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Improbable run puts hoops history in reach

Here’s the number of times a basketball team won an Olympic gold medal in front of their home country: Five....

by Jon Helmkamp|Sports

|Sat Aug 07 2021

France vs. USA — for a gold medal, and 73 years’ worth of revenge

Put yourself in the summer of 1948....

by Jon Helmkamp|The Ed Sullivan Show

|Fri Aug 06 2021

Kevin Hart and Snoop Dogg have been the best part of the Olympics

The Olympics have been lackluster. Kevin Hart and Snoop Dogg have not. ...

by Carron J. Phillips|Snoop Dogg

|Fri Aug 06 2021

Are we properly understanding USA women’s dominance on the court? Nah, probably not

We’ve gotten two collaborations around 20 years in the making this week: LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony, and Nas and Eminem. Even when they all broke into their respective industries, Team USA’s women’s basketball program had already been winning gold medals. The first came in 1984, and they’ve wo...

by Jon Helmkamp|the Olympics

|Fri Aug 06 2021

This wasn’t such a good idea, but we knew that

While we’ve all been distracted by watching Olympians from around the world set new records on the athletic field, COVID has been setting some records of its own....

by Julie DiCaro|Coca-Cola

|Thu Aug 05 2021

Dumb opinions from irrelevant Florida man

A 75-year-old Florida man has a garbage opinion about the U.S. women’s soccer team that he emailed to a bunch of like-minded reactionary dopes on Thursday morning, something that wouldn’t be notable at all if this fellow with a festering dumpster of manure where his brain should be didn’t happen to ...

by Jesse Spector|Olympics - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | Deadspinthe Olympics

|Thu Aug 05 2021

Deadspin fixes: The Olympics

After the semifinals of the men’s 110-meter hurdles in Tokyo, eventual silver medalist Grant Holloway talked in an NBC interview about the challenge of sitting around the Olympic Village, waiting for what seemed like an eternity for his chance to take his spot on the grandest stage in athletics....

by Jesse Spector|The Olympics

|Thu Aug 05 2021

Flaws and all, no one can turn it on like Team USA

If you’re here, you’ve probably been nervous even before late last night. ...

by Jon Helmkamp|National Basketball Association

|Thu Aug 05 2021

We aren’t talking about Luka Dončić and Slovenia’s Olympic run enough

Do y’all even realize how abnormal this is? ...

by Jon Helmkamp|Luka Dončić

|Wed Aug 04 2021

Rubio is the latest example of how foreign NBA players are more comfortable on their national teams

Damian Lillard was right about some of these foreign NBA guys....

by Donovan Dooley|NBA

|Tue Aug 03 2021

The USWNT is put out of its misery

The U.S. wouldn’t have had much argument if they’d eaten it against the Dutch. And if Lieke Martens had hit the penalty that Jessie Fleming did today, instead of her tribute to English penalty taking, they probably would have. They can feel a little more hard done by losing this game to Canada, givi...

by Sam Fels|United States Soccer Federation

|Mon Aug 02 2021

America is determined to focus on the white women’s Olympic team that’s losing, instead of the Black women’s Olympic team that always wins

From the Confederacy to Jim Kelly’s Buffalo Bills teams in the early ’90s, and even the consistent coverage of Donald Trump and his supporters, throughout history, America has proven that it’s fascinated with losers… who are white....

by Carron J. Phillips|Olympics - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | Deadspinthe Olympics

|Mon Aug 02 2021

The IOC needs to leave Raven Saunders alone

The International Olympic Committee just needs to leave Raven Saunders alone....

by Donovan Dooley|Raven Saunders

|Mon Aug 02 2021

Sharing a gold medal might be the smartest move ever

You know what they say, teamwork makes the dream work....

by Olympics - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinDonovan Dooley|Sports

|Sun Aug 01 2021

Team USA’s road to gold won’t be easy

It’s win or go home for the United States men’s basketball team now. ...

by Donovan Dooley|Sports

|Sun Aug 01 2021

Hear me out: Snoozy Olympic golf should move to match play

I get it. Golf isn’t for everyone. Just like how some people consider baseball too slow for their viewing pleasure, golf suffers the same fate to an even larger extent. However, golf at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics has had even the most diehard golf fans falling asleep. ...

by Jesse Spector|Golf

|Sat Jul 31 2021

In the Olympics – and everywhere – trans women <i>are</i> women

You know, we don’t really have to keep doing this every time the situation comes up....

by Jesse Spector|Trans women

|Sat Jul 31 2021

Everyone out: There's a GOAT in the water

Katie Ledecky is now up to seven career Olympic gold medals after winning her signature event, the 800-meter freestyle, by 1.26 seconds over Australian rival Ariarne Titmus....

by Olympics - Sports News, Headlines & Highlights | DeadspinJesse Spector|Martin Brodeur

|Sun Aug 01 2021

People REALLY need to stop giving bad Simone Biles takes

Simone Biles, continuing to deal with the “twisties,” has taken herself out of the vault and uneven bars finals at the Olympics this weekend, with the floor and beam events remaining, to use an unfortunate expression, up in the air for the greatest gymnast of all time....

by Jesse Spector|Simone Biles

|Sat Jul 31 2021

Suni Lee steps in for Biles and everything she touches turns gold

An American gymnast has won the gold medal in the women’s individual all-around… again. For the last five years, since the 2016 Rio Games, it has been assumed that the gold medal would be returning to the United States, with Simone Biles, the greatest gymnast of all time, expected to do the honors f...

by Jon Helmkamp|Suni Lee

|Thu Jul 29 2021

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