Month: October 2024

I was asleep last year when Warren Beatty, who last made a good movie before the advent of the steam engine, and Faye Dunaway botched the Best Picture announcement for Moonlight. I have very few regrets about this because I just watched it on YouTube the next day and because, if you go by the analytics, sleeping through the Oscars is always the correct decision. The data is ironclad. In fact, it’s an even shrewder move to skip the Oscars this year, because there’s no way they’ll fuck up as badly, and as amusingly, as they did last year. The Academy will install 67 different fail-safe triggers to ensure that the Best Picture announcement proceeds according to custom. Once more, it will go back to being a forgettable capstone to a frantic blitz of important awards presented at the ve…

Some people are fans of the Chicago Bears. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Chicago Bears. This 2015 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Your team: Chicago Bears. Your 2014 record: 5-11. Let’s find out how that tastes! When we last left the Bears, they were crumbling under “QB guru” and man-who-is-mysteriously-hanging-out-at-a-playground-by-himself Marc Trestman. Turns out that hiring a lameass CFL coach isn’t the unorthodox masterstroke the Bears thought it was! WHAT A STUNNING TURN OF EVENTS. You might also remember that the Bears OC last season was Aaron Kromer, who was caught anonymously shit-talking Jay Cutler to the NFL Network, and then had to tearfully apologize to the team after the fact. Kyle Shanahan laughs at your inability to…

Failed journalist and wretched lawyer Dave Donovan announced today that he's leaving his job as Chief Operating Officer of the Redskins to return to the law firm whence he came (and where, ostensibly, lawyers can actually convince clients not to file dumbass lawsuits). Donovan attributes his decision to "personal reasons." Lame. Personal reasons could mean anything. They could mean that Dan Snyder and Donovan disagreed over a legal matter. They could mean that things got weird after a game of adult Twister. Who knows? You may remember Donovan as the man who, in his role as general counsel for the Redskins, sent a silly letter to the New York-based investment firm that manages the parent company of the Washington City Paper. (Translation: he sent a letter to people who are…

• "There was a sign during Gameday this morning – "Charlie Weis: The Devil Lovechild of Jabba the Hut @ Rosie O'Donnell." – Lingering Bursitis (Ouch. That's just mean.) • Here we are, Separation Saturday. Too bad my girlfriend is taking it literally. I'd just like to ask all you Dead-spinners (or is it Dead-heads?) out there to send some good thoughts her way. I love you, Anna. – inimyaudi (Come on, Anna… Seperation Saturday doesn't mean you seperate from your man. It means you seperate your legs for him. Get with the program, sweetheart.) • A lesbian, a senile old man, and Jimmy Dykes. Is this the Iowa-Iowa State game or is Regis Philbin on The View? – Newbrander1 (Roughly 723 of you out there are absolutely convinced that Pam Ward is a l…

data-mm-id=”_7tggrsq8d”>The Los Angeles Rams and Los Angeles Chargers will be sharing stadium in Inglewood, California starting next season but apparently all is not well in the relationship. A report Saturday night suggests the two sides may be feuding, with the Rams particularly upset. Fred Roggin of NBCLA is reporting there is friction in the relationship between the two franchises. The Rams apparently don't believe the Chargers are fulfilling their end of the agreement the two teams signed.Multiple sources confirm there is friction in the #Rams #Chargers Inglewood Stadium relationship and the Chargers may not be pulling their share. This is a serious issue. The story Monday at noon @AM570LASports— Fred Roggin (@FredNBCLA) September 22, 2019This is happens to be the least s…

data-mm-id=”_x0uawn23k”>Major League Baseball is hosting their yearly owners meeting in Arlington, Texas this year. The meetings come in the midst of quite a controversy in baseball right now as the investigation into the Houston Astros' cheating scandal continues. Things are a bit different at the meetings this year. Multiple reporters have said that there is a police presence at the hotel where the owners are staying, and seem to be tasked with keeping these owners away from reporters. Just to be clear: There are police officers stationed in the lobby of the hotel working as security, and when they got the sense Jim Crane did not want to talk, they cut in to the media scrum and escorted Crane to a staircase leading to the level where meetings are taking place.— Jeff Passan (@J…

data-mm-id=”_dkpp1e0fn”>After the resounding success of The Match II featuring Phil Mickelson, Tiger Woods, Tom Brady, and Peyton Manning, this may only be the beginning. Mickelson said on Wednesday that he believes this could be a viable format going forward and he wants to see more iterations of The Match. This naturally begs the question: who do we want to see on the course, assuming Woods and Mickelson are consistent members of the group? Brady had some great back-and-forth over the course of the match, and Manning got his jabs in early on, but both are pretty PR-cognizant guys. With live mics on everybody, we could get some excellent entertainment with the right pairing. Who could join Tiger and Phil to make the best possible television?Tiger Woods/Charles Barkley vs. Phil Mickels…

data-mm-id=”_jjpw6bds5″>The Chicago Bears have declined their fifth-year option on Mitchell Trubkisky's contract, showing just how far the 25-year-old quarterback has fallen. Last summer, the Bears were all-in on Trubisky, sure that he was the key to their future. Roughly 10 months later, he's being pushed aside. The Bears shocked everyone during the 2017 NFL Draft when they traded up from the third pick to No. 2 and selected Trubisky out of North Carolina. In doing so, they passed on future stars Patrick Mahomes and Deshaun Watson. Instead they got Trubisky, who has been a mess. Even his 2018 season that offered so much hope was a bit of a facade. In 2018, Trubisky completed 66.6 percent of his passes for 3,223 yards, with 24 touchdowns and 12 interceptions. But while his To…

data-mm-id=”_lz25zlh4d”>In the middle of his second season with the Brooklyn Nets, D'Angelo Russell tweeted, "Control what you can control 2019, 20, 21."“I started living by that,” Russell told The Big Lead. In the ninth game of that 2018 campaign, Russell was benched during the entire fourth quarter in a loss against the Houston Rockets. Sitting for the final period was not an uncommon occurrence for Russell that year. “I couldn’t control that,” Russell said. “I’m not going to let it break me or bring me down. You see players nowadays, younger players in the league go through that same adversity in their careers and they let it break them. I try to send that message of, 'Man, you gotta play the game, dog.'"  Russell missed 34 games due to i…