Some people are fans of the Jacksonville Jaguars. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Jacksonville Jaguars. This 2019 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. Your team: [Duval chant voice] LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-SERS Your 2018 record: 5-11. Who could have guessed that a team quarterbacked by Blake Bortles would regress to the mean, and then keep plummeting through that mean like Wile E. Coyote smashing through successive floors all the way down to the bottom of an Acme rocket skate factory? Not I. Nossir. After gifting New England their 8,000th AFC title the season prior, the Jags started last season 2-0, including a 31-20 waxing of those same Pats in Tarzan heat that led to the inevitable and fruitless “What’s wron…

There are plenty of lists out there compiling the year’s best sportswriting—try this one if you’re looking for some good holiday-weekend reading—and that’s as it should be, because there is a lot of great sportswriting out there, possibly more than ever. You won’t find any of it here, though. Instead, we celebrate the worst sportswriting of the year: The purple prose, the writers too clever by half, the overuse of the majestic plural. This is what brought the Deadspin staff the most joy in 2016. Murray Chass, murraychass.com | [object Object] Murray Chass, and/or his grandson, is (are?) definitely not mad online about the Baseball Hall of Fame or ESPN writer/digital dandy Dan Szymborski: My grandson scans the Internet much more than I do. He knows a lot more than I do, espe…

Some people are fans of the New York Giants. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New York Giants. 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: New York Giants Your 2012 record: 9-7. Missed the playoffs after appearing in a Super Bowl. Like clockwork. Your coach: Ideal buddy cop movie police chief Tom Coughlin. He's got just 10 weeks 'til retirement, Rolle! HE'S TOO OLD TO LISTEN TO YOUR HORSESHIT EXCUSES. I bet Tom Coughlin goes to bed at night wearing chinos and white sneakers. You will read 700 puff pieces about Tom Coughlin every year that say, "Hey, he's not such a dick anymore!" But then his team will lose and he will immediately throw his players …

Some people are fans of the Houston Texans. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Houston Texans. This 2012 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read the other Why Your Team Sucks 2012 previews here. 1. The back-up plan. I would argue the Texans were the best team in the AFC last season right up until the moment when Matt Schaub got hurt. And then, suddenly, the only exciting season in Texans history—the one goddamn time this team was mildly relevant—was destroyed. They had to sign Jake fucking Delhomme, they were so bereft at the position. So you would think that the Texans would wisen up after such a disastrous turn of events, that they would go out and find themselves a decent backup QB, like Vince Young, or The Neckbeard, or ANYONE who could hel…

The 2008 NBA playoffs did more than just entertain us for the last seven or eight months. It taught us stuff. Some stuff we only suspected, and some other stuff we never even knew before. Here is that stuff. The Atlanta Hawks have fans…real, flesh-and-blood fans. Boston fans, on the other hand, apparently are bandwagon jumpers. The NBA will not tolerate "menacing" hand gestures. Ever. Kevin Garnett never forgets. "Third person" is LeBron James' preferred method of speaking. Basketball and rapper slap-fights can go hand-in-hand. Trash-talking Lebron James does not work. Beating LeBron up — or trying to, anyway — doesn't work either. There is no DeShawn-LeBron rivalry. The Cavaliers apparently can beat the Wizards in the playoffs three yea…

data-mm-id=”_6gmenxs34″>Larry Walker is now a member of the Baseball Hall of Fame, as he was elected on Tuesday in his 10th and final year of eligibility. Given his career accomplishments and how he dominated the 1990s, he should have been a no-brainer. It's amazing it took this long. In his final ballot appearance, Larry Walker gets in. #HOF2020 pic.twitter.com/HTNbvdvueG— MLB (@MLB) January 21, 2020The long-time Colorado Rockies star was finally granted entry into the Hall of Fame, garnering 76.6 percent of the vote. He needed 75 percent to get in.During a 17-year career with the Rockies, Montreal Expos and St. Louis Cardinals Walker was consistently fantastic. He was a five-time All-Star, a seven-time Gold Glove Award winner, a three-time Silver Slugger winner, won three batt…

data-mm-id=”_ufbotvipy”>With full acknowledgment of the heinous nature of Thom Brennaman's slur and his apology that was sincere enough to include a cutaway to a hard drive by Nick Castellanos, there have to be some decision-makers at Fox Sports who were relieved to discover just how easy it'd be to replace him on NFL coverage. And how, ultimately, the product might see addition through subtraction. Brennaman, though a competent veteran, was poised to slide even down the depth chart if not in practice, then in perception, with the free-agent acquisition of the uber-talented Adam Amin who figures to be near the center of the network's plans for years to come. A Swiss Army Knife capable of handling any assignment, he could find his time focused on professional football as …

data-mm-id=”_tcqxfa99n”>Zion Williamson probably heard the rumblings. It would have been impossible not to. Some claimed he was out of shape, run-down or moving worse than he did during the regular season. Hell, some were saying he shouldn't even be playing right now. Monday night, he silenced some of those doubters. Williamson led the New Orleans Pelicans past the Memphis Grizzlies, 109-99, while scoring 23 points, grabbing seven rebounds and dishing out five assists in only 25 minutes. Yeah, there were times when he lumbered a bit, but plenty of guys haven't looked 100 percent since the NBA's Orlando bubble started. The rookie out of Duke mostly looked like his old self.Williamson was solid on defense but was downright explosive on offense during his bursts on the floo…

data-mm-id=”_q7u9cxp8u”>The James Harden/Russell Westbrook era ended in Houston last night after one unremarkable season. The Rockets sent Westbrook to the Washington Wizards in exchange for John Wall. Wall hasn't seen the floor in two years, spending that time recovering from a torn Achilles. The two teams basically swapped two big contracts, and the Wizards sent Houston a lottery-protected 2023 first-round pick. To some, it might appear as the start of a teardown in Houston. But according to Adrian Wojnarowski, the trade was made because Harden preferred Wall to Westbrook. .@wojespn details the Russell Westbrook-John Wall trade:"[James Harden] had a preference of John Wall over Westbrook." pic.twitter.com/GoAHv1QVUj— Get Up (@GetUpESPN) December 3, 2020As Woj notes, …

data-mm-id=”_4qq65nj9r”>Aaron Rodgers is with the New York Jets now but we have certainly not heard the last of his previous relationship with the Green Bay Packers. Their very public and rather ugly separation will loom over Rodgers' first season in a different uniform whether he wins a Super Bowl or goes 7-10. One thing we can count on at this point is Rodgers giving his side of the story whenever the opportunity arises. On Wednesday, The Athletic's Matt Schneidman published a deep dive on how the divorce between the Packers and their Hall of Fame quarterback came to be. Rodgers was interviewed for the piece and the quotes he gave do not suggest he's over what happened there. Not one bit. The biggest thing Rodgers has harped on in the last year has been a certain lack …