This feeds into debunking one of the great narratives of the stadium grift. Every shitbag rich guy tries to tell you that a staidum will “revitalize” the surrounding area or “provide a downstream impact on local businesses” or whatever snake oil they sell to get taxpayer money.

I watched the Wiz last night with John Wall dunking all over small white men, and it sounded like a preseason game in a college arena at like Temple or something.

Right and I don’t necessarily mind those empty calorie transplant fans. I mean, they’re generally career obsessive type-A bros, but at least they’re putting butts in the seats and contributing to an atmosphere. And believe me, some of them really do adopt those teams in a genuine manner.

As a lifelong DC native I have my opinions on this. I do not root for the Caps, Nats or Dan Snyder’s Landover monstrosity. The one team I do love with all my heart is the Wizards and seeing how D.C. treats the Wizards makes me believe that this sports curse is well earned.

For some reason I love watching Portnoy and Clay Travis get in their little online scuffles. It’s just a shame one of them has to win.

I’ve followed Barstool for quite some time now. Not as a reader but more of an observer who has watched it grow from a regional blog to the behemoth it is today in the span of a decade. The least redeeming quality for some of my friends is that they’re big Barstool fans. They aren’t full blown “Stoolies” who harass…

Well, he’s got a great coach in Brad Stevens, who I’m sure will surprise everyone with how well he fits Matt Cassel into the rotation.

As awful as this event was, I find myself truly fascinated by what you described in your post. It’s like the opening sequence to a cliched sports movie. I’m still having a hard time wrapping my mind around such a spectacular unraveling of a carefully built plan. I can’t recall a time that I’ve ever seen a sports…

Imagine you’re Danny Ainge. You have spent years building a team that can finally beat Cleveland. You exercised the patience of a monk, waiting for Hayward to become a free agent. That was the guy he had long been targeting and been linked to Boston for years. You fight tooth-and-nail to yank him away from the team…

When I was a kid, I used to wonder, “What does ESPN stand for?”

Each line snorted represents a white line in the flag. It’s probably the most patriotic thing he could do.

Last time a hurricane went through and there was flooding, JJ still made his way to the team training facility, through flood waters and with a local curfew in effect, to get his workout in and made it seem like anybody who didn’t was weak. He’s a Glory Boy and maybe he can spend the rest of the year trying to not be…

For asking for money?

Can we not reward these neckbeard losers for throwing temper tantrums because they didn’t get their cartoon sauce?

“There are worse horror stories, too; people are reporting fights breaking out, lines blocking traffic...” people driving for 40 minutes and then spending an hour in line...

In 2015, the FBI flew secret spy planes above protests in Maryland over the death of Freddie Gray at the hands of the Baltimore police

This is what happens when you let a bunch of Silicon Valley souless tech ghouls run NBA teams. They take the same capital vampiring approach as they do with some dumb startup that intentionally leaves out the final vowel in its name. They inherenty want to depress labor value and salary, to bleed every last drop out…

So what exactly is preventing them from revealing the content of the note? They confirmed it was from him, what else is stopping them? Just show us the damn note.

I think that would happen most directly on the radio. Lebatard is the guy that does that on the radio and he’s helped people like Bomani Jones, Sarah Spain, Pablo Torre, Domonique Foxworth, and Mina Kimes got a ton of shine and none of them are known for staying quiet about things.

I’m curious to see how she’s going to blend in there. You’re taking someone who’s brand was built on her almost counter culture personality. Garbage Time was like the punk rock to the rest of the televised sports Top 40 pop blandness.