Month: October 2024

Good afternoon, basketball viewers! It’s time for the second part of our very on-time and definitely not late at all 2017 NBA playoffs preview blog post. Here’s what you need to know about the first-round series that are scheduled to begin today, presented in the order the games will start. Washington Wizards (4) vs. Atlanta Hawks (5)Photo credit: Rob Carr/ [object Object]   What time does the game start?1:00 p.m., Eastern, on TNT. What is the deal with these teams?After a dismally embarrassing 2015-16 campaign, and a 2-8 start to this one that had some fans (me) wanting to throw the franchise into the toilet, the Wizards just wrapped up their third-best regular season by winning percentage since the franchise left Baltimore in 1973 (the competition is not very fierce; mostly th…

We're nearing the summit of this year's tourney, and the venerable spirits of Assumption Bulltron, Godfrey Sithole, Crescent Dragonwagon, and Doby Chrotchtangle have each found favor with a champion. These four, this exalted 16th of the starting field, are all that remain as our competition enters its final stages. One will emerge as the 2014 Name of the Year. Top-seeded Curvaceous Bass—whose surname is pronounced like the fish, according to a commenter—won the right to represent Bulltron when she defeated upstart #10 seed Dequarium Lumpkin. We figured she was a champ from the get-go, but we think that about all our high-seeded names, and the Bulltron was the only regional to go chalk this year. The Sithole regional saw the surprising defeat of the titanic Dr. Loki Skyliz…

Greetings, Deadspin tennis fans! It's that time of year again! A time when roughneck New Yorkers shift their sports attention away from Jets preseason, Joba Chamberlain pitch counts and the New York Mets Wing of Hospital for Special Surgery to a little tennis tournament in Queens, where they have no choice but to care about things like Rafael Nadal's knees, swarming Serbians and Juan Martin Del Potro. Andre Agassi is to be honored during a ceremony on opening night, but there's plenty of fodder beyond the return of the Day-Glo one. Here are nine story lines to keep a (hawk) eye on during the Open this year: Federer.
Can anyone honestly stop Roger Federer? After a tearful loss to Nadal in the Australian Open final, the Swiss swordsman won the French Open (without having to…

Hey, you! Wanna test your prognosticating knowledge again the best of the best? Yes? THEN FUCK YOU. This is the DeadspinPants Party pool. No smartypants allowed. There's no place for aggressive steakhead retardery in the 2010 Deadspin NFL Pants Party Pool. No, I'm forming this group solely so I can see what kind of team names you folks can come up with. Who will be this year's BONER IN YOUR BUTT? It could be you! Either way, we'll have a bit of fun together, then we'll wake up in the morning and look frantically for an open shower, trying to wash away what happened. Anyway, join the group here, or search DSPantsParty2010 if you have trouble. I don't think you need a password, but who the hell knows if I did this right. Make your picks every week. And we A…

data-mm-id=”_a7wlhooko”>On Monday night, there was a great disturbance in The Force…but enough about the New York Jets. Despite the lopsided 33-0 win courtesy of the New England Patriots, Monday Night Football provided the best form of halftime show: the final trailer for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker. The ninth episodic installment of the Star Wars saga is set to be released on December 20, bringing the saga of the Skywalker family to what fans hope will be a thrilling conclusion. After several dozen viewings of the last sneak peak, we laughed, we cried, and boy, do we have questions.Is this REALLY the last Star Wars movie?Rise of Skywalker has kept it light on the marketing, but what glimpses we've seen insist that this is "the end" of the saga begun back in 1977.…

data-mm-id=”_14dstk71v”>You gotta give Giants coach Pat Shurmur one thing: his game plans the last two weeks have been spot on. He's completely screwed the Giants in the process by finally realizing how to coach. But as they say, better late than never, unless you're a Giants fan. Then you're furious. After all, Shurmur has been a terrible coach for the Giants and most assuredly will be fired at the end of the season. But he made sure to screw the Giants one last time on his way out. The Giants were 2-11 entering Week 15 and had the No. 2 pick in the 2020 NFL Draft within their grasp. Dreams of picking Ohio State DE Chase Young, arguably the best defensive prospect coming out of college since Jadeveon Clowney, were dancing in Giants fan's heads. But now, after winni…

data-mm-id=”_q0sf4o1z1″>The NCAA Tournament is ramping up and really hitting its stride. Most people have already seen their hopes of putting together a perfect bracket go by the wayside. There's still plenty of chances to make some sweet extra cash, though, with some smart bets on the action to come. Perusing CBS' weekend slate of action, I feel like I'm seeing the board quite well. Here are some straight-up picks to consider:Saturday, noon: 1982 National Championship: North Carolina vs. GeorgetownJohn Thompson has the ultimate weapon in the middle with Patrick Ewing and Sleepy Floyd has woken up big time in the tournament. But there's just something about Dean Smith's duo young wingman Michael Jordan. Could be big things in his future. It's early yet it …

data-mm-id=”_lh9as6nax”>Ryan Dempster spent 16 years in the Major Leagues, more than half of them in Chicago with the Cubs. Upon winning a World Series with Boston in his final season he embarked on a second act that those who paid attention to him during pitching days probably could have predicted: serving as an analyst for MLB Network and Marquee Sports Network, where he hosts Off The Mound, a half-hour late night-style talk show. Dempster jumped on a oft-interrupted Zoom with The Big Lead to talk about all things on and off the field, pausing long enough for a humble blogger to repeatedly ask small children to keep it down a bit. Kyle Koster: Your career pitching record is 132-133. How much does it eat at you knowing that getting those 87 saves cost you a .500 mark?Ryan Dempster: I …

data-mm-id=”_sowdhhmgj”>Kanye West emerged from his social media silence earlier this week to tweet about his new Yeezy shoe line dropping soon. They look like Crocs, but that's neither here nor there. On the heels of those tweets came the announcement of a new album called God's Country, and that he plans to release a new song today, June 29. And I just cannot bring myself to care. I love rap. I have since I stumbled upon Jay-Z's Reasonable Doubt as a 14-year-old who had a lot of commuting time on his hands after volunteering to go to a high school 30 minutes away. My discovery of Kanye West came soon after that. I was stunned at how good My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was. Yeezus confused me initially but I grew to love it, and one of my big life regrets remains not…