is 1.4 seconds enough time to realize the person walking on the track is the kid and not someone else, decide to intimidate him in a specific way, and then try to do it? i’m doubtful of that. i think he barely had time to try to get out of the way of the guy.

holy shit

i also agree except for the lopsided record in favor of RF. your points about DelPo are much more applicable to RF’s rivalry with Nadal - but that said, everything you say is true right now.

as big an RF fan as i am, i love me some JMDP. i think it’s likely that if he stays healthy this year he’ll be one of the favorites along with Roger at Wimbledon. i can’t believe it was the US Open and not Wimbledon he won, but the fact that they changed the grass and slowed down the playing surface (despite the…

ok much of what you say sounds reasonable. except why not add a few gun laws? why not make it harder to get guns?

that’s mostly because you only hear about deaths if you’re not part of the community. when you’re into this sport you read/hear about successes all over the world all the time, deaths are a rare (but always sad) story that transcends the discrete climbing world - and as such become the narrative for the general…

this is very reminiscent, if not directly derivative, of Nick Park’s Creature Comforts:

the ‘panic room’ incident you’re describing occurred at 6am. someone she didn’t recognize appeared on her security cameras, and she asked her assistant to call 911. unless you know something i don’t, it seems like you’re assuming she was trying to get out of the test when she actually could have simply been concerned…

really happy for him, Gojowczyk may have been hurting (a bit more noticeable in the second set, Tiafoe wasn’t going to lose the first no matter how the German’s leg was feeling) but Tiafoe had to keep his head together. i think he’s going to be a force, he was poised in the big moments on Sunday. great story.

There are criminals here, and it’s not the kids getting a few thousand dollars, and it’s not the recruiters working under terrific market pressures and being kept in check by historically lax enforcement.

The Gift

White may have done right by this woman in private, and who knows what the settlement was. i also agree that in many of these cases the punishment hasn’t fit the crime, and the public shaming/internet mob thing can be overdone.

i saw this exchange last night, on the Tennis Channel the broadcasters were talking about how it was nice to see two guys getting so fired up about an early round match in a 250 tournament. the way Young handled the handshake at the end of the match made it obvious he was still super angry, so clearly something was…

haha there are some moments when i’ve seen kind of a Geddy Lee thing, Richard Kind is a great call

the last two grand slam tournament draws have been kind of nuts, and particularly easy for the eventual champs. i’d say that Nadal’s draw at the US Open was slightly easier, but this was the easiest draw Federer has ever faced en route to a GS title.

um they often do something called ‘fundraising’; they’re aboe to get people or companies who’d like to use their adventures for advertising purposes, i think they’re called ‘sponsors’; and spend every dollar they earn on their climbing trips.

simply not true. there is a whole bunch of shit you don’t know about climbing, unsurprisingly enough.

it’s not at all like setting yourself on fire, and the ‘death zone’ is an artificial boundary colloquially invented by Jon Krakauer for Into Thin Air.

Hole in the Ocean Floor

one more thing - saw the following mind blowing stat on ESPN. this Australian Open final was the 200th of the open era. that means that with 20 grand slam titles Federer has won 10% of the grand slam tournaments played in modern times.