Some people are fans of the Tampa Bay Bucs. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Tampa Bay Bucs. This 2019 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. Your team: Tampa Bay Bucs. Your 2018 record: 5-11. This after starting a red hot 2-0. No playoff appearances since 2007. Only the Raiders allowed more points. Every game these Bucs played was, on average, a double-digit defeat. The highlight of last season for this beached outrigger of a franchise was when Ryan Fitzpatrick dressed up as DeSean Jackson. BAD BOY 4LYFE Honestly? Looked fucking great on him. A natural fit for America’s Ivy Bro. Almost enough to make you forget the time he tried to throw a forward pass from 10 yards past the line of scrimmage. Oh, can you NOT d…
Congratulations to all the wieners. Mark Halperin (and sidekick John Heilemann), BloombergJust about the only good thing you can say about Mark Halperin (and John Heilemann) is that they managed to swindle a lot of money from prickly billionaire Michael Bloomberg, who hired the two of them in 2014 for a reported million bucks a year (each) to perform insider politics coverage for his financial services news company that occasionally dabbles in other media and topics until the boss remembers they don’t make as much money as selling expensive financial news terminals to finance people. Halperin (and Heilemann) were let go at the end of this year, their flagship political gab show, Hey, We’re Talkin’ Politics Here!, an ignominious failure even by the low standards of cable news poli…
And once again, Roger Federer is out prematurely at a Grand Slam. Federer was upset in the 4th round at the U.S. Open tonight to Tommy Robredo, 7-6, 6-3, 6-4. It was really sad to watch. The mystique of Roger Federer is vanishing as each crushing Grand Slam loss mounts one over the next. On break points tonight, Federer was an astoundingly poor 2 of 16. On some of those break point chances, he was bad as he's ever looked—backhands hit listlessly into the net, forehands ugly and wide. "I missed so many opportunities," Federer said after the match. Thanks to a hours-long rain delay this afternoon, the Federer-Robredo match was sent over to Louis Armstrong, the U.S. Open's no. 2 court. It was the first time Federer had to play there in seven years. The stadium had …
Some people are fans of the Indianapolis Colts. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Indianapolis Colts. This 2012 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read the other Why Your Team Sucks 2012 previews here. 1. Finally, you really do suck. God, you have no idea how long I've been waiting for the Colts to regress back to being the bumbling flyover team they always had been before Peyton Manning arrived. Before Manning, the Colts were a perpetually shitty team whose lone defining quality was that they were located in the wrong town. They were a running indictment of how naked avarice and a blind drunk owner can diminish a sport. Even through the Manning years, it was hard to forget that the Baltimore Colts were uprooted in the dead of night and then se…
This is BALLS DEEP With Drew Magary (Balls® is a registered trademark and has been used with the expressed written consent of AJ Daulerio). It's gonna be like an SI Point After column, only with dick jokes. Drew's new book, "Men With Balls," featuring 100 percent all-new material, is available here. You can email him here. It's been graduation time all across the country lately, which means that star-fucking class chairs from every college around have invited whatever famous people they can throw $30,000 at to come on in and give some bullshit commencement speech in 12,000-degree heat. I graduated from college once. Our speaker was Supreme Court Justice Stephen BreyjesuschristI'mboredjusttypinghisname. I'm sure the guy was accomplished and had lots …
data-mm-id=”_c6z7u1hhw”>A fun game for Coastal elites to play is, "Would a Crowded Subway Train Bother Taking Notice of This?" Living in a bustling city quickly dulls the senses and almost completely eradicates surprise. The bizarre becomes the norm and it takes a special strain of oddness to even register. For instance, it's Ronnie Woo Woo in Chicago and the guy who wears a cat on his head around in SoHo in New York City. Your results may vary.But friends, we can all agree that seeing some person carrying around half a book and feverishly consuming its contents as if it were normal encroaches into See Something, Say Something territory. And yet, here's Alex Christofi, a senior editor at Oneworld News, gleefully tweeting out that he cuts his big books in half to mak…
data-mm-id=”_wnso5bdez”>Trevor Lane is a senior writer and host for Lakers Nation. He joined the Press Pass podcast to discuss his career path and the recent struggles of the Los Angeles Lakers. Topics include: how he started his first blog, making the jump from self-publishing to working at Silver Screen and Roll, learning on the job, juggling teaching while writing, why he decided to take the leap of faith now and go full-time as a writer, and what he's most excited about going forward now that he can dedicate all of his time to basketball. Lane also discussed how the Lakers can bounce back from their Game 1 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers, the impact of Alex Caruso, Anthony Davis at center, if we'll see a more aggressive LeBron James, his favorite Kobe Bryant memory, an…
data-mm-id=”_2qm8lab1w”>ESPN's much-discussed reshuffling of the Monday Night Football booth has reportedly finally come to reality. The trio of Steve Levy, Brian Griese, and Louis Riddick will finish up the football weekend and perform for you and all your rowdy friends. The media nerds interested in this type of thing seem to be in agreement that these choices will stabilize what's been a tumultuous spot for ESPN over the past few years. Mad Dog Chris Russo, however, will likely need some convincing. Unless his mood has changed from February, when he delivered an impassioned rant about the dearth of in-house play-by-play voices at the Worldwide Leader who could be paired with Tony Romo. Back when ESPN was courting him. Somehow this was not 14 years ago. Mad Dog Russo can�…
data-mm-id=”_ebbjpb540″>Russell Westbrook was traded to the Washington Wizards on Wednesday. Westbrook has worn zero on his jersey for his entire career. First for 11 seasons in Oklahoma City and then last year with the Houston Rockets. Since no one currently wears #0 on the Wizards roster, you would assume that would be his number, but maybe not. And it has nothing to do with Westbrook's preference. The number hasn't been used by Washington since Gilbert Arenas last wore it on January 5, 2010. It's not super weird that no one has worn number zero, but what is strange is this tweet from Chase Hughes of NBC Sports Washington that makes it sound like the Wizards unofficially retired the jersey because it was Arenas' number. Regarding Russell Westbrook and the No. 0. O…
data-mm-id=”_aur26uk15″>We've discussed this at length before, but C.B. Bucknor is one of the worst umpires in Major League Baseball. He was up to his old tricks again Tuesday night, making a horrible call that led to chaos in a game. Bucknor's terrible miss on a check swing call got two people ejected during the Seattle Mariners-New York Yankees game. Mariners catcher Tom Murphy stepped into the box to face Yankees righty Michael King to open the bottom of the sixth inning. King uncorked a 1-1 sweeper that was off the plate, and Murphy slightly offered at it. The Yankees appealed to Bucknor at first base to see if Murphy had swung, and Bucknor said he did. On replay, it was clear Murphy held up. In fact it wasn't close. Murphy couldn't believe it and immediately ex…