I disagree. Just like the original XFL, the ratings started strong and quickly fell off by more than half, and that was before the pandemic killed the season. Same thing happened to the ill-fated AAF, which declared bankruptcy and didn’t complete its first (only) season. The LA XFL team was giving away TEN packs of…

I have zero problem with Gard calling the timeout. The part where I think he was wrong was trying to stop Howard to explain himself in the heat of the moment immediately after the game. Juwan said “I’ll remember that” as he was walking by, that should have been the entirety of the incident and would have been if Gard…

The other thing is that the MAGAs who are gleefully using this as a wedge issue care not one whit about women’s sports in the first place, and were some of the loudest voices against the USWNT’s fight for equal pay.

Look, we get it, the Academy had never given Al Pacino an Oscar, so Scent of a Woman was its chance to finally fix that mistake.

WaPo has been tracking the number of people killed by cops for years now, and the average is about 1000 per year (roughly 3 per day). For 2018 and 2019, the FBI stats show a total of 104 police officers killed feloniously, an average of 1 per week. Granted that many of the cases of cops shooting people are ruled…

Fuck out of here with that WATA bullshit. No one actually wants to buy sealed games for thousands of dollars (excepting actual rarities like Stadium Events or Nintendo World Championships).

Guess it was time for Rodgers to shave off his beard again.

Great post. See also: the tech bros “disrupting” established industries by ignoring all the pesky stuff like labor laws and safety regulations.

I remember the first time I heard of Doja Cat was when Jezebel was telling me that she was cancelled for the second or seventh time. Total Streisand Effect.

Interesting. I still play the original on my iPad, but I just went to the site on my MacBook and got redirected to NYT as you said. They’re probably just lagging on the mobile implementation.

I think a “healthy” BDSM relationship has as its main goal the sexual gratification of the submissive partner. Which is why it seems to work best when the dominant partner is a sex worker getting paid to humiliate/control the submissive partner in ways the submissive partner is comfortable with and excited by. It’s…

First off, there’s no such thing as a “small market” team. The least populous NBA metro area is Salt Lake City with 1.25 million people. The advantages of bigger areas like LA and NY mean exactly zero if the people running the franchises make dumb decisions like putting together the 2015 All-Star squads in 2022.…

Of the 18 players who played significant minutes in the NBA Finals last year (9 for each team), only 3 were originally drafted by their teams - Giannis, Booker, and Ayton. To be fair, Cameron Johnson and Mikal Bridges of Phoenix were acquired on draft night itself and have never played for another NBA team. But that…

I have my fingers crossed for a Nets-Sixers playoff series where we can see the first ever basketball platoon system - Ben playing only in Brooklyn and Kyrie playing only in Philly.

See, you just don’t get it. Sure, the .jpeg of the hat is exactly the same for everyone, but the NFT saying this is hat 0x258fui23lkl324kl is TOTALLY unique, man!

Yep, eventually through the wonders of Web3 technology we will arrive at the amazing future of...scrip for the company store.

Who says he has to live there? He’s able to live in a rich neighborhood with a high cost of living BECAUSE he’s rich. Someone who owns a $5 million condo in a Manhattan high rise isn’t suddenly middle class because they don’t own the $100 million penthouse in that same building.

GTFOH with that “isn’t really rich” bullshit. I have zero qualms with him spending his money how he wishes and don’t even think it’s necessarily contradictory to his stated ideals (tbh, I haven’t seen enough of him to judge one way or the other), but even having the ability to purchase a $3 million house and $200K car…

Believing in corporate taxation and regulation is not socialism

A social democracy with a progressive tax structure funding the government to a level where universal healthcare and higher education are available doesn’t preclude someone from becoming wealthy and buying a Porsche. Sweden has like 40 billionaires.