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Black coaches must recognize when they are Rooney Rule pawnsAre you helping yourself or are you helping them? That’s what every Black man in the NFL must ask themselves before accepting an interview for a head coaching position. The answer to the question is a personal one that affects many — just look at David Shaw....

Suddenly, the Lions, Eagles and Chiefs are staring at the panic buttonThere are four weeks remaining in the NFL regular season. I know what many of you are thinking: “Damn, I have to buy Christmas presents already. Maybe I shouldn’t have spent that weekend in Vegas at the end of the summer.” Credit cards are about to be burning the next couple of weeks, but this time ...

Week 13 NFL Takeaways: A Byemaggedon Sunday still had lots of spiceThere is no committee in the NFL that votes on the best team. In the pros, every result actually does matter. To qualify for the NFL’s 14 playoff spots, teams either have to finish atop a division or win enough games to get in as a wild card. While every game counts, there are some, even on the regu...

Simone Biles' return to competition needs to be applauded before her first routine begins

The GOAT is back. The best to ever appear on the floor, beam, vault, and uneven bars is returning to competition after nearly two years away from gymnastics. Simone Biles last competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics, which was of course delayed a year because of the pandemic. Her return to the sport in...

Leave Zion Williamson alone. Did Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka not teach us anything?

From college to the NBA, as long as we’ve been watching Zion Williamson play basketball, he’s never had a season that wasn’t impacted by an injury. Since his one-and-done year at Duke to his four seasons with the New Orleans Pelicans, the league’s most electrifying player still hasn’t been able to s...

Jacque Vaughn is Brooklyn’s next man up or their next sacrificial lamb

Mere hours before a nationally televised matchup against the New York Knicks, the Brooklyn Nets opted for a semblance of stability, or at least a stable shoulder to lean on, when they removed the interim tag from assistant coach Jacque Vaughn’s title....

Auburn has to hire one of these 3 college football coaches

He was so ass and everyone knew it. Auburn’s head football coach Bryan Harsin was fired about nine months too late on Monday morning, the finale to a terrible second season coaching the jewel of The Plains. The Tigers’ biggest accomplishment in 2022 was surviving an average Missouri team that should...

Do Americans really care about soccer? We’ll find out

The unbearable heat of Qatar pushed the FIFA World Cup out of the summer months for the first time in the tournament’s history. In 2022, the quadrennial footballing soccer showcase won’t crown a new champion before jackets come out of closets across America. The upcoming global event will run from N...

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We asked Leigh Steinberg if Myles Brennan will get to keep his NIL deals

After five years, a championship ring, two major injuries, three starts, an entry into the transfer portal, a coaching change, and an exit from the transfer portal, sixth-year LSU quarterback Myles Brennan announced on Monday that he would be stepping away from football permanently. ...

by Grace McDermott|

|Thu Aug 18 2022

This July 4th, let's celebrate athletes who revolutionized the game

On the 266th Independence Day in U.S. history, it’s a perfect time to look back at some of the radical revolutionaries in sports. Sometimes the path to success in athletics requires an innovative approach that changes the course of history. Let’s honor some of the luminaries and talents who channele...

by DJ Dunson|

|Mon Jul 04 2022

Team USA gymnasts file for $1 billion in restitution in wake of Larry Nassar abuse

Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, and McKayla Maroney are joined by about 90 other girls and women in seeking over $1 billion dollars from the FBI after the bureau’s bungled investigation into Larry Nassar’s decades of sexual abuse. Nassar, estimated to have assaulted over 300 victims over the course of hi...

by Grace McDermott|

|Fri Jun 10 2022

USWNT shows their support for transgender youth in Texas, following governor’s letter

The United States Women’s National Team was in Texas last night, which could not have come at a better time after news went viral from the state’s governor’s office....

by Stephen Knox|

|Thu Feb 24 2022

NBC gets the story it wants

The mystery of why NBC ponies up most countries’ defense budgets for the right to broadcast the Olympics still evades me. I know what the answers are. The ratings are worth it, which means the ad rates make it worthwhile, and that those who tune in aren’t really interested in the results of various ...

by Sam Fels|

|Wed Feb 09 2022

Top 10 sports moments of 2021

Happy New Years’ Eve everybody! I hope you’re getting ready to kiss 2021 goodbye and good riddance, but before we celebrate another revolution around the sun and kick off 2022, I want to take one last look at some cool moments from the past 365 days....

by Jon Hoefling|

|Fri Dec 31 2021

2021's most inspiring sports figures

Just a few short years ago, there was a push for athletes to be nothing more than mute entertainers. Luckily enough, they refused to “shut up” or “stick to” whatever sport they played....

by Carron J. Phillips|

|Sat Dec 25 2021

IDIOT OF THE YEAR 2021: Tony La Russa, Tommy Tuberville, every NFL referee, and other esteemed dummies

Happy holidays, you filthy animals, and welcome to Deadspin’s annual IDIOT OF THE YEAR extravaganza. Within these hallowed slides are 50 of the year’s least bearable dorks, whose transgressions range from “just kinda silly,” to “dangerously stupid,” to “Trevor Bauer.”...

by Thomas Laforgia|

|Wed Dec 22 2021

Doug Gottlieb is a moron

Doug Gottlieb has made some moronic statements in his time as a sports personality. There was that time he was the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament set with Charles Barkley, Greg Gumbel, Greg Anthony, Kenny Smith and decided to go with this joke live, on-air: “I don’t why you guys asked me,” Gottlie...

by Stephen Knox|

|Thu Dec 16 2021

Sorry, Sports Illustrated, but Time got it right — 2021 is the year of Simone Biles, not Tom Brady

Time Magazine has blown out Sports Illustrated in ranking its athlete of the year by a score of 45-10. Sports Illustrated decided to go with Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady as its “Sportsperson of the Year.’ It’s easy to see how they made that choice. He’s 44 years old, and still playing ...

by Stephen Knox|

|Thu Dec 09 2021

Giannis may seem like body armor dunking a basketball, but he has some of the same mental health issues as others

That singular focus on greatness, nothing else matters, no price is too steep, and there is always more sweat to be poured into the workspace... it turns out is not healthy. For one, where does an obsession like that even come from? For Giannis Antetokounmpo it came from a place of fear....

by Stephen Knox|

|Tue Nov 16 2021

Gold medalist Sunisa Lee targeted in anti-Asian incident

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by Grace McDermott|

|Fri Nov 12 2021

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