Jaguars cornerback Jalen Ramsey and Bengals receiver A.J. Green were ejected from Sunday’s game after Green choked and punched Ramsey. It was a moment of purposeful violence in a sport that is perpetually trying to control uncontrollable brutality. Weirdly, Ramsey was tossed from the game just like Green, even the Jaguars player merely delivered a late shove—not polite, but also not something that would warrant an ejection. According to Ian Rapoport, the officials had thought Ramsey had punched his opponent. He clearly had not: ESPN reported that Ramsey tried to continue the scuffle in the locker rooms: According to multiple sources, Ramsey was then seen being restrained by Jaguars personnel and EverBank Stadium security. He was spotted heading toward the Bengals’ locker …

Some people are fans of the Philadelphia Eagles. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the Philadelphia Eagles. This 2016 Deadspin NFL team preview is for those in the latter group. Read all the previews so far here. And buy Drew’s new book here. Your team: Dumpster Pool Eagles Most polite and hygienic Eagles fan being removed from the Linc. Your 2015 record: 7-9. Kirk Cousins took a knee at the half and blew a scoring chance and this moron team still managed to lose to him. If you go strictly by wins and losses (never do this), it seems pretty rash of the Eagles to shitcan Chip Kelly, who won 20 games in his first two seasons, after just one mediocre season. Oh, but “7-9” gives such short shrift to the way this team spent a whole season planting dynamite inside its own …

Some people are fans of the New Orleans Saints. But many, many more people are NOT fans of the New Orleans Saints. 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 Orleans Saints Your 2012 record: 7-9. GOODELL!!! (shakes fist dredged in Cajun seasoning) Your coach: Wine-swilling bounty program overlord Sean Payton, back after a year in Ginger Hammer-imposed exile. And the best part is that Saints fans believe having Payton back will solve all of the team's problems, which might be possible if Payton played both cornerback and defensive end. In a league with so many terrible defenses, the Saints had the worst defense by FAR. They gave up 15 percent more yards than the second-worst defense in…

Shohei Ohtani’s remarkable mound/plate performance last night helped mask what otherwise was a turgid, if not torturous, ESPN broadcast. The network’s Sunday Night Baseball show has been a bane to fans for pretty much its entire existence, spawning the one site that’s basically responsible for all the sites like this one. Unless Alex Rodriguez being completely oblivious/moronic is your thing. Alex Rodriguez has spent his entire life observing humans in order to try and emulate them, and has failed at it for just as long. He’s fed more lines than Sinatra was on his last tour. I can almost excuse Rodriguez for not knowing what’s going on in the actual world, as he’s lived in such a knock-off, resort Olympus of his own making for so long that losing touch would have to be a sid…

data-mm-id=”_1a809qp81″>The LSU fans smells blood at the SuperDome in New Orleans, and started chanting along to the song "Neck" — their rendition of the Cameo and Dem Franchize Boyz song — when they went up 42-25 on Clemson in the fourth quarter.Here's what the culmination looked like from the crowd:A little neck to fire everyone up pic.twitter.com/K736ubJZlL— Russell Grant (@RussellGrant23) January 14, 2020And here's what it looked like on TV:"SUCK THAT TIGER DICK, BITCH" pic.twitter.com/eAQKfJ6FnG— gifdsports (@gifdsports) January 14, 2020Joe Burrow approved:Joe Burrow approves of LSU band playing Neck. pic.twitter.com/UwK9oHzmFB— Michael Casagrande (@ByCasagrande) January 14, 2020One more angle, as the sounds of the game feed had it on high vol…

data-mm-id=”_z3o841sne”>The 41st Sports Emmy Awards were handed out virtually last night but they still mean a heck of a lot to a bunch of hardworking people who now get something to really tie the living room mantle together. ESPN and Fox tied atop the network leaderboard with seven apiece while HBO and CBS collected five. Some of the more notable individual winners were Ernie Johnson for best studio host, Mike Emrick for best play-by-play, Charles Barkley and Kirk Herbstreit for their respective analysis roles, and Tom Verducci for reporting. A more complete breakdown is below, though it's worthwhile to go check out the official Emmy site, which lists everyone involved with each triumphant production for a reminder that sports television is an iceberg and only a tiny fraction of…

data-mm-id=”_m2bg5hvke”>Enterprising reporter Jon Greenberg of The Athletic tackled the hard-hitting topic of the Cubs announcing duo of Len Kasper and Jim Deshaies wearing suits and ties in the booth in his Sunday column and was richly rewarded with significant web traffic. You wouldn't know that by following him though. The two most popular stories on @TheAthleticMLB right now are of slightly different importance. pic.twitter.com/TzlcalMRV5— jon greenberg (@jon_greenberg) July 27, 2020It turns out there's a reason Kasper and Deshaies are suiting up like Barney Stinson despite the humid, mid-90-degree days that hit the Friendly Confines this weekend. ““Marquee Sports Network, run by New Yorkers in Mike McCarthy and Michael Santini, has been vocal about presenting these g…

data-mm-id=”_q57lxq34y”>Joe Burrow suffered a devastating season-ending left knee injury on Sunday that had the Internet mad at the Cincinnati Bengals for failing to protect him. On Monday the news got worse, as the injury is far more extensive than initially feared. Burrow tore his ACL and MCL while also suffering other structural issues in his knee. He'll undergo reconstructive surgery and begin rehabbing in the hopes he can return to start the 2021 season. These types of knee injuries, like the one Joe Burrow suffered, usually sideline players anywhere from 9-12 months, though each person heals and rehabs differently. But no matter how quickly Burrow does or doesn’t recover, next year’s status is now in question. https://t.co/XfUUMbMPOx— Adam Schefter (@AdamSchefter) Nove…

data-mm-id=”_m9ohx59dn”>The blissful radio silence about Kyrie Irving's future came to a rather abrupt end on Monday. The problematic point guard hasn't played a game in more than a month after he got shut down near the end of the season so the Dallas Mavericks could maneuver their way out of the play-in tournament and into the lottery. Brian Windhorst has been talking about Irving's impending free agency for the last two days and broke down how the Los Angeles Lakers, specifically, could land Irving without giving up Austin Reaves on his podcast yesterday. Brian Windhorst on "The Hoop Collective" podcast discussing Mavericks' impending free agent Kyrie Irving as a Lakers target:"It would take a little bit of maneuvering, and Kyrie [Irving] would prob…