No. The word malice doesn't just mean, "very, very bad." It has a specific meaning that has to do with the willful intention to do evil. That's not at all the same thing as callous self-preservation.

I don't mean to be rude, sincerely, but:

Maybe I'm confused about the meaning of the word "malicious." Couldn't they have deliberately concealed what they knew for the purpose of avoiding a big scandal that would make their cash-cow football program look bad and possibly cost them recruits, ticket sales, and reputation? That hardly requires malice.

Could you please show me a single instance of anybody alleging malicious intent on the part of anybody at PSU other than Sandusky?

That's really fucking funny. +1

I did read the article, dude. If you read the goddamn comment above, you'll see that I asked if any of the memorialized Americans "have any particular connection to the Olympics other than having been related to participants."

I don't disagree with any of that, but I still don't see how it warrants or justifies a photo collage memorializing dead non-Olympians.

Ha!

That's hilarious.

It's nice that you're sensitive to those Americans (and screw NBC anyway), but can you tell me why there's a need to memorialize a (fairly random-seeming) selection of dead Americans at the beginning of the Olympics in the first place? Did any of them have any particular connection to the Olympics other than having…

Really? I'm surprised they can get the time off from work.

Oh, haven't you heard? You're not supposed to appreciate my attempts at contributing positively to the experience of reading Deadspin. It's not cool. A guy who spends his free time casting e-spells to defeat 13-year-old Japanese kids online when he's not kicking a ball as high as he can for a living told me so.

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I'm sorry Chris, but I have to take issue with your description of Samuel Clemens's reaction to our attempts at humor, only because I'd imagine it's probably hard for him to spin in his coffin ever since Garrison Keillor dug him up and turned him into a folksy pair of suspenders.

What's your favorite flavor of Halls®? How many do you carry in your cardigan?

Ha!

I've read and heard that many prominent sportswriters are atrocious spellers who regularly butcher basic grammar and syntax before their editors cobble their stuff into readable form.

That's hilarious.

No, we don't know that at all: that scenario is a hypothetical, whereas we're dealing with what really happened. Which is that Deadspin didn't cover a not-particularly-newsworthy story on a day when it also didn't cover many stories of much greater news value. If you're looking for an analog that applies, this is…