Wouldn’t be a Deadspin article without some random moral crusade that’s completely unrelated to the topic that drew readers in!

What a smug douche. Just because you disagree with someone, you think its OK to walk up to the on the street, start filming them unsolicited and swear at them? Have some damn decorum and act like adults.

Highly recommend reading “Where Men Win Glory,” which provides a full-length, nuanced and nonpoliticized look at Tillman’s life, decision to enlist, and death. Good read and also puts the man’s life and death in context very well.

Chuck Knoblauch

Joe Flacco won a Supr Bowl

A counter point — I spent some time looking at Week 2 and Week 1 results to try to see if these low-scoring games are bad offenses, or good defenses. I also watched the games live and saw some terrible offensive play.

I don’t think sports cannot be beat, I assume that for myself (I have a fairly busy job and don’t have time or a statistical background to really dig in to odds and find an edge), I cannot beat bookmakers over the long term. I make my bets based on gut feelings because it makes games more fun to watch, and try to…

Why would players who play in the same league matter for team chemistry and continuity? I don’t think that England benefits at all from the fact that the national team players are spread out around 5-6 clubs. There are only really 3 countries that have (1) a high number of world class players, (2) a high…

The only year of Messi’s prime that he has had a national team capable of winning the World Cup was 2014. He was by far Argentina’s best player and took them to the finals, where they lost 1-0 to a Germany team. It’s not realistic to say that not winning the World Cup is a failure by Messi — it has been many, many…

I know that parlaying a bunch of heavy favorites is a bad bet, but yet again, every bet is a bad bet, so I make it anyway because it makes it fun to watch some of those blow out games.

National team success is overrated as a metric for an individual player’s success. An individual player has relatively little influence at the national team level — most national teams are a hastily thrown together collective of players with very little experience playing together and limited practice time. Relevant…

How is that possible when Deadspin only has 1 talented writer?

Exactly, parlays work when there is correlation, but it is very rare to find a meaningful edge in multiple games.

Why no love for color rush?

I don’t think PFF is necessarily “armchair analysts”. It’s former players and coaches who know the game pretty well, enough to know what they’re looking at. Maybe not as well as elite NFL coaches, but fairly well. The stuff is nuanced but it’s not exactly rocket science, and there’s plenty of people who played or…

What amazes me is not just that Federer and Nadal have continued to dominate the sport in 2017, but that they have done it in completely different ways.

Exactly, e-sports should have their own competitions. Those competitions should be far, far away from real athletes and normal people. Preferably on an island somewhere with no return flights.

Even if Equifax recommends the site, they just got hit with a huge data breach — why would we send them essentially our full name and SSN (as noted above, the first 3 digits are easily determinable if you know where and when someone was born) in an unsecure form?

I went to the site out of curiosity, not intending to actually enter my social info - it immediately got flagged by my browser as a phishing site seeking to get people to submit personal data. If you want to protect yourself, sign up for ID theft protection (including insurance) and monitor your credit reports. It’s…

If Bell wants to find a team willing to pay him money, he needs to look beyond New England. Belichick has never paid for an elite free agent running back, he’s fine using a running-back-by-committee approach and always has been.