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Spanish police confiscate pickaxes, clubs at Champions League gameSpanish police were able to stop a potentially massive and dangerous brawl from breaking out during a Champions League match between Real Sociedad and Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday. ...

The Oakland A’s want to build the Sydney Opera HouseLeave it to the A’s and John Fisher to be three months late on the renderings for a ballpark that still feels like it has a better chance of being built in Narnia than it does in Vegas, and then to have it leak out a day after they meant it to:...

Have the Premier League’s financial rules kept Newcastle from being Newcastle?While the Premier League’s Profit and Sustainability Rules might have lost a shade or two off their teeth with the news today that Everton have had their 10-point penalty reduced to six on appeal (though they have another charge to dodge), that doesn’t mean they’re not having an effect. The desolate...

We are all lying to ourselves about Man City

It’s at this point in the Premier League season where fans of any competitor of Manchester City’s starts to pile up the lies to themselves. Especially after watching City never really get out of second gear to see off Everton, 2-0, and even more so in trying to ignore the symbolism in Erling Haaland...

Deadspin predicts the Super Bowl LVIII winner

A Detroit Lions-Baltimore Ravens Super Bowl was the matchup with all the storylines and drama. Instead, we’re getting a rematch of Super Bowl LIV. This is the third Super Bowl the Chiefs have been in since that game. And this season we’ve been inundated with Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce coverage — and ...

Virgil van Dijk and Alisson Becker saved Arsenal’s season

We spend a lot of time trying to unearth the little tactical nugget, or superlative performance from one player, or decoding the 3D art that most soccer matches at the highest level usually are to figure out why one team won or lost and why this team is higher in the table than the other. But someti...

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...

Hey, let's give Chelsea a swift kicking while they are down

Far be it from me to kick Chelsea while they’re down after a 4-1 fustigation at the hands of Liverpool . . . wait, that’s precisely what I’d do! So let’s get to it! It’ll be fun!...

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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|

|Tue Jan 30 2024

Jurgen Klopp and the importance of Now

“It’ll never get better than this.”...

by Sam Fels|

|Mon Jan 29 2024

Soccer’s had load management for some time — now there just might be more of it

As if on cue, one of soccer’s biggest stars on one of the world’s biggest clubs went down with injury in the Africa Cup of Nations. While there’s not a diagnosis yet, Mohamed Salah limped off just before the half in Egypt’s draw against Ghana on Thursday. This comes a day after Kylian Mbappé warned ...

by Sean Beckwith|

|Fri Jan 19 2024

Gio Reyna knows he needs to justify the noise

The funny thing about Gio Reyna, and more to the point, all the noise about him – the controversy with his family and Gregg Berhalter, the anticipation of any appearance with the national team, the confidence that he’s the country’s most talented player – is that it is built on such a tiny foundatio...

by Sam Fels|

|Thu Jan 18 2024

Mbappe bemoans lack of 'load management' in European soccer

Ligue 1 and the NBA are two leagues that usually don’t go together, but French soccer superstar Kylian Mbappé is worried that European soccer is starting to mimic professional basketball in one very specific way....

by Mackenzie Meaney|

|Thu Jan 18 2024

Without Mo Salah, Liverpool could be screwed

I have nightmares that I’ll be seeing this in my sleep for the next decade:...

by Sam Fels|

|Tue Jan 02 2024

This week in sports: Patrick Mahomes' WR is a moron; Rick DeSantis does Rick DeSantis; Man United do themselves in

While it’s hard to resist the temptation to point out noticing when a team that has Matt Nagy anywhere near it is melting down, because I know it oh, so well, the Kansas City Chiefs have bigger problems than that. When everyone is blaming the refs over a totally correct call, it’s pretty obvious the...

by Deadspin Bot|

|Sat Dec 16 2023

The Champions League group stage went out with a bang

The Champions League group stage spent most of its time getting maligned, some of that in bad faith from the biggest clubs who just wanted to mold the competition to their whims. But their main argument held a lot of water, which was that it lacked drama or suspense, as for the most part the top clu...

by Sam Fels|

|Thu Dec 14 2023

Manchester United didn't even show up

They could have at least tried. ...

by Sam Fels|

|Wed Dec 13 2023

Liverpool uses smoke, mirrors and its depth to get back on top of the Premier League table

Following the Premier League this year, it feels that the term “Mentality Monsters” should be emblazoned on the front of Liverpool’s shirts instead of their Standard Chartered sponsorship. Jurgen Klopp coined that term after the hallucination of the 4-0 comeback over Barcelona in 2019, Steve Kerr co...

by Sam Fels|

|Mon Dec 11 2023

Inter Miami inks noted biter Luis Suarez to deal

Hungry for more star power, Inter Miami is reportedly finalizing a one-year deal with Uruguayan forward Luis Suarez. The deal was first reported by the Miami Herald....

by Mackenzie Meaney|

|Tue Dec 05 2023

It's tough to watch, but PSG is doing the right thing

On the one hand, the architects of this PSG team probably should be applauded for actually taking the time to step back and try to create a team instead of collecting players. Messi left, Neymar decamped for Saudi Arabia and PSG didn’t chase whatever shiny thing they could find to plug the holes, no...

by Sam Fels|

|Wed Nov 29 2023

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