Month: October 2024

Deadspin chief tennis correspondent and resident deucebag Dylan Stableford will be covering the U.S. Open throughout the fortnight. Here are some key questions heading into the tennis year's last — and best — Grand Slam. Is Caroline Wozniacki "ready to get on top"? The Yale football team certainly thinks so. Wozniacki, who reached the 2009 final in her billowing Stella McCartney dress at the tender age of 19, comes into the Open having won back-to-back titles in Montreal and New Haven, where she has a career record of 13-0 and is treated like Ivy League royalty. And while Wozniacki, who has yet to win a Grand Slam, doesn't have a huge weapon, she's one of those players you hate playing against because she gets to every ball. ("Wozniacki has a little bi…

data-mm-id=”_vmzhm2nsm”>The Baltimore Ravens have looked like a sluggish and upset-prone team early on against the Tennessee Titans. Lamar Jackson is without Mark Ingram and facing a 14-point deficit. If he's to lead the No. 1 seed back to victory, the first step will be staying in the game. That ability was tested by a late — and uncalled hit — by Jeffery Simmons.No flag … OK NFL good work ?? pic.twitter.com/m0Q3BCSCuB— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) January 12, 2020Jackson immediately looked for a flag that never came. This hit, as well the one delivered by Jadeveon Clowney on Carson Wentz last week, would have earned targeting penalties and ejections in college.They earned nothing in the NFL. That's not to say either was dirty, but for a league preaching player safety…

data-mm-id=”_vyv039z6z”>We are all trapped inside our homes for the foreseeable future. ESPN, a sports channel, is completely without sports for the same undetermined amount of time. Every day we're both scrambling to fill the hours. The time has come for ESPN to turn back the clock to a time when ratings where high, online poker was legal, and we somehow has a less problematic person in the White House. The time has come for ESPN to break out the World Series of Poker broadcasts that started the poker boom.Chris Moneymaker and ESPN's broadcast of the 2003 WSOP was America at i's most optimistic. A guy turned $39 into $2.5 million. This is inspiration we need right now. We need to be reminded that anything is possible, assuming anyone has $39 left when this is all over. …

data-mm-id=”_mqfepqrw7″>The game of quarterback musical chairs has slowed down since the frenetic pace of last week. Tom Brady went to the Bucs, Philip Rivers to the Colts, Nick Foles to the Bears and Teddy Bridgewater to the Panthers. Now, Jameis Winston is a free agent, and Cam Newton and Andy Dalton are probably available, either for a late-round draft pick or perhaps eventually outright release. As far as Winston goes, Adam Schefter doesn't see him being a starter "on paper" right now:Schefter doesn't envision the Chargers or Patriots — two teams who would appear on the outside to be quarterback needy; the Chargers have Tyrod Taylor while the Patriots have Jarrett Stidham and Brian Hoyer — as suitors for him. Therefore, he finds himself in a situation similar …

data-mm-id=”_deog59jt6″>Willie Mays finally broke through on May 28, 1951 and he did it in style, against a future Hall of Famer.A 20-year-old rookie center fielder, Mays was called up to the New York Giants in 1951 and went hitless in his first 12 at bats. It was not the start anyone had envisioned for his career after he tore up the minor leagues. But on May 28 everything changed. The Giants hosted the Boston Braves that day, and face Warren Spahn was on the hill for the visiting team. Mays got his chance early, as he was batting third and got to dig in with two outs in the first inning. Mays didn't just get a hit off Spahn, he blasted a home run over the left field roof at the Polo Grounds. A legend was born. Mays obviously found his footing in the big leagues after that. He w…

data-mm-id=”_drsz52ucy”>In what I would categorize as unexpected news, Amazon announced today it was partnering up with Bethesda Studios to make a television series based on the popular Fallout video game franchise. Here's the announcement trailer, which is modeled after the opening title sequence of the games. Two of the creators of Westworld will be working on the project. Amazon Studios announced a Fallout TV series, with Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy serving as producers.Please Stand By: https://t.co/mB6a15AYvA pic.twitter.com/AGwTqr5OxV— IGN (@IGN) July 2, 2020For those not in the know, the Fallout series is based in a future where the United States has been ravaged by nuclear disaster. The main character wakes up in a "vault," one of several hun…

data-mm-id=”_1rw9tbrun”>The MVP hype train left the station early for several elite NFL quarterbacks already. But while Russell Wilson, Patrick Mahomes, Lamar Jackson, Aaron Rodgers and Kyler Murray have all gotten the recognition they deserve for their outstanding play so far this season, there's another quarterback shining in relative obscurity who's earned, at least, a hype motorcade.It's time we discuss Josh Allen's MVP case, which is absurd considering we're only two games into the 2020 NFL season. But if other people on this site are going to do it for Wilson, I'm not going to miss the opportunity to jump on the Allen bandwagon. Not because he's been the best player in the NFL this year. In my opinion, you have to give that honor to Wilson as it…