This story highlights just how limited a professional athlete's rights to medical privacy have become.

Seriously! I don't expect Deadspin to be as classy as The New Yorker or anything, but you would think that they could meatus halfway.

As a rare fan of both soccer and NASCAR, right on.

"a slow case of aggressive diarrhea" — oh how I hate thee

Minor correction: The Vegas trip was in January 2013.

That's exactly the point that Pablo Torre made on Around the Horn today.

My specific experience was a student trip 20 years ago to London, Paris, and Rome. In each city we stayed at a three-star hotel that was generally quite decent. We were told to bring a shower curtain liner. Each hotel had a bare curtain rod in the bathroom.

Even fairly nice hotels in Europe rarely provide shower curtains. How could American media not know this?

As Elizabeth Bernstein has said, most work is labelled as slavery if it is unpaid and assumed to be performed willingly if paid. Sex is the exception in which this binary is reversed. http://www.amazon.com/Temporarily-Yo…

I'm sure that Suarez is chomping at the bit to top this.

Vegemite want to close that roof, huh?

I've never understood how Greggggggg reconciles his Baptist upbringing with his pantheism.

Anchor Splash is such false marketing.

And who the fuck voted for Jacques Jones and JT Snow?

Exactly. Also the New York Times said that much of their income goes straight into trusts for the rest of their family, and they lost a lot of money to Bernie Madoff.

Damn, I was sure you were joking. Good nugget!

See...I have hood envy, because my cut member tends to go numb at the worst possible moments. Also, I have heard complaints from women who were not raised here about the pervasive lack of foreskin Stateside.

I want to direct a Civil War melodrama, just so that I can cast her as a Confederate Colonel's daughter, whose fiancé' dies under his command.

I want to direct a Civil War melodrama, just so I can cast her as the Confederate Colonel's daughter whose fiancé dies in the war.