It wasn’t supposed to last this long. When Michael Jordan slightly pushed off Bryon Russell to square up for a 17-foot jump shot with 5. 2 seconds left in 1998, the future was a giant question mark. The moment the shot clock expired, the rebuild began. Bulls fans knew the band was broken up. This […]
This Tony La Russa sociology experiment on the South Side of Chicago is going exactly as anyone familiar with the White Sox team and La Russa figured it would. And really, the only thing bailing La Russa out is that this roster was so turn-key when he took it over that even the injuries to […]
While it was fun to pretend that the forced “Odd Coupling” of a drunk old codger Tony La Russa and one of the flashiest, dynamic young teams in baseball would boil over simply due to culture clashes, that was always a touch unlikely. Certainly atmospheres within a clubhouse have led to poisonous results on the […]
Welcome into Deadspin’s IDIOT OF THE YEAR awards! Our expert staff has worked tirelessly to provide this yearly collection of the sport and sports-adjacent characters who most profoundly left us wish we {} staged as babies. Read…
In the wake of the revelation which Jerry Reinsdorf intentionally hired Tony La Russa the afternoon following the latter had been charged with another DUI, a great deal of people less comfortable with Reinsdorf’s manners are wondering just how anything could occur. You need to know that Reinsdorf functions in his own special way. Read…
A whole lot has happened within the last few weeks, and much more is going to take place in the weeks ahead, so perhaps a refresher is essential. Read…