Merv Griffin is one of television history's greatest minds, and this is the guy who basically took over for Merv Griffin. He's renowned for how he has kept both shows fresh and relevant while leaving the basic rules and structure the same as they have been for decades.

I would not have guessed that an email chain regarding the NFL, Wheel of Fortune, and Jeopardy! would have been that entertaining. One thing I can say - that guy Harry is balls out genius for his suggestion.

Yup. ESPN certainly employs its fair share of bullshit-peddlers and controversy-inciting penii with mouths attached, but their investigative guys (Van Natta, TJ Quinn, the Fainaru brothers) are accurate, well-sourced and damn good reporters.

He'd have money for the final round; he's proven he has quite the knack for double jeopardy

"So, Commissioner Goodell, would you say that this issue entirely boils down to semantics?"

Natta was on the BS report a week or two ago, and he did not sound like a guy who would just take the word of a defense attorney. He spoke as though he had several sources for most if not every part of that story.

Just relying on the sample of emails here, it's really something to see Leslie Ryan just fucking cower off, after all the pretty promises made to Friedman that were clearly total fucking bullshit.

You don't get to be on Final Jeopardy when you have negative money.

"We exemplify multi-generational co-viewing."

Looking forward to Goodell appearing on Celebrity Jeopardy and being unable to phrase his responses in the form of a question and changing his Final Jeopardy wager after the fact.

Absolutely. That guy came up with a genius idea, seemingly out of the blue.

Friedman's idea for a fix is excellent. Someone implement that, please.

And as per usual, Kotaku vastly over-estimates the strength of incoming Hearthstone cards. There's a small amount of power creep with GvG it's true - but few of these cards are going to factor into it. A number of these cards are really only good if your opponent has an empty board, but I like this kind of thing, so…

+1 for using the word "cuckolded" on Deadspin, excellent choice

Somewhere along the line people (not just athletes) started deciding publicly exposing the cheater was worth everyone now knowing you were cheated on.

I don't know what the big deal is- if you can get Russell Wilson for Joe Fauria, you take that trade in ANY league.

cock-blocktopus made me snort tea out of my nose

I laughed so hard at every joke in this piece people think I have Robin Williams in my office doing stand-up from 1986. OMG. OMG Lindy.

My darling Lindy,