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At Deadspin, the philosophy is if you don't have anything bad to say about someone -- particularly Trump supporters -- don't say anything. Jesse Spector has plenty of negative things to say about famous sports figures backing the president, and he's spewing all of it in a Deadspin slideshow.

In the week leading up to the elections, ESPN President Jimmy Pitaro earned a big Pinocchio. He keeps saying his organization is not political, but his nose keeps growing longer and longer. "We are not a political organization," Pitaro has said in the past, but the network website currently features a six-part series on -- you guessed it -- politics.

President Donald Trump is gaining support from MMA fighters and legendary sports figures, causing consternation for USA Today, which was none too pleased about this development. Jack Nicklaus and Brett Favre made headlines this week for lending their support to the president, golfer Bryson DeChambeau is a Trumper and Politico featured the anti-wo bros -- several fighters who've come…

With all do respect to delicate, pearl-clutching matrons, why are so many of them attracted to writing about sports? Check out The Washington Post’s Barry Svrluga and his more-in-sorrow scolding of L.A. Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner for celebrating his world series win with the team. (And Svrluga isn't the only one.)

LeBron James and other social justice warriors in the NBA have been talking a lot about "change" this year, and a USA Today story confirms that it's a full-fledged war on President Donald Trump's bid for re-election.

Don't be that guy? Deadspin hate-monger Jesse Spector proudly claims to be "that guy" and his latest diatribe proves it. In his article "Sit down, jerk ― the flag doesn't have cancer," Spector says the people who complain about politics in sports are themselves politicizing it, in numerous ways.

A wide receiver for the Arizona Cardinals driving on his way to Sunday's game against Seattle weaved in and out of a Trump caravan and showed his middle fingers to participants. Yahoo writer Meredith Cash defended him as a "legend" exercising his free speech rights. For acting like a complete buffoon and total jerk.

During President Donald Trump's Wednesday Town Hall, host Eric Bolling indicated that NFL Hall of Fame quarterback Brett Favre submitted a video with a question about how pro sports can present anti-racism messaging without alienating fans. The Washington Post's Des Bieler used this story as an opportunity to justify the social justice activism that's pushing fans away from sports.…

How much should it concern Cubs fans that their owners are horrendous Republicans? Deadspin's Jesse Spector said followers of Chicago's National League team should be greatly alarmed that their team is owned by people who are funding the ransacking of American democracy through heinous, inhuman policies.

Following the NBA's embarrassing TV ratings collapse, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Jason Whitlock offered competing evaluations of the face of the league: LeBron James. Writing for The Guardian, Abdul-Jabbar used a Mount Rushmore analogy to describe James as the personification of the modern-day woke athlete. In an Outkick video, Whitlock called James a turn-off, "crass" and "crude" and…

Our nation's Spanish-language media absolutely LOVE running political hot takes from Latino celebrities and athletes, so long as they fall in line and endorse liberal candidates and causes. And if those celebrities should be conservative, or God forbid, express support for President Donald Trump? More often than not, they get radio silence.

She’s never really been proud of her country and he’s never not been proud of himself. Or China. Now, they want to make sure people who wouldn’t otherwise show up and exercise the franchise of their own volition are enticed to vote with bread and circuses. But the only thing more unlikeable than a Michelle Obama-LeBron James political partnership partnership is the way the AP is reporting it…

Well here’s some news to break the heart. Yahoo Sports reports that “Game 1 of the Finals between the Los Angeles Lakers and Miami Heat brought in only 7.41 million viewers to ABC, according to The Hollywood Reporter. That is reportedly the lowest viewership seen for the Finals since at least 1994, when total viewers began to be regularly recorded.”

Who would envision living in a time where an American athlete could be suspended from his team’s competition for supporting his country’s duly-elected president? Well we don’t have to imagine it. This week professional American cyclist Quinn Simmons was sidelined from competition for disagreeing with a journalist’s negative appraisal of President Donald Trump.