It’s been a crazy year at Deadspin and an awful one for almost everyone in the world who’s not Jeff Bezos. Today, as I spend Thanksgiving away from family and friends due to COVID-19, I thought it would be a good idea for us to all express the small things we should be thankful for in this hellscape. Some are personal, some are staffwide. Also some are tongue-in-cheek, some are earnest. You, dear reader, get to decide which is which. Happy Thanksgiving! THE LIST: WiFi — where would we be without it this year? Kelly Loeffler — for giving us an endless stream of things to write about Laura Ingraham — for being a loyal reader with nothing but constructive criticism for us — Rich Lance Armstrong — because I got to use the word “dick” for the first time in my publish…
The former Everton midfielder Lee Carsley has been appointed as the England Under-21s head coach, with Ashley Cole as his assistant.
Carsley replaces Aidy Boothroyd, who left the role in April after five years when the team were knocked out of the European Under-21 championships.
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Cole’s appointment sees him take up his first major coaching job since retiring from playing in August 2019. The former England left-back will also continue his work in Chelsea’s academy.
Cole, who won 107 caps, said: “I am really happy to get this opportunity to support Lee and work with the best youngsters in the country. I …
What a night, what an equaliser from Fred, what a winner from Antony, in a tale of two Brazilians who downed Barcelona and lit up Old Trafford for Manchester United.
Fred blazed his equaliser home moments into the second half – off his right shin – and 10,000 volts jolted through the stadium because United had just turned frustration to joy. Whatever occurred from that juncture, Erik ten Hag’s men had already stunned Barça, informing Xavi’s side that they intended to keep on keeping their fans bouncing – and singing. Marcus Rashford and Antony raced in, and the congregation regaled them with the ditty that features “a knick-knack paddy whack” and ends in an invitation for (Manchester) “City to” expletive “off home”.
Four Premier League teams are still unbeaten heading into the sixth round of fixtures. Manchester City and Arsenal will surprise few and Fabian Hürzeler’s steadying of the Brighton ship is impressive. No one, however, expected Nottingham Forest to be part of this select group.
Usually summer is a time of transfer chaos at the City Ground as they contemplate a move for every name whispered into the wind but things have become a lot calmer in Forest’s third Premier League season – they have not even sacked a sporting director yet. There was a detailed strategy to recruitment that was not allowed to veer off course by high-profile players who do not fit the team’s structure turning up unannounced.
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Look at MLB attempting to improve its All Star production with 2004 John Cena-levels of swagger jacking. Remember the G-Unit spinner chain? It has gone from Cena’s WWE championship belt now to the Home Run Derby. The 2023 winner will receive a chain with a bejeweled spinning plus sign. One, this is further proof that no entity in sports is cooler than the creator of the turnover chain, the Miami Hurricanes football program. Second, a chain for the Home Run Derby champion is giving off real undercover police vibes. MLB is trying way too hard Not that MLB is using it to entrap its players, but the league is trying way too hard to be cool. Many of the league’s young players do wear chains when they play. The 2021 Chicago White Sox were icier than that city’s weather in February. That…
I like it, but the purple-and-gold color scheme makes me think this guy might just be a Laker fan who repurposed this shirt from a past Lakers-Celtics series. If that's the case, then good on him for maximizing the value of his insulting t-shirt. h/t Joshua …
Realizing the NHL season is over for a few months while watching the victorious team parade with the Stanley Cup really sucks, but each year the Hockey Night in Canada folks help add some sweet to that bitter with its annual montage of this season’s best Stanley Cup Playoffs moments. (The music this time around is “Lucky Man” by The Verve.) How does it stack up to previous years’ editions? [CBC] …
Dear Readers: If anyone in the NYC area would like to volunteer to care for our football-playing gerbil and frog this year, please contact me. Consider it an internship. Sort of. No, this is not a joke. …
The ESPN analyst's latest work is a fine addition to the telestrator dong genre. Note the Fauvist coloring and bold gestural abstraction. He has wisely avoided one of dong art's most shopworn clichés, bypassing the pendulous balls entirely. Further, the extraneous lines suggest motion, action, and they give the work a dynamism the genre so often lacks — a modernist's sense of lightness and flight, a dong in Brancusian space. Here is video of the artist at work. Oh, Doug. Your artistry has stolen our hearts as if they were a roommate's credit card. Tip of the beret to Michael B. for the screenshot and to Mike E. for the video. * * * * * Thank you for your continued support of Deadspin and dong art. Barry Petchesky will be here shortly. …
data-mm-id=”_cghvhig11″>In what will probably be the most shocking NFL news of the week, the Patriots and Josh Gordon will soon be parting ways. The team placed Gordon on the IR on Wednesday, and reports later emerged they planned to release the wideout once he's healthy. His time in New England is done. Given how murky the situation is, it's impossible to know exactly when Gordon will hit the open market. The Patriots seem likely to wait until after next week's trade deadline; if they release him now, he'll be free to sign with whoever, but if they wait until this time next week, he'll enter the waiver wire process. There are a lot of teams who would be interested in Gordon's services should that situation occur, but these four teams in particular should …