
Antonio Conte wants to get fired more than anyone has ever wanted to get fired
deadspin.com...It refers to Tottenham Hotspur and that no matter the situation, or the seeming unlikeliness, something weird will happen to the club, and in a bad... ...But Spurs have also hit their greatest recent heights under Levy, and perhaps more poignantly to every Spurs supporter, manager Mauricio Pochettino... ...That result alone would have been weird enough for the North London club, but this is Tottenham Hotspur, where they can always pour more confounding...

Joel Embiid is overtaking Nikola Joki? in 2022-23 NBA MVP race
deadspin.com...Bleacher Report analyst Andy Bailey almost abandoned Twitter due to the backlash from Philly fans.... ...Nikola Joki?'s third consecutive MVP has seemed like an inevitability during the first three-quarters of the season.... ...Nikola Joki? (1st). Giannis Antetokounmpo (1st). James Harden (1st)... ...Kendrick Perkins grasping for straws with his consistent bashing of Joki? sparked a war on First Take with JJ Reddick that took the MVP conversation...

Make sure you're angry about Alabama for the right reasons
deadspin.com...Alabama is the perfect villain for so many reasons, and I'm not even referring to the Brandon Miller situation.... ...Ohio State gives off a similar vibe.... ..."They bought every title from Nick Saban to Bear Bryant, so why is the 2022-23 basketball team an outlier?"... ...(Never mind Miller's dad played football for Gene Stallings and met his mother when in Tuscaloosa.). The Tide are tearing through the tourney....

Charles Barkley says he showered in his uniform after games
deadspin.com...Yeah, I don't believe it either, and neither did Kenny Smith, Greg Gumbel, or Clark Kellogg for that matter.... ...But Charles Barkley did just that -- only he was the one doing the rinsing, scrubbing, and air drying.... ...Oh my god, give Kenny and Charles the Emmy right now. I don't care if this isn't an NBA on TNT broadcast.... ...The only person who probably thinks what Barkley did was sanitary is Dan Orlovsky, who also aired his own dirty laundry this week....

Deadspin presents The Great Debates tournament: Round of 32
deadspin.com...Not just sports famous, but pop culture icons like Michael Jackson, Eddie Murphy, Jack Nicholson, etc.... ...Willie Mays came up through the Negro Leagues and was on the field for the New York Giants shortly after his 20th birthday....

The Timberwolves" awful season just got a level worse than awful
deadspin.com...The Minnesota Timberwolves" season from hell continued Friday night as they lost to the Chicago Bulls in double overtime and may have lost Anthony... ...Edwards for the remainder of the regular season to an ankle injury.... ...Minnesota without Edwards is the 2021 Utah Jazz but older and without Donovan Mitchell, and that's about as depressing of a basketball situation... ...Mike Conley and Rudy Gobert are more than capable of playing .500 basketball for a short span, and hopefully, it's long enough to bridge the gap...

NCAA Tournament: Fairleigh Dickinson shocks No. 1 seeded Purdue
deadspin.com...The Boilermakers became the second No. 1 seed to lose to a 16 seed in the NCAA tournament, and congrats to Fairleigh Dickinson.... ...Purdue's Zach Edey is going to take home a treasure trove of hardware, and lucky for him, he"ll be at his place of residence to make sure no one... ...For all the hype Nikola Joki? and Joel Embiid get, neither has been to the NBA finals.... ...So, congratulations to Fairleigh Dickinson on the win as well as upsetting Gradey Dick as the entity most likely to evoke a dick joke that my editors...

What was this Ja Morant suspension all about?
deadspin.com...Morant was away from the Memphis Grizzlies after appearing on Instagram Live from a strip club with a gun.... ...Ja Morant will be back on the court next week at some point. Which is good?maybe?... ...Morant has a big interview with ESPN's Jalen Rose.... ...And now he's doing interviews on ESPN. And returning to the Grizzlies in a few days....

Ex-NFLer Stanley Wilson Jr. died the same way several other men have in LA this year
deadspin.com...1, the Los Angeles Police Department Protective League -- the local union -- presented a proposal.... ...On Wednesday, the Los Angeles City Council approved $1 million to create the Office of Unarmed Response and Safety.... ...LA County spokesperson Jesus Ruiz did comment on the case when questioned by the Los Angeles Times.... ...They are suing Los Angeles County for $45 million in damages....

FIFA sets its awful sights on short-changing Women's World Cup
deadspin.com...The election of a FIFA president is probably as close as we can get to a world president, as being the governor of the world's most popular sport... ...What exactly Gianni Infantino has done to earn a second term is anyone's guess, other than promising a whole lot to smaller nations who continuously... ...It started yesterday when Human Rights Watch pleaded with soccer's overseeing body to use the Legacy Fund they created before the World Cup to compensate... ...The Norwegian Football Federation is pushing a proposal along the lines of Amnesty International's call for FIFA to compensate workers and their...