If any team deserves a mascot who actively hates the organization that employs him, it's the Sixers.

Everyone knows that if you want to catch an Oscar, you need to change your bait every once in a while. This year they happen to be biting at pretentiousness instead of white guilt.

use to work at the Rose Garden for a couple years. An old coworker posted this today:

"I argued that they should not have been stripped of their title because punishing them for recruiting players "out of boundary" is obscene when one considers everything a team that Jackie Robinson West has had to face when assembling a squad in the first place."

So their response to a guy grabbing his crotch is to then reintroduce the likelihood of a kickoff return, something the NFL considers one of the most dangerous plays of the game because it leads to a high incidence of concussions and something they've pushed pretty hard to get rid of by moving the ball up to the 35?

No, the point is that the action was so minor that it did not (and could not) affect the game to any appreciable degree. Therefore a minor offense deserves a minor penalty. If they had done something that had a large impact on the game then they would deserve a large punishment.

I agree that the takes are crazy but I'm confused at how often people say, "they may have cheated, but they would have won anyway." Is that the way it works, now? You only have to follow the rules to the degree that you can plausibly say breaking them didn't affect the outcome?

Literally my whole life was feeling responsible for my parent's feelings. It's horrible and it's only in the past year that I've been able to actually disengage from it, but it's guilt like no other.

My mother has a lot of mental health issues (bipolar depression and borderline personality disorder) and she doesn't process guilt at all well. So she denies things so aggressively and persistently that you start to wonder if they ever really happened. I am (mostly) estranged from her because she was emotionally…

You have to respect this level of premeditated trolling. Walton ordered the book, brought it to the game, waited for his chance on live tv.

It's narcissism masquerading as empathy for people who demand to be noticed for their piety.

What about St. Louis Lager, which is actually from Botswana?

My parents still do not own a high-definition television, which means that I gotta rough it with standard def for two of the biggest games of the year. This is obviously the worst thing that has ever happened in the history of human civilization...

When you look to the Oscars to do some Big Grand Gesture About Society, you know what you get? Crash winning Best Picture over Brokeback Mountain, Capote and Good Night and Good Luck.

I remember when people were really going to the mattresses about Idris Elba playing Heimdall in that shitty first Thor movie. And, yeah, OK, it's true— people flipping out about that were racist. But on the other hand, this you celebrate and go to war for? A black actor playing a totally nothing part in a terrible…

I think its just a poorly written script that started with writing episode 4, 5, and 6. Then 30 years later writing episodes 1, 2, and 3. Keep in mind also that Obi Wan did not recognize R2D2 even though they have a rich history together.

Come on people, George wasn't planning shit and we all know it by now.

Sadly, the whole point of putting Luke on Tattooine was that it's out of the way and Vader couldn't find him there. Then some idiot decided we needed Tattooine in the prequels, and bam, lore continuity ruined forever.