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    The Washington Football Team Is Finally Changing Its Name. Who’s Next?The worst moniker in sports is no more. It may soon have company.
    By Will Leitch
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    Trump Can’t Turn Bubba Wallace Into Colin KaepernickIn his attempt to demonize an innocent driver, the president finds that even NASCAR won’t listen to him anymore.
    By Will Leitch
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    10 Tips on How to Bring Your Sport Back During a PandemicFake crowd noise is good. So is shaming players who break the rules.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Only Thing That Would Stop Sports NowA player dying from the coronavirus is an unlikely but real possibility.
    By Will Leitch
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    Baseball’s Disastrous Spring Feels Like an Existential CrisisAt this point, does it even matter when the sport comes back?
    By Will Leitch
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    Roger Goodell’s Black Lives Matter Moment Is a Sign of Trump’s WeaknessThe president never actually had that much power over the NFL. Now, he has none.
    By Will Leitch
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    Sports Have Never Felt More Meaningless Than Right NowTheir return won’t do anything to make our troubled moment feel any more normal.
    By Will Leitch
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    Outraged by Crowded Pool Parties? Just Wait Until Sports Come Back.Fans will show up in droves even if they’re not allowed inside stadiums.
    By Will Leitch
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    It’s Probably Not Safe for Sports to Come Back. That May Not Matter.Both executives and fans have shown before that they’ll put entertainment over player safety.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Big Questions Sports Leagues Have to Answer Before They ReopenA big one: What happens if a player tests positive for coronavirus in the middle of the season?
    By Will Leitch
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    Watching Old Sports in Quarantine Drives Home the Supremacy of Modern AthletesTake in a few hours of a classic baseball or basketball game and it’s clear that the stars of yesteryear could barely compete in today’s game.
    By Will Leitch
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    When Your Favorite Sport Might Be Coming BackSlowly but surely, the big American leagues are planning their returns.
    By Will Leitch
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    The NFL’s Pandemic Strategy Is to Ignore the PandemicSo far, timing has worked in the league’s favor. But its business-as-usual approach smacks of magical thinking.
    By Will Leitch
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    ESPN’s Michael Jordan Documentary and the Enduring Power of 30 for 30The highly anticipated series could be the next step in the network’s filmmaking evolution.
    By Will Leitch
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    How Desperate Are Sports Leagues Right Now? This Desperate.You know it’s bad when we’ve reached the “playing in a biodome” phase of discussion.
    By Will Leitch
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    How Screwed Is Your Favorite Sport’s Season?A survey of the damage coronavirus has wrought among the NFL (fine so far), NBA (up in the air), and other major leagues.
    By Will Leitch
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    The One Sports League Reckless Enough to (Maybe) Keep GoingIn the midst of a complete athletic blackout, it makes sense that the UFC would be taking its cues from President Trump.
    By Will Leitch
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    Sports Are Usually a Great Escape. Not This Time.Their meaninglessness — the reason they’re so important in moments of crisis — is precisely why they have to be shut down.
    By Will Leitch
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    The American Sports World Is Dragging Its Feet on CoronavirusAs the rest of society reckons with sweeping changes brought on by the disease, the NBA and other leagues are doing very little.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Mascot Wars Will Never EndFights over Chief Wahoo and his derogatory brethren are just another front on the cultural battlefield.
    By Will Leitch
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    What the Story of the Vermont Reds Tells Us About Bernie SandersThe way the minor-league baseball team came to Burlington is the candidate’s career in miniature. So is the way they left.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Astros Cheating Scandal Has Only Gotten NuttierEverything we’ve learned about the story that is consuming — and revitalizing — Major League Baseball.
    By Will Leitch
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    Pete Rose’s Plea to Be Unbanned From Baseball Is Right From the Trump PlaybookThe legendary hitter (and gambler) admits no fault while harkening back to the sport’s bygone golden age. It just might work.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Super Bowl Showed That the NFL Is Back on TopOn a night when everything went right for the league, its recent turbulent history seemed like a long time ago.
