You know, it really is kind of weird when a team has a big champagne celebration after they've lost a game. We know they've earned it, and we know they've got it coming. But it still seems strange to lose a game, go back to the locker room, turn on the television, see a final score in a game played in an entirely different country and say, "Well, all right, we guess we should go crazy now." It just doesn't seem natural. Anyway, no matter the circumstances, the Yankees clinched the American League East last night, thanks to the Red Sox's loss to the Twins back in Boston, forcing Jason Giambi to do whatever the hell he's doing in that photo. (We prefer to think there's not actually across from him waiting to be high-fived; that's just a na…

There is a brazen directness to Angeliño that is equally evident when he speaks as when he plays. On the field, he tears up the left flank with pace and precision, the full-back who also happens to be RB Leipzig’s second highest scorer this season. Off it, he speaks with a blunt and often brutal honesty: no punches pulled, no hidden agendas, just calling it as he sees it. Both feel equally refreshing.

Perhaps time alone has allowed him to focus his thoughts. Holed up on his own in his Leipzig home, cut adrift from his family back home in Galicia, the 24-year-old has spent much of his pandemic-enforced downtime watching box sets and pacing the floors. His partner returned to Spain with his young son, whom he misses terribly. “When you li…

An international break can be a treacherous time for under-pressure club managers. Sackings were expected during the recent run of Nations League matches and friendlies. Even on the morning of the Queen’s funeral there was wide speculation that Steve Cooper would be relieved of his duties at Nottingham Forest. That the announcement had been delayed, suggested the rumour mill, was only out of respect for Her Majesty.

Cooper remains Forest’s manager and will lead his team into the return of the Premier League. On Monday, at Leicester, he will shake the hand of Brendan Rodgers, another manager WhatsApps and social media In-The-Knows were suggesting had been given his cards.

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Manchester United are to tighten up identification spot-checks to ensure tickets for disabled fans do not fall into the wrong hands.

The club have stressed that their No 1 priority for disabled supporters is to ensure only the appropriate people enter designated areas after a report in the Daily Mail claimed some fans were guilty of falsely gaining entry into disabled sections to watch matches, particularly away from home.

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The issue was discussed at a recent fans’ forum and United insist they will support the club’s disabled supporters’ association to prevent misuse.

“Tickets in wheelchair…

The field for the Dota 2 evet contains 16 teams — six invited teams and 10 teams who made it via regional qualifiers — divided into four groups of four teams, with each match best-of-two. After group play Wednesday and Thursday, eight best-of-three seeding matches will be played Friday and Saturday to set the playoff bracket. The playoffs begin Sunday with the best-of-five grand final taking place Sept. 15. The total prize pool is $2,415,143. Payouts for each finishing place have yet to be announced. Playing in Group A on Wednesday, Xtreme beat HEROIC in 41 and 35 minutes, both times on green, before downing Gaimin Gladiators in 35 minutes on green and 30 minutes on red. Liquid and Spirit made quick work in establishing the pecking order in Group D. Liquid beat Aurora in 33 minutes o…

Fight fans were saddened yesterday to learn that veteran slugger Kim Leopoldo had passed away at the age of 41. So young! The news was especially hard on Leopoldo since he was under the impression that he was still alive. A posting on a popular MMA message board announced the death of "Kimo" and that quickly spread to "the blogs" and then actual newspapers, which went ahead and reported it without question. (But it was "confirmed" by TMZ!) However, Leopoldo did not have a heart attack in Costa Rica as reported, probably because he had an important court date in California on the same day and I guess he didn't want to miss it. Being alive is very time consuming. So Kimo had to come out of "hiding" yesterday to prove he wasn't dead—just…

Dwyane Wade established tonight’s Game 2 against the 76ers as a Dwyane Wade Night, a performance bound to get the word “vintage” repeatedly attached to it, pretty early on: certainly before the end of the first half, by which point he’d scored 21 on 8-for-9 shooting off the bench. In the second quarter, he’d outperformed the Sixers all on his own, with 15 points to the team’s 13. But the moment when the night felt completely and unquestionably his didn’t come until a bit later. Toward the end of the third quarter, Wade gave the Heat their biggest lead of the night thus far with this absurd shot: Wade didn’t look 36 years old, and the Sixers didn’t remotely look like the team that had just won 17 games in a row, including a breezy victory in Game 1. But early in the f…

You’ve made it to the third and final installment of our Premier League preview, and what lies below is a rundown of what we at Deadspin consider the six (6) least bad teams in all of England’s top flight. This thirdish of the league is important because this is where teams are fighting for all-important qualification to either the Champions League or Europa League, and it is here that the shit, as they say, gets very real. Even within this tier, though, there is a clear divide in talent and thus realistic ambitions. Two teams will most likely be happy to qualify for Europe, but might need extraterrestrial assistance to penetrate the top four. Beyond that, it’s a shitshow, and there are moves to be made and plots to be twisted yet, and no one, least of all we at Deadspin, have any …