The Chicago Bears are 0-4 to start the season. It’s certainly not the first time the “Monsters of the Midway” have started the season with multiple losses. After all, we lived through the John Fox era, but somehow, after several seasons of big expectations, and devastating results, this season’s start feels worse than most. Today, when the Bears had a real chance to beat the winless Broncos, and with Justin Fields finally looking like the quarterback the Bears thought they drafted, head coach Matt Eberflus inexplicably decided to go for it on 4th and 1 with under three minutes in the 4th quarter, rather than kick a field goal and take the lead. In the process, he burned a time out. Final score? Broncos 31, Bears 28. The real difference in this game was that Sean Payton seemed to…

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Next season’s NBA schedule is out. Here are the worst games, organized chronologically. OCTOBER Friday, October 20, 2017: Orlando Magic at Brooklyn NetsThursday, October 26, 2017: Atlanta Hawks at Chicago BullsTuesday October 31, 2017: Sacramento Kings at Indiana Pacers, Phoenix Suns at Brooklyn Nets (tie) NOVEMBER Friday, November 3, 2017: Phoenix Suns at New York KnicksThursday, November 9, 2017: Philadelphia 76ers at Sacramento KingsTuesday, November 21, 2017: Chicago Bulls at Los Angeles LakersFriday, November 24, 2017: New York Knicks at Atlanta HawksWednesday, November 29, 2017: Charlotte Hornets at Toronto Raptors DECEMBER Friday, December 1, 2017: Detroit Pistons at Washington WizardsSunday, December 3, 2017: Orlando Magic at New York KnicksTuesday, December 12, 2017: Phoenix S…

Some people are fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Pittsburgh Steelers. This 2014 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group.
Your team: Pittsburgh Steelers
Your 2013 record: 8-8. And no team looks more 8-8ish than when the Steelers go 8-8.
Your coach: Mike Tomlin, again. Obviously. As you know by now, Tomlin's chief football strategy is to forget that he is not a player …
Also, Chuck Noll is dead now. How could they tell? Every Steelers fan spends the offseason gratifying themselves to video of Chuck Noll not saying anything.
Your quarterback: Big Ben, again. And yes, he's still fat. He should be his own offensive line. By the end of the season, he'll bring a chair with him out onto …

A few years ago, Joe Paterno and Penn State, facing an open-records lawsuit from reporter Jan Murphy and the Patriot-News, fought like crazy to prevent salary information about university employees from becoming public. Murphy and the paper won a court ruling only to see Paterno et al. appeal the decision to Pennsylvania's Supreme Court, which in 2007 affirmed the lower court's decision. Two years later, Pennsylvania passed the Right to Know Law, which forces Penn State to report some salary information, including how much Paterno and his "bosses" make. Below is the compensation breakdown from the latest report (click to enlarge; the full report is at bottom). Paterno makes a total of $1,022,794. President Graham Spanier makes $813,855. What do these numbers tell …

Craig James's hopeless and hopelessly silly Senate campaign has finally borne some interesting fruit: his financial disclosure reports, through which we can learn how much money he made being the biggest embarrassment at ESPN (at least on days Lynn Hoppes wasn't working). And, wow, apparently it's good work being awful on television. According to the disclosure—which we've embedded at the bottom of the post—James made $416,000 in 2010 from ESPN/ABC, for which he called college football games. In 2011, he made $288,817. James's spokeswoman told The Dallas Morning News that his ESPN/ABC salary dropped last year "because he resigned early to run for the Senate." Poor guy. And how is James doing in the race? Depending on the poll, James is projected…

data-mm-id=”_m4pbdj9cx”>Jamal Adams thrust the set of Get Up into civil war on Thursday. .@damienwoody and @Foxworth24 could NOT disagree more on the Jamal Adams situation. pic.twitter.com/cGgtNrFPuJ— Get Up (@GetUpESPN) October 31, 2019Former NFL stars and current hosts of the ESPN show Damien Woody and Domonique Foxworth staunchly took opposite sides in their analysis of the situation concerning Jamal Adams. The New York Jets safety recently took offense to revelations that general manager Joe Douglas fielded calls for a potential trade prior to Tuesday's deadline. Adams had expressed his displeasure on Twitter and later remarked "I hold myself at a high level. The Rams don’t take calls on Aaron Donald. The Patriots don’t take calls on Tom Brady." Woody, a former…

data-mm-id=”_eqnz4eova”>After much speculation and an ESPN report that suggested his fate had already been decided prior to Week 17, Doug Marrone has survived Black Monday. Jaguars owner Shad Khan announced on Tuesday that both Marrone and general manager Dave Caldwell would be retained following a disappointing 6-10 season that ended in a blowout victory over the Indianapolis Colts on Sunday. A statement from owner Shad Khan: The Jaguars staff is back pic.twitter.com/j4w4urGXkh— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) December 31, 2019Rapoport also said that one of the driving reasons Khan decided to keep the pair was to give them a chance to operate without Tom Coughlin, whose presence apparently permeated the entire organization so deeply that Khan believes his departure could turn things around…

data-mm-id=”_wiumll0ow”>On March 27, 1962, Jacques Plante won his sixth Vezina Trophy, awarded yearly to the best goalie in hockey. He would go on to win one more and still holds the record for most Vezina trophies earned during his career with a total of seven. Plante is a pivotal figure in hockey history; not only is he considered one of the best goalies of all time from just about every standpoint, he was also the first to wear a mask in a game. Plante only played goalie because he had asthma as a child that prevented him from skating for long periods of time. His father made his first goalie pads out of sacks of potatoes. It's truly a Canadian origin story. Plante played on the town's factory team when he was a teenager and was paid fifty cents a game after he found out …