deadspin.com | Eric Blum

US Sports Reporter at DailyMail.com. Formerly of Deadspin, Columbia Daily Tribune, Odessa American, and The Evening Sun

Will the Texas Rangers please <i>PLEASE</i> knock off the Astros?

Was it inevitable? One won the American League West, while the other led it for most of the season and was forced to go the wild-card route to make it to this stage. The Texas Rangers and Houston Astros share a state and are bitter rivals and will face each other in the postseason for the first time...

by Eric Blum|Pete Rose

|Thu Oct 12 2023

In a move that shocks no one, Kansas barely gets a slap on the wrist from the NCAA

Did anyone expect a different result? ...

by Eric Blum|the NCAA

|Thu Oct 12 2023

Tuesday night should’ve been only celebratory for this Texas Rangers fan. It wasn’t

Last night should’ve been pure, unadulterated joy. I haven’t been shy when it comes to the Texas Rangers and writing about my favorite baseball team. It swept the 101-win Orioles and advanced to the American League Championship Series for the first time in a dozen years. I was a sophomore in college...

by Eric Blum|Sports

|Wed Oct 11 2023

LeBron is heading into uncharted territory

For anyone under the age of 30, it’s difficult to remember an NBA without LeBron James. ...

by Eric Blum|Kevin Garnett

|Mon Oct 09 2023

Lexi Thompson’s PGA Tour debut comes with a chance at history and to pierce through golf’s sexism

In the modern history of golf, no female has made a cut on a PGA Tour event. Only Babe Didrikson Zaharias has done it ever, playing all four rounds at the 1945 Phoenix Open, and Tucson Open. And as Lexi Thompson becomes the seventh woman to play in a PGA Tour event next week, on a sponsor’s invitati...

by Eric Blum|PGA Tour

|Thu Oct 05 2023

Tampa Bay Rays fans have plenty of reasons to take a WFH day — even during the playoffs

Call it an all-around epic fail. ...

by Eric Blum|Tampa Bay Rays

|Wed Oct 04 2023

The Tampa Bay Rays-Texas Rangers series winner will advance to the World Series

Here’s your de facto American League Championship Series. Sorry to those in Baltimore, your luck will run out despite being undervalued the entire season. Postseason baseball is a different juggernaut. The Toronto Blue Jays and Minnesota Twins just don’t have the firepower to keep up. And Houston co...

by Eric Blum|Tampa Bay Rays

|Tue Oct 03 2023

deadspin.com | Eric BlumThe Commanders shouldn’t lose until they play the Eagles again

What is it about when Washington plays in Philadelphia? They have an even record at Lincoln Financial Field over the last four years and I get that’s not impressive by itself. The Eagles have been one of the NFL’s best teams over the last few seasons and dominant against the NFC. The public meeting ...

by Eric Blum|Donovan McNabb

|Tue Oct 03 2023

Taylor Swift-Travis Kelce and other high profile athlete-celebrity romances that make you go, 'Hmmm'

Even if you’re famous, having someone to cuddle with at night is still a priority. It’s harder in the public eye to keep who your bedmate is on the down low, and in some cases, wondering how these pairs came together is more interesting than their relationship itself. Have we seen a more notorious a...

by Eric Blum|Travis Kelce

|Sat Sep 30 2023

Curt Schilling is having a Hall of Fame week at being human scum

If making headlines for acting as inhumanely as possible could be a goal in life, Curt Schilling is having an impeccable week. ...

by Eric Blum|Curt Schilling

|Thu Sep 28 2023

Using 'Nazi' as a play call is inexplicable and has no place in sports

The shocking part wasn’t hearing that an Ohio high school football coach used the word “Nazi” to describe a play call over the weekend. It wasn’t shocking it took an opposing team from a community that according to the latest survey from the Jewish Federation of Cleveland, published in 2011, was aro...

by Eric Blum|Sports

|Thu Sep 28 2023

Travis Kelce breaks down his Taylor Swift-centric Sunday. Was it enchanting to meet her?

Travis Kelce brought this on himself and he knows that. That was his insistence, at least, on the podcast he hosts with his brother. On this week’s episode of New Heights, Jason Kelce and the most-talked-about bachelor in America dove deep into how the Kansas City Chiefs tight end went from a Hall o...

by Eric Blum|Kelce

|Wed Sep 27 2023

deadspin.com | Eric BlumKim Mulkey’s willingness to share her recent health scare is good for college sports

On the court, there’s no doubt as to what Kim Mulkey is capable of. She’s one of the best in women’s basketball, college sports, and probably sports in general. That’s why she signed a 10-year, $36-million contract with LSU recently. Off the court, her reluctance to comment on Brittney Griner’s deta...

by Eric Blum|Kim Mulkey

|Tue Sep 26 2023

How running an NFL team is like running a restaurant | Chef Emeril Lagasse

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by Eric Blum|Emeril Lagasse

|Mon Sep 25 2023

Saluting Sean Doolittle, one of the good ones

There’s a fixation in sports media and society at large to focus on the negative. When you’re watching the nightly news, they’ll never lead with how a crossing guard helped hundreds of kids not get hit by a car. It’ll be about the accident up the street. And you can bet they’ll run the tape of somet...

by Eric Blum|Sean Doolittle

|Fri Sep 22 2023

MLB's final 10 days in the American League will be pure chaos

Entering the penultimate weekend of baseball’s regular season, so much is in flux. The calming part is the National League. Every division race is wrapped up and the Wild Card will become a matter of which pair of teams are the odd ones out between the Arizona Diamondbacks, Chicago Cubs, Miami Marli...

by Eric Blum|MLB

|Fri Sep 22 2023

Novak Djokovic is tennis' unquestioned GOAT. Is there anyone who could catch up to him?

It isn’t a question as to who the male tennis GOAT is anymore. In recent years Novak Djokovic’s almost-robotic dominance as he continues to age has pushed him ahead of his contemporaries and predecessors. One of Djokovic’s greatest challengers to the crown conceded the throne recently when Rafael Na...

by Eric Blum|Novak Djokovic

|Thu Sep 21 2023

Boston College hit with hazing scandal

Boston College has placed its men’s and women’s swimming and diving teams on an indefinite suspension after the university’s leadership found there was rampant hazing in the program, the school announced Wednesday. ...

by Eric Blum|Hazing

|Wed Sep 20 2023

Welcome to the Pac-12 funeral procession

Stating “we’ve never seen something like this before” in sports is usually overused. ...

by Eric Blum|George Kliavkoff

|Wed Sep 20 2023

Sports fandom can be the dumbest thing sometimes

It’s an odd tightrope to walk in the teeter-totter that is perception versus reality. Crystal-clear communication makes the division between the two less murky, if not pristine. And maybe I’m too glued to my phone, or the overall appeal of social media has made me think that America is angrier than ...

by Eric Blum|Nick McKellar

|Wed Sep 20 2023

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