Yes, you can ALSO think that. You can ALSO NOT think that. The argument that you must accept A and B is not accurate, and that’s the case Chris was making and you’re making now. No, I don’t have to believe Serena was being a poor sport and Ramos targeted her and destroyed the final.

This picture may look familiar if you watched the match Saturday, or the highlights. That’s Serena, of course, in a conversation with Brian Earley, a U.S. Open official for nearly 40 years, and Donna Kelso, a tournament supervisor. Except the photo isn’t from this weekend, it’s from 2009. Same tournament. Serena was…

You’d think her own experience would be her guide, but apparently threatening to shove a ball down a line judge’s throat and being fined $175,000 for it nine years ago in the same tournament just didn’t resonate with Serena.

The irony in all of this is that the threat was because of comments made in a column where he believed an official punished someone too harshly for their commentary.

And whaddya know? Danica Patrick finally won something!

Right?

Eh...you know, it’s a whole thing.

Bruce Arians! He also said in this game on a completion to Jesse James that he was “wide-ass open.” So, rip-roarin’ start on the Tiffany Network for the Kangol hat.

Oh, please:

Yeah, calling an official a “thief” is so much worse than saying “are you blind” or something. She’s accusing him of being unethical, which...pretty bad look. 

“Wherever you happen to fall on Serena’s behavior Saturday night, I’m sure you agree with me that this is the umpire’s fault.”

“This is not fair.”

This guy sounds like a perfect reclamation project for...the Dallas Cowboys.

Maybe you live near Aaron McKie?

And now that gambling is legal and the NFL stands to directly make about $3 billion a year off of it, player safety will be the paramount thing. Not that it should be diminished, but now the logic or function of rules is probably a tertiary consideration at best. 

I half-jokingly started saying about five years ago that they’ll adopt the Pro Bowl no-blitzing rule, and I’m fairly confident that will come to pass. Simply hitting a quarterback is not necessarily going to prevent him from throwing a pass. You have to try to tackle him. Tackling involves forcing someone down, and…

“After you make contact, you cannot drive him into the ground.”

From what I hear, he’s going to get some pants attention no matter how tight they are.

That is the best possible pitch.

That is the best possible pitch.

Aye.