadicaro - Page 2 | DeadspinStephen A. Smith weighs in on Pat McAfee and, as usual, gets it wrong

Last time I checked, Stephen A. Smith, a man who epitomizes the “embrace really loud debate” and who, just this week, had a man sniffing a female colleague’s shoe on his show, has decided to speak for journalism....

by Julie DiCaro|Pat McAfee

|Thu Jan 04 2024

It’s time for ESPN to put an end to Pat McAfee’s Aaron Rodgers disaster

There was a time in journalism when allowing people to spew false information in a public forum was frowned upon. That was before the ghouls at FOX News realized that there was a lot of money in telling people what they want to hear — truth be damned — first as wild speculation about where former Pr...

by Julie DiCaro|Aaron Rodgers

|Wed Jan 03 2024

Why, exactly, does Omar Vizquel deserve a second chance?

If there’s one thing you can count on in sports, it’s the desire of a certain segment of the media to rehabilitate their favorite players and coaches, no matter the harm done. There was the infamous Adam Schefter softball interview with Greg Hardy shortly after he was accused of doing this to his th...

by Julie DiCaro|Omar Vizquel

|Tue Jan 02 2024

In Gaza, one organization struggles to keep children playing

“Now, everything is completely gone,” Tamara Awartani tells me of the afterschool programs her organization, Palestine Sports for Life (PSFL), had established in Gaza for young children (especially girls) who otherwise had no access to football or physical education. “I was able to check on one girl...

by Julie DiCaro|Municipalities of the State of Palestine

|Thu Dec 14 2023

The USWNT was the most harassed group in sports in 2023, and this, sadly, should surprise no one

On Monday, I wrote a column about being sick of the Kansas City Chiefs. As far as the things I write go, it was fairly light-hearted. No one was accused of anything heinous, it was mostly me whining about Patrick Mahomes throwing a fit at the end of Sunday’s game and how it’s impossible to avoid Tra...

by Julie DiCaro|Twitter

|Wed Dec 13 2023

Ja Morant speaks for the first time about punching teen in face during pick-up game

He pulled up his shorts. That was how Ja Morant explained why he punched a teenager in the face during a game of pickup basketball at his Memphis home in July of 2022. Joshua Holloway, who was 17 at the time of the incident, is suing Morant for hitting him after a game of basketball turned violent, ...

by Julie DiCaro|Morant

|Tue Dec 12 2023

God, I’m sick of the Kansas City Chiefs

Full disclosure, I’ve never been on board with the Kansas City Chiefs. Sure, they were, for a while, the best team in America, with a young and exciting generational talent under center and a head coach who never had to answer for anything because he wears Hawaiian shirts, has a funny mustache, and ...

by Julie DiCaro|Kansas City Chiefs

|Mon Dec 11 2023

How did Ron DeSantis get to be so weird?

If you thought Ron DeSantis stumbling around debate stages in what looked like a pair of high heels, attempting and failing to resemble a human being when he smiles, and being hyper-focused on other people’s genitals is weird, wait until you find out how DeSantis wants to spend a million dollars of ...

by Julie DiCaro|Ron DeSantis

|Thu Dec 07 2023

The Winter Meetings don’t work that way, Shohei

If you exist on a plane outside the insular world of sports Twitter (sports X?), you might not be aware that the world currently hinges on MLB free agent Shohei Ohtani picking a new baseball team. Until said team is chosen, those of us left behind in the bubble can do nothing but hit “refresh” on th...

by Julie DiCaro|Sports

|Wed Dec 06 2023

julieadicaro - Page 2 | DeadspinOregon just got hit with a Title IX lawsuit and the allegations are rough

On Friday, 32 members of the University of Oregon’s women’s beach volleyball and rowing teams filed a class action lawsuit in federal court that accuses the University of depriving female athletes of “equal treatment and benefits, equal athletic aid, and equal opportunities to participate in varsity...

by Julie DiCaro|Title IX

|Tue Dec 05 2023

Do the Miami Marlins have Google?

Back in October, we learned that highly respected baseball mind and glass ceiling-smasher Kim Ng stepped down from her GM role because the Marlins, whom Ng had improved from a record of 57-105 to 84-78 and an NL Wild Card berth, insisted on hiring a president of baseball operations to be Ng’s boss. ...

by Julie DiCaro|Roman Barinas

|Tue Dec 05 2023

julieadicaro - Page 2 | DeadspinWhen Erling Haaland unfurls his majestic hair, you know something is wrong

So how did Man City’s match go against Tottenham on Sunday?...

by Julie DiCaro|Haaland

|Sun Dec 03 2023

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