Cardiff, Stourbridge and now … Carlisle? Real Madrid have had a decent run with British players in the recent past, and now it seems they are targeting another. Jarrad Branthwaite, hailing from the latter remote Cumbrian city, is the latest to be linked with a sensational move to the Bernabéu after this season’s performances for Everton.
Branthwaite is no stranger to a continental move, impressing on loan at PSV last season, so much so that his then manager, Ruud van Nistelrooy, called him a “complete’ centre-back. Standing at 6ft 5in, speedy and with as much aggression as Martin Keown rushing to laugh in the face of a certain former Manchester United striker, Branthwaite has been scouted by a number of top European clubs this campa…
Today is Melbourne Cup day, the most wonderful time of the year, the designated and officially sanctioned horserace/alcohol drinking competition when thousands and thousands of Aussies dress up in their finest duds and get blitzed while intrepid photographers capture it all in order to delight of the rest of us. Last year’s Melbourne Cup photo roundup was especially memorable, and the blokes and sheilas in attendance this time around had much to live up to. Whether they did or did not surpass their drunken countrymen in slouching, stumbling inebriation and ridiculous camera poses is up for you, the viewer, to decide. But I can report that, by crikey, these racegoers did their damnedest to compete: Photo credit: Scott Barbour/ [object Object] Photo credit: Scott Barbour/ [object Objec…
Some people are fans of the Dallas Cowboys. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Dallas Cowboys. This 2019 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. Your team: Dallas Cowboys. Your 2018 record: 10-6. These Cowboys overachieved and won the NFC East last season. They also somehow got good value out of giving up an oil baron’s ransom for Amari Cooper. But, in an act of divine consolation, none of that mattered in the end, because Andrew Whitworth and the Rams balled them up and shat them out after DeMarcus Lawrence decorated their bulletin board talking some Jay from Clerks shit about taking Jared Goff’s soul. He got his ass flattened. Winning the division was a ruse given that the rest of the NFC East last season was a …
In a great example of gamesmanship that falls just within ethical boundaries, T.Y. Hilton took a dive to avoid being tackled on a long third-quarter catch, and then decided it was best to take his time getting up. It was a great call, because by playing dead, Texans safety Andre Hal took him for a non-threat and strolled right past him, allowing Hilton to get back up untouched and waltz into the end zone to extend the Colts’ lead. I know a battle between Jacoby Brissett and Tom Savage may not feel like a pro football game, but Hal needs to realize that nobody here is playing by college rules. Relatedbest football betting sitesnfl play offs bettingbet on college footballbest online nba betting sitesall mlb betting sitestop online nhl betting sitestop betting sites for ufcfree soccer be…
I have a house and, like most houses, it’s an unfinished work. There are cracks in the paint. There are piles of old clothes and shoes exploding out of the laundry room, which doubles as a storage room because we don’t have a storage room. The walls in our bedroom are bare because we haven’t had time to hang pictures on them since we moved in 10 years ago. We need a pantry, but don’t have one. We just cram cans of food and boxes of pasta into the front hall closet with the coats and shoes because there’s nowhere else to put them. We do not have a larder. I don’t know what a larder is but it sounds fucking great. It sounds like you keep LARD in it, and that suits me nicely. But for now, this loving house will do, in all its imperfections. I suspect most houses are like this. Th…
Every year, we preview the upcoming college football season with a Hater’s Guide to the Top 25, and every year I make the same jokes about Ohio State fans being dumb and Alabama fans being racist (it’s true!), and it’s always a great deal of fun. But this year, between the Hater’s Guides and the Why Your Team Sucks installments, I dare say I’m hated out. It’s unhealthy to hate so much. If I keep hating at this rate, there will a be river of pink ectoplasm running under my house, and the bathtub will try to eat my baby. The time has come not for a Hater’s Guide, but for a Lover’s Guide, in which we say all kinds of drunktastically nice things about every program in the Top 25. Because college football could use the support. Between the NCAA’s tyrannical ways and all t…
Ashley Judd could be one of the more annoying of the celebrity super-fans. It is adorable when famous people are so vocal about their teams, but screamin' Ashley just tends to overdo it a bit. We get it. You love Kentucky. You wear tight shirts that say Kentucky across your boobs. Now stop yelling so much. Moving on. Judd went on the Dan Patrick show today to give the Calipari hire her blessing and the relayed a story about how she once almost broke an NCAA violation rule when she almost gave Tayshaun Prince's mother a ride. From Sports Radio Interviews: "I once offered Tayshaun Prince's mother a ride somewhere and someone came running up to me afterwards saying "Honey, you can't do that."… She's the most precious woman, she drove the publ…
data-mm-id=”_5msk3xl4k”>The first round of the 2020 NFL Draft has been completed. Here is a look at the biggest winners from the draft's first night. Cincinnati BengalsCincinnati's biggest need was a franchise quarterback to build around. They got that in LSU's Joe Burrow, so they are definitely a big winner. The Bengals landed the top quarterback on my board and the player who provides the most value in the entire draft given his position. As soon as Cincinnati hired head coach Zac Taylor, the front office had to work on getting a quarterback who fit his offense. The franchise did that with the highly-accurate Burrow. At 6-foot-3 and 221 pounds, with enough arm to make every throw and elite accuracy, Burrow is the kind of quarterback you take with the first pick. He…
data-mm-id=”_sesaxevnd”>College football, an American institution, is under attack by a global pandemic. On Get Up this morning, Paul Finebaum was asked about the possibility of college football being played without fans in the stands. Finebaum said it would be the end of college football as we know it because it would mean abandoning any semblance of amateurism."I think it would be the end of college football as we know it … from what I hear, I do not believe college presidents and commissioners would go for this."—@finebaum on the possibility of college football being played without fans pic.twitter.com/znWfseD7TO— Get Up (@GetUpESPN) April 16, 2020Maybe that wouldn't be such a bad thing. Earlier today, Greg McElroy said that college football, "has to be pla…
data-mm-id=”_b748hfwpm”>When the rapper 50 Cent shanked his opening throw with the Mets all those years back, the general consensus was that it was and would forever be the worst throw of all-time. For six years, those people were right. No throw rivaled Fiddy in terms of total lack of accuracy, control, or skill. That is until the world got hold of the now-viral engagement-ring-thrown-overboard video, which I present to you now free of commentary, which will be reserved for after you're done watching the video. NOT THE ENGAGEMENT RING ? ?(via miles_vs, a_zalesov, olya_kayy, dmitry3000, romka/Instagram) pic.twitter.com/RAzBwsDDct— ESPN (@espn) August 9, 2020When I first saw this, I thought it was staged because there's simply no way anyone could misthrow a ring box that bad…