    By Will Leitch
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    Kobe Bryant Was Just Getting StartedThe NBA legend, who died in a helicopter crash on Sunday, was a longtime fixture of American culture. But he had a whole life left to live.
    By Will Leitch
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    A Baseball Expert’s Guide to the Nutty MLB Cheating ScandalThe story dominating the major leagues has now moved into the realm of conspiracy theory — and remains highly enjoyable.
    By Will Leitch
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    The College Football Championship Was All About the Crowd — and TrumpIn 2020, everything eventually turns into a political rally.
    By Will Leitch
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    The End of an Era in College BasketballNCAA basketball used to be a place where fans could see future NBA stars. No longer.
    By Will Leitch
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    10 Bold Sports Predictions for the 2020sGames played with no fans? Congressman Kaepernick? A fearless attempt to forecast the decade ahead.
    By Will Leitch
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    The 10 Biggest Sports Stories of the DecadeFrom the rise of athlete autonomy to the end of a very long baseball curse.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Sports Scolds Are WinningElijah Moore’s peeing-dog touchdown celebration was a fun, funny moment — not a threat to our children.
    By Will Leitch
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    Finally, a Fun Baseball ScandalThank God for the Houston Astros and their ridiculous trash-can scheme.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Ugly Efficiency of Modern SportsTeams are smarter than ever, but it hasn’t made sports more fun to watch. Is there a way out?
    By Will Leitch
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    What Will Become of Deadspin’s Corpse?The founder of the dearly departed website sees a few possibilities.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Wisdom of the CrowdBooing the president probably won’t help. But hey, it can’t hurt, either!
    By Will Leitch
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    How the World Got Too Crowded for the World SeriesThe crowning event of America’s Pastime is now just another thing on TV. But there may be another way forward.
    By Will Leitch
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    LeBron Turns Out to Be Just Another EmployeeThe NBA star’s response to the China controversy demonstrates his limits.
    By Will Leitch
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    The NBA’s China Posture Is Indefensible. It’s Also Inevitable.Because the league’s players are all in business there, a backlash to the backlash isn’t going to happen, either.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Postseason Is Sleepless Season for Baseball DiehardsThere’s a simple logic driving the late start times and low TV ratings.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Thrill of DefeatIt’s impossible to keep sports fans happy, but maybe that’s not the point.
    By Will Leitch
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    Who Will Be the First Star Athlete to Make a Serious Run at the White House?In a world in which sports are politicized and politics has turned into a celebrity sport, the rise of the athlete-politician is inevitable.
    By Will Leitch
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    Winning Ain’t What It Used to BeThe twin goals of maximizing profit and maximizing championships aren’t aligned anymore for modern sports franchises.
    By Will Leitch
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    We’re All Fake Fans NowWe know more about athletes than ever, but it hasn’t made them more human to us.
    By Will Leitch
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    The Joyous Masochism of Rooting for the Cleveland BrownsThe most desultory team in the NFL is going to be very good and very fun this season.
    By Will Leitch
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    Dabo Swinney Is College Football’s Real Evil VillainHe’s everything wrong with college football.
    By Will Leitch
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    Politics on the Field of PlayAlejandro Bedoya’s activist celebration shows a new way for athletes to be political.
    By Will Leitch
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    Peyton Manning’s Undeserved Reputation Is His Greatest AchievementSomehow, none of the scandals seem to have stuck.
    By Will Leitch
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    Baseball’s Latest Identity CrisisMLB players are hitting more home runs than ever, and that’s all right with me.
    By Will Leitch
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    A National Team for the Trump EraThe U.S. Women’s World Cup victory was sweet because of Megan Rapinoe’s and her teammates’ activism.
    By Will Leitch
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    Kevin Durant Just Told You a Lot More About the Knicks Than the NetsAnd let’s maybe not coronate Brooklyn just yet.
    By Will Leitch
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