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Here's a second-half NBA prediction: Intermittent switch-flipping

It felt like the NBA used to be a lot more consistent. The teams that were good in the regular season also were good in the postseason, for the most part, and if you looked and/or played like a scrub, you were usually dismissed like one. During this era, it’s almost as if you should wait to lay futu...

by Sean Beckwith|NBA

|Fri Feb 23 2024

RIP the 12-team College Football Playoff

Hours after it was announced that the College Football Playoff would adopt a 5+7 format, the conference commissioners leaked that 14- and 16-team formats have been discussed. Jim Phillips, ACC commissioner and captain of a drowning vessel, said “At the end of the day, it’s about the right model.” Th...

by Sean Beckwith|College Football Playoff

|Thu Feb 22 2024

Is Bill Belichick’s gap year a post-dated suspension for Spygate?

The New England Patriots dynasty ended when Tom Brady left for Tampa Bay, but now it’s officially over as the Pats’ run is getting The Last Dance treatment. Yes, only a season past Bill Belichick’s departure, Apple+ has a nine-parter called The Dynasty coming out whenever. What they won’t tell you i...

by Sean Beckwith|Bill Belichick

|Wed Feb 21 2024

Steph bests Sabrina in their 3-point shootout

The better player won. Steph Curry beat Sabrina Ionescu in their 3-point showdown at the NBA’s All-Star Skills contest last night, 29-26....

by Mackenzie Meaney|the MLB

|Sun Feb 18 2024

Ever wonder what an NBA game would look like, <i>Spiderman </i>style?

The NBA kicked off its All-Star weekend with a celebrity game where influencers, NFL players, and WNBA stars got to attempt the sport’s first-ever eight-point shot. But the real “innovation” for basketball came hours before Stephen A. and Shannon Sharpe’s teams took the LED court. ...

by Mackenzie Meaney|NBA

|Sat Feb 17 2024

War on trans girls in sports grows; Uproar over Fanatics-made MLB jerseys; DC tells Leonsis to kiss off with arena bid

When I was in school, I had a friend who was a fantastic athlete (she still is). She was tall, thin, wore her hair short and could keep up with any of the guys in gym class and outperform 90 percent of them in just about any sport. She didn’t wear makeup and her wardrobe consisted mostly of gender-n...

by Deadspin Bot|Sports

|Sat Feb 17 2024

Apparently you can get a college scholarship to play cornhole

Perhaps you’ve played cornhole during a backyard BBQ, or at a tailgate before a college or pro football game....

by Mackenzie Meaney|Cornhole

|Fri Feb 16 2024

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 war on trans girls in sports is going exactly the way we thought it would

by Julie DiCaro|Anti-LGBT movement in the United States

|Wed Feb 14 2024

Finally, 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|The Locker - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinTyrese 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

Nikita Kucherov makes mockery of All-Star Weekend; Here's to Devin Hester; The Royals are finally spending?

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 Deadspin Bot|Kucherov

|Sat Feb 10 2024

In 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

The Locker - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinAnd 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

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

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