We called it the Back-back. It was awesome. And, in retrospect, pretty damn dangerous.

I agree with about half of your comment! Camden Yards is a deeply pleasurable experience, made even moreso by the fact that tickets are, at most, $15. BUT - as a witness of the “Free the Birds”-era protests, there is still an element of shame in giving my fiscal approbation to the absolutely hideous product they’re…

“Apparently they may kill Kinja too.”

They haven’t actually given him a paycheck in 14 months. He just shows up and does his thing every day regardless of what’s going on, like a ghost cat that remembers the layout of its old house.

Me, a couple years ago: “Man, io9, Deadspin and the A.V. Club are my 3 go-to sites for work-day time wasting. I sure am glad they’re on stable footing and can’t possibly be destroyed by a one-two punch of Kinja and corporate fuckery.”

Me, now: “Welp. 1 out of 3 ain’t bad I guess.”

At this point in these hopelessly terrible Orioles’ season, if he’s sitting in the front row in the bottom of the first, you can bet he bought nosebleed tickets and never went to his actual seat.

Truth. And greetings, either fellow O’s fan or current Braves fan(?).

The worst part of this experience is that there’s now incontrovertible video proof that he attended an O’s game.

I can’t take any minivan concept seriously unless there’s at least one (ideally two) car seat or booster seat, and the entire middle of the car is awash in a foot-deep drift of toys, discarded sweaters, used tissues, and fossilized Cheerios.

Dang, is Sarah Barker still around here? She had a byline last month, it looks like. Her perspective would be valuable for this story.

Booo. Disney shitcanned Harlan Ellison for less - though granted that was decades ago. But I wonder if these kinds of things had gotten back to them in an official capacity.

Haha, you’d think so, right? In practice, I’m not surprised if “random” testing tends to have weird, inexplicable clusters around top-placing athletes and those who seem to be over-performing at any given time.

You’re not being a jerk at all!

You may not be familiar with sports such as powerlifting. By an large, any trained super-heavy-weight will always lift more than a regular heavyweight, and so-on down the line.

By the Court of Arbitration’s own admission, it is “discriminatory - but that the discrimination was “necessary, reasonable and proportionate” to protect “the integrity of female athletics”.”

Yeah this makes sense to me, and is well put. I definitely agree about the sociological drive behind women’s sports, which is not something I included in my earlier response, but it’s important to consider.

Dolphin’s ok. They’re so cute! Lookit the little fellas. So playful!

I agree with your second point mostly. I don’t have the background to authoritatively agree or disagree with your first point, since I’m not sure where the medical community (or the sports community, or anyone else) draws a line between “female,” “intersex,” and “male.”

I was disappointed to learn the answer wasn’t a track-side accident involving a disintegrator ray and a transporter.

All right. Please explain what you mean?