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Lionel Messi coming to MLS has had the effect you’d thinkOne of the bonuses for both MLS and Apple TV having an exclusive streaming deal is that they’re not forced to tell us how it’s going. Or they can decide what they want to say. Without usual ratings to gauge how the revolutionary deal is fairing, we’re usually left guessing. There were whispers that ...

Give me 'Roundball Rock' or give me deathProfessional sports leagues are the big winners of the streaming wars because live sports seem to be the only thing that still moves the ratings needle. As long as the production value remains intact, the “boom-goes-the-dynamite” guy isn’t announcing, and the stream actually streams, I could care le...

Stefon Diggs has little to apologize for after loss to BengalsAfter an abrupt end to a Super Bowl-or-bust season, Buffalo Bills’ wide receiver Stefon Diggs broke his silence Monday night on social media, responding to his apparent frustration with quarterback Josh Allen and quick attempts to leave the stadium moments after his team’s 27-10 AFC Divisional Round...

Apple’s MLS channel begins to take shape, we’re just not sure what shape

The MLS season always comes out of the weeds in a surprise fashion, mostly due to its placing its start right when the business end of the European season begins (Champions League knockout rounds, closing stages of domestic seasons, etc.). It’s only 44 days until MLS starts its season, and though th...

Make the Heisman Trophy more than the 'Best QB' award it’s become

The Heisman Trophy has been college football’s most prestigious award since University of Chicago halfback Jay Berwanger was awarded the first stiff-armed prototype in 1935. Since then, Chicago has dumped its football program and the award has morphed into a Quarterback of the Year award. That lazin...

The ‘keep your composure!’ 0-2 NFL team rankings

The panic button is my favorite concept in NFL media. Is it red? Where is it? Is it behind glass? Who gets to push it? Why are we pushing it? What happens when it’s pushed?...

MLS becomes the first to go full streaming

Well, someone was going to do it. ...

Can we please just watch the ballgame?

Major League Baseball made this exclusive deal with Apple for Friday night games, and Mets-Nationals was the very first one, Max Scherzer’s debut for New York (which the Mets won 7-3), against his old team, featuring JUAN SOTO, whom the broadcast gushed over as constantly as he gushed over Apple – b...

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For MLB players, streaming deal is rotten Apple

MLB’s new streaming deal with Apple is why the Major League Baseball Players Association needs to scrap its entire bargaining strategy and go for a salary cap....

by Jesse Spector|

|Tue Mar 08 2022

The Jarrett Allen social media jokes were funny, but his real life teammates were wrong for making him buy that phone

iShameThe personalities are the most fun part about the NBA, but not only because they’re flashy or frequently appear in gossip blogs. Those players are fun, but it’s different types of personalities in the league that make it work....

by Stephen Knox|

|Wed Feb 23 2022

Eli (Bad) Apple’s unwarranted hubris has him running his mouth like a 24-hour 7-11

If the NFL had an award for Cockiest Player of the Year Without Any Good Reason, then Cincinnati Bengals cornerback Eli Apple would have taken it home at this year’s NFL Honors award ceremony. Apple has had quite the bit to say during the Bengals’ surprising run to the Super Bowl for a player with z...

by Criss Partee|

|Sun Feb 13 2022

GOP feels nothing for women who worked for Dan Snyder

The House Committee on Oversight and Reform hosted a roundtable hearing today regarding the ongoing sexual harassment and sexist culture at the Washington Commanders (formerly the Washington Football Team, and before that, a racist slur), organization under the leadership of owner Dan Snyder. Five w...

by Grace McDermott|

|Thu Feb 03 2022

Changes are coming to the NFL scouting combine that are long overdue

Today is one of those days in which the NFL has made a good decision. It doesn’t happen often. The decision to add an extra game to the schedule in a sport that can cause brain damage, during a world-wide pandemic, might be a short term financial win, but it’s making the product worse and is ethical...

by Stephen Knox|

|Wed Jan 05 2022

Kansas fullback converts two-point conversion into $1,000 worth of Applebee’s

Before this season, if you made a catch like the one Jared Casey did last weekend to clinch the Kansas Jayhawks victory at Texas in overtime, you’d probably be a hero on campus for a few weeks. Your family would fawn over you at Thanksgiving, your parents wouldn’t shut up to their neighbors about th...

by Grace McDermott|

|Fri Nov 19 2021

The Braves are in the World Series, and the Knicks are winning in prime time: Someone bring me my damn Tamagotchi

It was throwback night in professional sports on Tuesday. The evening began with a nationally televised prime time Knicks game at Madison Square Garden on TNT… and a half hour after that started, the Atlanta Braves played in their first World Series game in 22 years. Both teams won, but that wasn’t ...

by Stephen Knox|

|Wed Oct 27 2021

Idiots of the Month: The worst of June

Welcome to another action-packed edition of Deadspin’s IDIOT OF THE MONTH! From anti-vax nonsense to “sticky stuff” stupidity to Florida, we’re your one-stop shop for schadenfreude in and around the world of professional athletics. So, with that in mind, let’s offer a quick round of applause to one ...

by Thomas Laforgia|

|Thu Jul 01 2021

The biggest problem facing Jets rookie Zach Wilson right now is… his mom

Move over LaVar Ball, there’s a new MPP “most problematic parent” in sports, and her son hasn’t even taken a snap in the NFL yet....

by Jon Hoefling|

|Thu May 13 2021

You Can Pry My Headphone Jack From My Cold Dead Hands

I purchased my last iPhone in the summer of 2016 and I’m still using it. But this blog is not a boast about how I am resisting consumerism and striking a blow against Apple’s dedication to planned obsolescence. I’m not bragging about how I haven’t (yet) dropped my phone in the toilet. The purchase d...

by Dvora Meyers|

|Thu Nov 29 2018

Ed Oliver Gets In Heated Argument With Major Applewhite Over Coat [Update]

If there was any doubt that University of Houston’s Ed Oliver was going to leave the program for the NFL, it was squashed on Thursday night. Coach Major Applewhite told Oliver that he wasn’t allowed to wear a specific heavy black coat on the sideline during the team’s game against Tulane because the...

by Gabe Fernandez|

|Fri Nov 16 2018

Did You Hear About This? The Giants Have Two Players Named Eli, And They Traded The Wrong Freakin' One!

Today, the New York Giants traded Eli ... cornerback Eli Apple, that is. Ah, did you think it’d be their once-great, now-disintegrating quarterback Eli Manning? Don’t you look like an ass, now! It was in fact their underwhelming defensive player, who’s going to the Saints for some late picks....

by Samer Kalaf|

|Tue Oct 23 2018

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