Fuck right off with the smarmy allegations, and save that libertarian non-coercion bullshit for someone else. If it were up to these guys, they wouldn't wear helmets at all. The NHL has the right to curb the macho bullshit to protect their product.

Only on Deadspin can a pun work so well. +1

The point is that it removes the burden of choice from the players so that they can't continue the whole masculine "tough-guy" bullshit without repercussion. No more "pussies" for wearing a visor because, "Hey, it's not up to me."

Dude, do you really think that their postseason failures is an indictment against their whole business strategy? Because if so, holy shit, I have nothing to say.

HIIT sprints. All the benefits, 1/3 the time.

Senses Fail? Please stop doing this forever. For everyone's sake.

Hell is your final destination, my friend. +666

Oh, I lauhged way too hard at this. Perfeclty topical.

Shhh.

TS% is true shooting percentage. eFG% is effective field goal percentage. eFG% accounts for the difference between 2-pt and 3-pt attempts (2/5 3pt and 3/5 2pt are each a .600 eFG%, for instance) and True Shooting accounts for the ability to get to the FT line and convert those attempts.

Leonard isn't even close to a Bruce Bowen type, either. He's incredibly efficient on the offensive end (Bowen is a career .50 TS% shooter).

You should read some on decision science if you're really confident in your ideas about "the real world" and "eyeballing" and all that horseshit.

Popovich would murder someone if the reporter asked an off-topic, frivolous question mid-game.

Reporter: What's your least favorite part about working in HR?

Most people say, "I own it, but I haven't read it yet." I was one of those people for about a year and a half, and then I read it, and now I'm one of those people who urges other people to swallow the fear and dive in.

I strongly recommend a paper copy. It's a long haul.

Like in Ulysses, Gravity's Rainbow and J R, prepare for a serious level of disorientation. But by page 200, you will see how the myriad plots and characters fit together and Wallace's hypermaximal attention to detail will make his fictive world seem as real as your own. Not to mention he's laugh-out-loud funny, and…

Don't bother. It's meant to be read. I don't even know how people read it on an e-reader.

It's the best contemporary novel I've read. It was trimmed by 500 pages (give or take) to its 1,100 page count, but it's worth the time for sure. For its humanism and formal inventiveness, I'm not sure I'll read a book so challenging and immediately rewarding.

One of my favorite non-fiction pieces of Wallace's is "The View from Mrs. Thompson's," which is about seeing 9/11 on television from Bloomington, Il. The first third of the piece is about his futile effort to find a miniature American flag to put on his car's window.