LeBron James creates the 40K club, which he’ll populate alone for a long time
The next player to eclipse 40,000 points in the regular season will have a chance at the title of the NBA’s GOAT simply because the […]
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Gary Sheffield claims MLB tried to silence anti-steroid stance
Former slugger Gary Sheffield claims MLB tried to force him out of the sport in the 1990s after he spoke out about the growing steroid […]
How implicated MLB PED users have fared in Hall of Fame voting
Photo: Getty Images Is Gary Sheffield more Hall of Fame worthy than Alex Rodriguez, despite the fact that both are inextricably linked to performing enhancing […]
Who but the Yankees would honor Henry Kissinger?
Herny Kissinger (r.) with fellow alleged criminal Richard Nixon.Photo: Getty Images There is probably a long treatise to how a crumbling empire of a baseball […]
Dusty Baker takes complicated legacy into retirement
Perhaps Dusty Baker will wonder what his managerial career would have looked like had Jeremy Pena not gotten hot for 10 days last year. Maybe […]
Travis Kelce breaks down his Taylor Swift-centric Sunday
Do we even need to identify this person?Photo: Getty Images Travis Kelce brought this on himself and he knows that. That was his insistence, at […]
Which feat is more impressive?
Arbitrary arguments are as much a part of baseball as spit and crotch scratching, so in the spirit of lazy September standings, here’s one between […]
Players are still doping and the leagues know it
There is a warped irony in the timing between Netflix’s new sports-doping documentary, Untold: Hall of Shame, and the most recent suspension of a professional […]
Colts’ Jonathan Taylor doesn’t have the leverage of an NBA player
Jonathan Taylor is back at Indianapolis Colts training camp. He is still on the physically unable to perform (PUP) list and also his stance on […]
Steroids are sports’ greatest ”what if”
Welcome to Deadspin’s The Sports Nihilist, where all is for naught and we are but accidental jolts of electrified meat stuck to the surface of […]