Hopefully this leads to more girls discovering rugby.

I played football at a Division III college in Minnesota. My sophomore year I was an overweight kicker and reserve tight end. We were playing one of our conference rivals and I was all fired up. Our cheerleaders had made a banner for us to run through before the game, so I sprinted towards the banner, yelling…

But how did VAR fuck things up?

Yes, this is getting old and tired. I really can’t understand the mindset that we should just be happy with shitty referee decisions and missed calls and that football dogma that easily remediated human error is something that should be lived with, if not celebrated.

“Everything about sports media is so embarrassing”

I hope this books includes some soul-searching about the kind of parenting and apparent enablement that led not only to the murder of Jennifer Martel, but also led to Remy’s other two children being arrested for assault.

The farther I get from my decision to not pursue a PhD in order to teach, the better I feel about it.

Both this and the article published in the aftermath of the injury feel like concern trolling from Deadspin. These aren’t kids being manipulated by “rub some dirt on it and walk it off” high school or even college coaches. These are grown-ass men who have both agency and the means to get the information needed to make …

I don’t have any sympathy for baseball management, but this is a better signing than, say, Chris Davis at 7 years, $160 million

Don’t forget about the immortal Ron Necciai, who once struck out 27 batters in some hot Appalachian League action back in 1952. If ole Ron can do it, there’s no reason that today’s highly paid hurlers can’t. (Aside from the fact that no one will be allowed to throw the bare minimum of 81 pitches necessary to…

Site I’ve never heard of acquired by shitty site I’ve never heard of.

“Barring a Washington Generals–style solution in which they become the first all-road NFL team since the 1920s, the Raiders have become the thing the NFL overlords never conceived.”

Albert, the advantage idea is fantastic. It’s how rugby is officiated—a referee will spot a penalty in open play and if play can continue, he’ll say advantage and then the game goes on for awhile (sometimes a couple of minutes if the defense is being cynical down by the goal line) to see if the attacking team gets an…

“Fitzgerald is the best player in franchise history.”

So Deadspin is serving up Stupid Takes to counter the Hot Take Industrial Complex?

Fair fucks to Peter for doing this to an outlet that... hasn’t been kind to him over the years.

Drew, best wishes for a speedy recovery. Your columns are a bright spot in weeks filled with shitty news about the shitty people running our country, so they are greatly missed.

Reminds me of the guy who got breast implants in the 90s to win a $100,000 bet. I believe he was supposed to keep his D cups for a year, but he apparently kept them for much longer:
http://www.odditycentral.com/pics/man-who-got-breast-implants-to-win-bet-finally-takes-them-out-20-years-later.html

Your coverage of domestic violence in sports is second-to-none. That said, I see a common thread in each of your stories—dissatisfaction with the leagues’ policies, investigations, and/or implementations.