Kanye West living out a sports fan’s dream as he finishes album

Well, it looks like Kanye West is doing Kanye West things again. This time, the shenanigans are taking place in Georgia.Read more...

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The flat cap has caused NHL GMs to get even dumber

While the lead story of the NHL’s weekend is — and should be — Montreal GM Marc Bergevin ignoring all decency, logic, and the player’s own wishes to draft alleged sex criminal Logan Mailloux, that doesn’t mean it was the only story. The NHL is in a strange place these days, with the salary cap staying flat for at…Read more...

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Maybe it’s time to lower our expectations of Team USA’s men’s basketball team

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SEE IT: Olympic skateboarder falls nuts first into rail

You probably don’t know the name Vinko Bogataj, but if you’re a sports fan of a certain age, you’ve seen him in action more times than you can count.Read more...

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Team USA women debunk 3x3 basketball ‘adjustment period’ myth

There’s a lot of talk about how 3x3 basketball is different from regular basketball, and it absolutely is. It’s faster-paced, more physical, harder to play defense — lots of stuff. There’s also a funny sense that the best 5-on-5 basketball players in the world might have trouble at 3x3, and need an adjustment period…Read more...

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Deadspin fixes NBA free agency — Part 1: Point Guards

Free agency, the part many of you care about most, begins the evening of August 2.Read more...

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Team USA men’s basketball begins gold medal chase with revenge on their minds

Amid all the chaos, and now finally fully rostered, does Team USA have enough to win the gold medal? The short answer is yes, but as we know regarding international play, chemistry is much more of a deciding factor than the talent of your roster alone. Read more...

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Have you heard the one about the doctor who didn’t get vaxxed and ruined his country’s Olympics?

The Olympics are always full of surprises, and right at the beginning of the Tokyo Games, there’s already a stunner: the first vaccine-shunning idiot to ruin things for a bunch of other people isn’t an American.Read more...

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What to make of Rodgers’ and Adams’ cryptic IG stories

Aaron Rodgers has been making Packers’ fans sweat for months now, whether it be through expressing his displeasure with the organization while hosting Jeopardy or through his inaction during the most pivotal moments of this offseason. Rodgers has made cryptic comment after cryptic comment attempting to avoid any sort…Read more...

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Sad spectacle of NHL stepping on yet another rake is exhibit 999 that it’s time to abolish the draft

​​Had Logan Mailloux been picked in the second round of the NHL draft, as ESPN’s Greg Wyshynski reported was likely to have happened, it still would have been gross. It just would have slipped into the second day of the draft, sparing hockey some embarrassment that even though the admitted sex offender asked that he…Read more...

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