Month: October 2024

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.” The IDIOT OF THE YEAR selections ahead were voted on by an expert team of Deadspin staffers, whose first round of balloting was thrown out after they’d unanimously picked themselves No. 1. With that conflict of interest loophole sewn up, the team tried again. This list is the product of that scrupulous process. The qualities considered include, but are not limited to: Volume/Wrongness Coefficient: Look, nobody cares if you’re wildly off the mark about everything in private. But please don’t shout abo…

The biggest event on hockey’s international calendar, and one of the biggest events of every winter games, will not happen next year. The news disappoints players, who want to play, and fans, who want them to play. But it makes owners happy! The NHL will not participate in the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, and the reason is, of course, money. The Olympics are less than 11 months away, and the NHL is following through on the threat it’s been making for a long time, so I guess this isn’t a huge surprise. It still really, really sucks, though. (The league leaked the news through Sportsnet, and did so now “so it doesn’t overshadow the playoffs.”) NHL owners hate disrupting the season for three weeks while the best players head overseas for the games. They h…

The Oscars are Sunday! Wednesday, to help you out with your pool, Tim Grierson made predictions in all the technical categories; yesterday, Drew Magary yelled a lot. Today, we both unveil our picks for the eight major categories: you know, the ones you actually care about. Let's get to it.
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American Sniper, Jacob Hall

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Whiplash, Damien Chazelle
Grierson: Harvey Weinstein, the king of the shameless Oscar campaign, has been pushing hard for his company's The Imitation Game with ads that declare, "Honor the Man. Honor the Film." He means the movie's real-life subject, Alan Turing, but I'm betting the onl…

New York Rangers forward Filip Chytil was helped off the ice at practice Friday morning, a day after he returned to the team as he recovers from a suspected head injury, multiple outlets reported. Chytil was observed down on the ice for several minutes at the team's optional morning skate, though the reason he was sent to the ice was not clear. He left the Madison Square Garden ice with assistance from teammates Zac Jones and Jake Leschyshyn and the Rangers training staff. Chytil, 24, was placed on injured reserve after sustaining an upper-body injury on Nov. 2 in a win over the Hurricanes when he collided with Carolina star Sebastian Aho. He had six assists through 10 contests to start the season. At practice Thursday, he wore a red, non-contact practice jersey and mostly worke…

Robert Lewandowski came on for Bayern Munich at halftime in a match they were losing 1-0 to Wolfsburg. Five minutes and 40 seconds into his appearance, his first goal hit the back of the net. Almost exactly nine minutes later, his fifth goal did the same. This man is on fire. You can find his first three goals in the video above. The first one he didn’t have to do much for, barely turning a Thomas Müller pass/shot into the net with an outstretched left foot. Before the Bayern crowd was done chanting his name in celebration of that one, he had already scored again. A couple minutes later he was again wide open in front of the net, and though it took three shots to get the ball over the line, he had a hat trick in just over 180 seconds. For his fourth, he threw himself into a deflected…

data-mm-id=”_v3oa71mig”>Play someone big, they said. You’ll move up in the polls, they said.Such is the battle cry toward the University of Central Florida’s Golden Knights. College football’s most dominant program in the new century’s second decade, based on numbers alone, resides not in Clemson or Tuscaloosa but the most magical place on Earth.Just over a half hour’s drive from Disney World is where you’ll find UCF, which has been the college football personification of Charles Dickens’ famous opening line from A Tale of Two Cities. The past ten years have featured two conferences (Conference USA to the AAC), an imperfect 0-12 mark, and three “New Year’s Six” bowl appearances, two of which ended in victory. The Knights have won 28 of their last 29 games overall, …

data-mm-id=”_bewlpo98e”>With one swing of the helmet, Myles Garrett went from being known as the Browns former No. 1 overall pick to the most abhorred man in the NFL. Not since Vontaze Burfict has the general NFL community consensus been so unified: suspend this man for the rest of the season.While they are right, and Garrett does deserve to face a lengthy suspension, this one dirty play isn't the only one that needs to be taken into consideration. Much like Vontaze Burfict, the former Raiders and Bengals linebacker who was suspended for the rest of this season for his dirty hit on a defenseless receiver and all the other dirty hits he's made, Garrett has a history of questionable plays this year. It ain't pretty. Myles Garrett, 2019 dirty playsWeek 1: Punched Titans TE …

data-mm-id=”_x59vgfall”>Houston Astros owner Jim Crane apologized for the team's cheating and stealing scandalThursday morning. Crane may have thought this was damage control, but media members aren't buying it. Here are the early reactions: What a massive amount of risk to take and tremendous amount of work to do for something that "didn't impact the game." https://t.co/wIq52vd40y— Albert Breer (@AlbertBreer) February 13, 2020What an amazing opinion. This is like the people who say taking steroids to get bigger, faster and stronger don’t cause more HRs. If it doesn’t help, why are you cheating? https://t.co/4jbqy27jPQ— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) February 13, 2020“What we didn’t expect is for Jim Crane to come out and treat us all like we are too st…

data-mm-id=”_hd0ba370l”>Joe Burrow looks like he could be good. That's a positive sign for the Cincinnati Bengals and their No. 1 draft pick. Burrow threw for 316 yards and the first three touchdown passes of his NFL career on Thursday night in a reasonably close game against the Cleveland Browns. He also threw 60 passes, which is kind of rare. Joe Burrow is the first rookie since 1950 with 60+ pass attempts and zero interceptions in a game— NFL Research (@NFLResearch) September 18, 2020They noted the accomplishment(?) near the end of the Thursday Night Football broadcast and my ears perked up when I heard that Burrow had thrown the most passes by a rookie quarterback since Chris Weinke. Way back in 2001, Weinke, a rookie out of Florida State, completed 36 of 63 passes for 223 y…