Month: October 2024

Some people are fans of the Jacksonville Jaguars. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Jacksonville Jaguars. This 2018 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. Your team: Jacksonville Jaguars. Your 2017 record: 10-6. You had one job, Jacksonville. One fucking job. You had a 10-point lead against the Patriots in the fourth quarter of the AFC title game. Gronk was out. Blake Bortles was, miraculously, playing like an actual professional quarterback. Myles Jack stripped Dion Lewis for the ball. All you had to do to beat the Patriots was NOT do what you did. Jesus fucking Christ. Even the Atlanta Falcons have shrewder halftime adjustments than you people. Was there a single soul out there who thought the Jaguars would wrap up…

Finish up your work week by browsing the 16 most popular videos on Deadspin in 2015. As in years past, videos that are Not Safe For Work dominate the list. What a contradiction! This Is Why NFL Star Greg Hardy Was Arrested For Assaulting His Ex-Girlfriend Barefoot and frightened, Nicole Holder walked as fast as she could through the darkness, and the moment she saw the cops she ran. She headed west on Fifth Street toward North Church, away from the Charlotte., N.C., apartment of Greg Hardy, a star defensive end then with the NFL’s Carolina Panthers. Minutes earlier he had, she said, thrown her against a tile bathtub wall, tossed her on a futon covered in assault rifles, and choked her until she told him to “kill me so I don’t have to.” Fight Between Bad Softball Dads Ends In Blood…

Of all Nick Kyrgios’s many  many many many tantrums, the one he unleashed today at the Italian Open was his most over-the-top display yet. On the heels of a brutally honest interview with tennis writer Ben Rothenberg, in which Kyrgios admitted winning tennis matches doesn’t make him happy, that he does the least amount of work on tour, and that all he wants to do is be at home playing basketball and video games, it’s becoming increasingly hard to ignore the fact that, despite his obvious talent, maybe Kyrgios simply doesn’t want to be a pro tennis player. Today’s meltdown started early in the third set of his second-round match against 76th-ranked Norwegian Casper Ruud when Kyrgios’s serve was broken. Kyrgios began yelling at people in the stands for allegedly moving an…

He picked a fight with Charlie Pierce. He started Grantland. He scooped up our pal Katie Baker. He shamelessly hopped on the Bruins bandwagon. He told ESPN to go fuck itself. He expressed regrets about Grantland before it even launched. He almost poached the guy who's now running our little corner of the Internet. He hired Charlie Pierce. And he's been writing long pieces stuffed with references to Boston sports and movies for far longer than we thought. But is The Sports Fella a Deadspin Hall of Famer? That's for you to decide. Cast your vote below. The polls will stay open through 11:59 p.m. (EST) on Christmas Day. The threshold for induction is 75 percent of the vote. Other nominees:
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data-mm-id=”_15eruo4es”>Randy Dobnak was the losing pitcher of record in today's New York Yankees – Minnesota Twins game. Dobnak gave up four runs on six hits in two innings before he was yanked. Oh, and he drove for Uber which everyone knows now because Yankees fans chanted it and now people are mad online. Here's the video from the Yes Network Twiter. Calling for a ride already? Game just started. pic.twitter.com/RPo0wgFVly— YES Network (@YESNetwork) October 5, 2019This is a pretty complicated one. There is nothing offensive about this chant, but the intention behind it was to embarrass or offend so that he would be distracted and play poorly. I mean, that's the point of chanting something at an opposing player, right? Some people were then bothered that ESPN used a …

data-mm-id=”_uuht7wqar”>Most teams know who they are and where their season is going by Week 13 of the NFL season. A handful of teams will be looking forward to the playoffs, but the rest are looking towards the offseason, where decisions await that will alter the immediate and long-term future of each franchise. There was a lot of coaching turnover over this past offseason, and it sure looks like it'll be more of the same this offseason. These four coaches in particular sealed their fates with bad losses in Week 13, and will be looking for new jobs sooner rather than later. 1. Dan Quinn, Atlanta Falcons New Orleans Saints v Atlanta Falcons / Kevin C. Cox/Getty ImagesFans have been clamoring for Quinn's firing for much of the season. The Falcons are talented on both sides of…

data-mm-id=”_gsrr8w1o2″>Yannick Ngakoue is one of the league's top young pass rushers down in Jacksonville. He's also supposed to be a free agent this offseason. Should Ngakoue hit the open market, he'd have plenty of suitors, and seemed quite likely to do so after tweeting out that he has no plans to sign a long-term deal with the Jaguars. Minutes after doing so, Adam Schefter reported that the Jags were going to use the franchise tag on Ngakoue. The Jaguars are aware I no longer have interest in signing a long term contract in Jacksonville. Duval, I love you and gave you guys everything I got. I’m thankful for the journey and look forward to continuing my career elsewhere. -91— Yannick Ngakoue (@YannickNgakoue) March 2, 2020Jacksonville Jaguars will use their fra…

data-mm-id=”_v4zzuxhky”>The KT Wiz have stumbled out of the gates early on, bringing a 1-4 record into today's tilt with the juggernaut NC Dinos, and a major part of the problem has been an unreliable bullpen. A bloated 8.25 ERA through five games is an undeniable red flag that something is very, very wrong. Things got even bleaker moments ago as KT allowed the Dinos to author a comeback victory thanks to an inability to finish strong. Closer Rhee Dae-eun put forth his second consecutive disappointing outing, surrendering a two-out, game-tying dinger for yet another blown save opportunity. Through four games, the righty has struggled with his command and has a 10.39 ERA to show for it. We're heading to extra innings after this dinger!6 | NC Dinos (-122)6 | KT Wiz Suwon (-108)…

data-mm-id=”_hcbvl4d74″>Fruit is, by its nature, a delicate flower. It must be treated with care and respect in order to grow to maturity and sweeten to a point of deliciousness. Consumers take an intimate, hands-on approach when selecting their natural sweets from the supermarket, revealing a primal connection. There's great symbolism to the often complicated order of operations require to prepare fruit for consumption. The peeling of a banana. The surgery of a pineapple. The fastidious detail involved in removing skin from an orange. With all that in mind, it's clear that revolutionary notions in the market of fruit-based ideas often fall on deaf, closed ears. But folks, I have one and it's going to blow your mind. You don't need to cut the tops off your strawberr…