Some people are fans of the New York Giants. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New York Giants. This 2015 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Your team: New York Giants. Your 2014 record: 6-10. If you are the New York Giants and you didn’t win a Super Bowl, you probably went 6-10. FUN FACT: The Giants have won more than 12 games once in the last 30 years. They are the most accomplished mediocre franchise in sports history. Your coach: “ I don’t trust the lady in GPS, I don’t trust her, because they don’t send you the right way. I hit the button and I go ‘Park Ridge, New Jersey.’ And she comes back on, she’s giving me directions. So now I figure out where I am. I hit the thing and I said ‘Thank you very much, I know exactly wher…
Back in 2009, the Republic of Ireland missed out on a World Cup invitation courtesy of a Thierry Henry handball. That didn't go over very well. You know what did go over well? Armenian Valeri Aleksanyan's cheeky own-goal in the 42nd minute of today's Euro qualifying match, for it helped kept the Republic alive in its quest to participate for the Intracontinental Title next year. Since they finished second in their group, they'll be among eight sides vying next month for four remaining slots. Now for the downside: A second yellow card and injury means they might be without top forwards Kevin Doyle and Robbie Keane for qualifying. Rep. of Ireland/Armenia [Sky Sports] Ireland beat unlucky Armenia to make playoffs [YahooUK!] …
I actually can't tell how big of a story this is. When I see the words "Bonds" and "steroids" and a headline, I can try to read it, but in my head, it will all just sound like the teacher in Charlie Brown. But it's the top headline on ESPN.com right now, so it might be worth a mention. Victor Conte is alleged to have told an associate of his that Barry Bonds, despite his claims to the contrary, knew exactly what he was doing when he used "the cream" and "the clear." They weren't just random substances from a friend, it wasn't something he wasn't sure of; he knew. At least, that's what Conte said, according to some other steroid-loving chemist named Patrick Arnold. So, in order to believe that Bonds did in fact know…
data-mm-id=”_er7jzjgro”>The Los Angeles Chargers are in their third season in LA and yet they still can't fill their tiny soccer stadium home. On Sunday it was clear that if there's not a massive contingent of opposing fans, Dignity Health Sports Park won't get filled. The Houston Texans didn't travel particularly well to LA this week, and that left a ton of empty seats in the stands. The game will likely be listed as a "sellout." That's only because ticket brokers likely bought season ticket packages in hopes of selling them off to opposing fans. They clearly didn't unload them this week. There was a ton of red in the stands (obviously Texans fans) but also swaths of empty seats all afternoon. Check out some crowd shots below.This might represen…
data-mm-id=”_dwicfyx3u”>The Detroit Pistons are a non-entity for the 12th straight year. Their latest humiliation came in the form of a lopsided loss to the Bulls last night in Chicago. At 4-10, playoff hope is dwindling. And that hope's high end was low. Best-case secnario for this team was to make it to the No. 6 spot in the East and perhaps pull off a first-round upset. That's at least something for a franchise that hasn't advanced to the second round since 2009. Detroit is no closer to fielding a truly competitive team now than its been at any point during this dreadful stretch. This is despite trotting out two borderline elite players in Blake Griffin and Andre Drummond. Saddled with bad contracts and a lackluster supporting cast, options are pretty limited. They�…
data-mm-id=”_tr14p1i7p”>Throw a dart in any direction and it's likely to hit the following general opinion: It would be devastatingly bad for Major League Baseball to miss out on a 2020 season due to monetary squabbles. It's a fairly safe thing to say in normal times. The stench of 1994 still hangs in the air. Yet one would think that several months of unprecedented uncertainty would spark higher levels of humility in predicting the future. With that in mind, it's okay to admit that none of us have any idea if conducting a baseball season (or basketball or football) will ultimately prove to be a net-positive or net-negative. The essential up-front caveat: all leagues should be trying their hardest to resume if and only if the safety precautions make the risk worth the re…
data-mm-id=”_6r4rhyojk”>The latest episodes of The Last Dance looked back at the early 90's Bulls – Knicks rivalry. Chicago ended New York's season during each year of the Bulls' initial back-to-back-to-back NBA Championships run. In 1993 the Knicks blew a 2-0 lead. To this day, Charles Oakley remains bitter about the loss. In the New York Post, Oakley blamed Patrick Ewing and Pat Riley for the loss. Riley failed to adjust to the Bulls while Ewing failed to pass out of double teams.”“Patrick, at the end of the game, he’d get double-teamed,’’ Oakley told The Post. “He’d shoot fadeaways on double-teams and that hurt us as a team.””Oakley also defended his good friend Michael Jordan's decision to go to Atlantic City between games and was even able to turn…
data-mm-id=”_dtw8f4xt1″>I've been thinking about Seann William Scott a lot lately, as does anyone who was alive and consuming entertainment around the turn of the century. Fresh off writing about Eugene Levy and American Pie a few days ago, I caught a few minutes of American Wedding on Starz. I don't know if "holds up" is the right thing to say about an American Pie movie from 2012, but if you were ever in American Pie's target audience, I'm not sure you can deny you still feel a little at home in that world. And the center of that era, without a doubt in my mind, is Seann William Scott. This man was the early 2000s. He starred alongside Tom Green and Johnny Knoxville and Dwyane Johnson when he was still mostly just The Rock. In the actual year 2000, he …
data-mm-id=”_f8p4iff0f”>The Milwaukee Bucks chose to boycott Game 5 of their first-round playoff series against the Orlando Magic on Wednesday to protest the shooting of Jacob Blake. After they did so, players from around the NBA reacted on Twitter with messages of support.LeBron James led the charge, coming out with a forceful message:FUCK THIS MAN!!!! WE DEMAND CHANGE. SICK OF IT— LeBron James (@KingJames) August 26, 2020Many others joined in:WE DEMAND CHANGE! SALUTE @Bucks ✊????— Donovan Mitchell (@spidadmitchell) August 26, 2020WE WANT CHANGE!!— Josh Hart (@joshhart) August 26, 2020respect ✊?— Ja Morant (@JaMorant) August 26, 2020this shit gotta stop ‼️— Ja Morant (@JaMorant) August 26, 2020WE DEMAND JUSTICE!!!— Jamal Murray (@BeMore27) August 26, 2020We have th…
data-mm-id=”_yhi04nsus”>Did you wake up this morning and wonder what Kyrie Irving has been up to? Neither did I, but the wonderful world of Twitter on Wednesday gave us an answer regardless!For someone who complains a lot about the media, it sure seems like Kyrie enjoys throwing ridiculous soundbites out in the universe for people like me to wonder aloud about That whole dance resumed today since he went more or less radio silent after he got mad that someone in the Nets group chat leaked his thoughts about the NBA bubble in Orlando over the summer. Appearing on Kevin Durant's new podcast titled The ETC's With Kevin Durant that premiered earlier this week, Kyrie kicked everything off by saying now that he's in Brooklyn with Durant, he's finally playing with somebody…