I’m not much of a fight fan (and am even less of an MMA guy) but I read this piece based solely on that lede popping up in the front page teaser.

Harden also blew a fatty when he was with OKC in the 2012 Finals. They almost certainly wouldn’t have won no matter what, but this was the general tone of discussion in the aftermath of that series:

That “Be honest with yourself” tip is the best, most important one on here. The couple times I’ve had rough times, including one really REALLY bad time on acid, it had everything to do with the scenario I was in and me being in a shaky way emotionally. In each case, I knew better than to do the drugs but did them…

Lost in the hubbub over the impressiveness of Russ’ feat:

You were on vacation, though. I eat like a hog when I know I’m there for a few days, but if I lived there I imagine it’d be a little different.

Yeah, that’s true. But in answering another guy in this thread, I found that Louisiana (where he’s from) is #1 in adult obesity rankings, and Alabama (where he played college val) is #2, and Wisconsin (where he’s lived for four years and had very public struggles with weight) is #19, whereas Washington is #37.

I live in Milwaukee, and have for ten of my thirty-three years. Now who’s generalizing, shitdick?

I can tell you as a non-native Wisconsin resident: the statewide diet here does things to people, especially the further away you get from Milwaukee and Madison. It is not a collection of eating and drinking habits engineered to bring the best out of nice country boys who like to play football and otherwise don’t mean…

Does he graduate his players?

I know this doesn’t really stem the hurt, from his perspective, but Glacier is one of the absolute best characters on WCW/NWO Revenge or Nintendo 64. He’s bad-fucking-ass! Which makes sense, given the Sub-Zero connection.

It’s so weird you say that about Butler, too, because at Marquette getting others involved was his signature skill, and why I was pretty sure he was going to be a good pro no matter where he landed. He did everything on offense, including running it for long stretches if the PGs were in foul trouble, and he could…

Ha. Basically.

You ever hear that story about how Keith Richards wrote the riff to “Satisfaction”? Apparently he got real high, sat down with a tape recorder, and scratched out the basic riff before passing out. When he played it back, the tape was a recording of him playing that riff a few times and then snoring for forty-five…

I wanted to get a political/current events magazine for a long time, and over the last eighteen months or so I’ve gone back and forth between The Atlantic and Harper’s. I’m not an elitist or a snooty Ivy league type, I was simply raised with magazines around the house and like a tactile thing to sit and chill with in…

Yeah, I shower regularly with soap and make a point to clean myself up if I can smell myself. I’m not an animal, I just don’t like deodorant or antiperspirant.

The good people in my life are very kind, that’s for sure.

Multivitamins make me nauseous. I tried to take them for a while but I got sick of feeling like butt every morning.

Totally. It got confusing as to when a play was even happening.

Hey friend, I really appreciate this. Thanks for the knowledge drop!

Of course fluoridated water is not natural. I’m not an idiot, and I’m not an anti-vaxxer. I just don’t like using deodorant/antiperspirant. There’s no real “health benefit” to it, for starters, as there is with daily washing and tooth brushing (and fluoridation), but even beyond that, I’ve not had any problems since I…