Three weeks into the NFL season we’re starting to get a far better idea of which offenses we can trust, ones we need to avoid, and which players are starting to earn more usage in those offenses.
Now it’s time to turn that information into cold, hard cash with my first touchdown scorer NFL picks for Week 3!
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It is a week since Liverpool ended their 30-year title drought and as they prepare to face Manchester City as champions, I am yet to unhook myself from the intoxicating red rush of eulogising articles, videos, podcasts and social media content I have been mainlining ever since. If it is going to be another 30 years until the next title win I am taking in everything, even grainy footage of Jürgen Klopp gegenpressing the hell out of a dance floor like a man six tequilas into his daughter’s wedding reception.
I should point out that, Like the vast majority of Liverpool’s estimated 700 million supporters around the world, I am not a Liverpudlian. Indeed, I grew up in Wollongong, New South Wales, and now live in Melbourne, Victoria. About as…
Tammy Abraham has praised José Mourinho for breathing belief back into his game and described the Roma manager as “one of the best coaches on the planet”, as the Portuguese prepares to take charge of his first game in England since his sacking by Tottenham last year.
Mourinho will attempt to guide the Serie A club to a first‑leg victory against his former protege, the Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers, in the Europa Conference League semi-finals. Abraham will hope to add to his 26-goal tally at the King Power Stadium on Thursday, when the Leicester striker Jamie Vardy could make his first start since sustaining a niggling knee injury last month.
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Eight semi-professional clubs are one step closer to a place in the A-League Men’s competition after Football Australia announced the make-up of a national second division starting in 2025.
The new league will consist of at least 10 teams and eight foundation participants were named on Monday – former National Soccer League clubs South Melbourne, Preston Lions, Sydney Olympic, Sydney United, Marconi Stallions, Wollongong Wolves and New South Wales premiers APIA Leichhardt, join Avondale, who won the Victorian state title for the first time in September.
Between two and four additional teams will be selected early next year “as part of refined application process”, according to FA. The clubs will form part of…
The MLB Draft Combine starts Tuesday in Phoenix but you can put together your top picks for the mid-July draft without dissecting the festivities.The top of the draft is filled with elite college batters and two superb college hurlers. There's also a probable high school position player in the top 10.Of course, no matter how impressive the prospect, there's no guarantee the player will pan out.After all, it was easy to tell Stephen Strasburg should be the No. 1 overall pick in 2009 but Mike Trout wasn't selected until No. 25. Guys named Donavan Tate, Tony Sanchez and Matt Hobgood went 3, 4 and 5 overall.Here's a half-dozen players to know and another on the rise:Oregon State 2B Travis BazzanaThe left-handed hitter is viewed as the favorite to go No. 1 overall to the Cl…
We had a lot of fun with the Pete Rose "I'm sorry" autographed baseball story from Tuesday, thanks, as usual, to our commenters. You folks took our eight-yard slant pass over the middle and turned it into an 80-yard TD run, if you'll excuse a football analogy in the midst of a baseball post. For those one or two of you just checking in on this tale, Pete Rose at one time signed about 300 baseballs with the words "I'm sorry I bet on baseball — Pete Rose", and was subsequently shocked — shocked — to learn that some unscrupulous dealer was set to auction them without his knowledge. Rose told ESPN's Stephen A. Smith on Monday that those balls were never meant to be sold. Rose is much too classy to profit from his misdeeds in baseball. Um, righ…
The last time we checked in on freshman Vanderbilt pitcher Kumar Rocker, he had just vanquished the vile Duke Blue Devils with a 19-strikeout no-hitter that also featured some well-earned shit-talking. That start saved Vanderbilt from postseason elimination, and now they are facing off against Michigan in a three-game series for the title. Vandy lost Game 1, and so in last night’s Game 2 they once again turned to Rocker and asked him to save the day. Rocker did not let his team down. Through 6.1 innings he held Michigan to three hits and one run while striking out 11 and walking two. The most thrilling part of Kumar’s outing was how he started it, striking out five of the first six batters he faced: After the game, which Vanderbilt won 4-1, Michigan head coach Erik Bakich couldn’…
Tonight at 9 p.m., a former Secretary of State will take on a bloviating game-show racist for the chance to be our president. And we’ll be liveblogging every goddamn minute of it. How long will it take before Lester Holt breaks down in tears? Is Hillary Clinton properly hydrated? And will Donald Trump finally pull his penis out on stage? Unfortunately, we’ll find out soon. So please, join us. No one should have to go through this alone. …
Some people are fans of the Miami Dolphins. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Miami Dolphins. This 2013 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the 2013 NFL previews so far right here. Your team: Miami Dolphins Your 2012 record: 7-9. Wow, they won seven games? That's actually kind of impressive. Your coach: Joe Philbin, who looks like a lobbyist for the corn industry. Your offensive coordinator is Mike Sherman. If your passing game is clicking, Mike Sherman will run. If your running game is clicking, Mike Sherman will pass. And if both are clicking, Mike Sherman will elect to punt. Keeps the defense on their toes. I can't imagine how much collective sleep Dolphins players get in meetings whenever Sherman and Philbin take the …
The Westminster Dog Show at Madison Square Garden finished up yesterday. We dispatched intrepid reporter Barry Petchesky to cover the show, give us the lay of the land and clock some bitches. Barry Petchesky is a freelance writer in New York City, and he plans to use this as a clip, which is rather pathetic. We now hand the mic to him. Monday was the 40th anniversary of Madison Square Garden, which opened with a USO show. My friend Zach and I were discussing how to work that into a joke, and he suggested using the phrase "let slip the dogs of war." A Shakespeare reference? I reminded him that this is Deadspin, where dick jokes are the pinnacle of humor. "Oh," he said, thinking for a moment. "How about saying that Bob Hope probably pulled a ton of bitches that n…