I used to be “of the Body...”

Holy shit, Hawk & Dove? I’m in.

God bless Iris Clawson. And good on you, Mr. Ferhrman, forgiving a sweet, sharp, savvy hoops fan someone new to talk bsketball with—and for introducing her to Deadspin’s readers-at-large.

“The Colt Single-Action Army Revolver, aka ‘The Peacemaker,’ is known today as The Gun That Never Skipped Leg Day.  Buy this piece of true Americana today, only on HamNo.biz!”

He looks like he wants to be Ryan Leaf.

A lot of people say that, and there’s evidence that points to something like that being true. But any good heavyweight boxer will annihilate any welterweight. Does that mean that John Ruiz is a better boxer than Sugar Ray Robinson was? Hell, they say that an NFL team—any NFL team—would stomp every NCAA team 99 or…

You are...absolutely right, MT. I was being pretty thin-skinned, feeling like Mr. Petchesky was talking about Pujols as if he were Pelé, slumming it down with the NY Cosmos after 18 years at Santos. Your take is definitely more likely than mine, and is probably correct.

racking up Fine Season after Fine Season ingames played after most of the country has gone to bed

I regard Kareem with a respect that borders on hero-worship. I believe that Magic’s combination of compassion and will to succeed is unprecedented. And I don’t think the world will ever see someone with principles as unshakeable, or who will accomplish the impossible as many times, as Ali.

UN-DER-STARRED! (clap, clap, clap-clap-clap!)

Gotta say, buddy, that not mentioning any catch-phrases from the greatest hoops announcer of all time, Chick Hearn (and it’s not even close), was an error. The dude invented terms like “dribble-drive,” “airball,” and “slam-dunk” (or, as Chick would say, “SLAAAAAAM-DUNK!”). Leaving out his “this game’s in the…

To paraphrase Micheal Che, Gohmert and Jordan using the troubled past of some of the accusers as a bludgeon to impugn their testimony is kind of like looking at someone you molested when they were a child, and saying “boy, did you turn out weird!”

Yup, yup, you’re right.  But she got the WWE to spring for usage rights money to keep using it, something they rarely do.

With you so far, but she somehow convinced the WWE to spring for the $$ to use the song as her ring music, too.  And the WWE rarely does that.

Well, her choice of MMA trainers pretty much proved that, didn’t it? But she either got the WWE to pop for the cash to use the song, or someone at the WWE realized its value-to-cost advantage.  Either way, someone was being smart.

We are pretty much into Dunning-Kruger territory here: that special category known as the unjustified confidence of a mediocre white man.

Unwritten Rules FTW!

Whaaaaaat? Dafuq did I miss that??