Abood v. Detroit Board of Education was settled law for 40 years and SCOTUS overturned it just last week with Janus v. AFSCME. Do you think that they changed their mind because of some radical new understanding of 1A? Nah. They saw an opportunity to smack at organized resistance to the corporatist agenda and they took…

the collective bargaining equivalent of a plea deal. The city doesn’t just hand down a disciplinary action and that’s the end of it. Cop has a right to grieve (read: appeal) the action under his union’s contract. I don’t know the specifics, but that process inevitably has multiple steps, probably ending in final and…

What? Okay, let’s review.

Thank you. My first thought when I saw the headline was, “Holy shit, Cam Ward still plays in the NHL.” Then my SECOND thought was, “Eh, bet it’s no butt goal.” As you have neatly proven, it is, in fact, no butt goal.

This is, without question, the greatest moment I have ever had as a UB alumnus.

...wait, Arizona lost to UB? HOLY SHIT, THAT MAKES IT EVEN BETTER!

The only thing of importance I took away from this is that there is apparently a Chess revival coming this year and I AM REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THIS AND HAVE NO SHAME ADMITTING IT ON THIS HERE SPORTS BLOG.

Helloooooo!

I prefer to imagine that they took the tarps off for regular season games, but only in mid-January, after it stopped mattering even less than usual. “Well, we could have removed the tarps in week 14. But lets take them off for the divisional round! ...which is being played elsewhere!”

He’s not. He works for the Sabres.

Speaking from experience, they will not give that guy a raise.

I now see that I was once again thwarted by Kinja and this complaint was already well-made by several people below. I leave my rant here for posterity only, I guess.

Papa Murphy’s is possibly the most useless pizza chain in human history. For those of you fortunate enough never to have encountered one, the hook is this: you have to cook the fucking pizza yourself. Their entire business model is, essentially, “We sell frozen pizza, but not frozen, so it’s better!” And people…

I would like to thank Burneko for introducing the phrase “jump-kicked in the dick” into my life. I am going to casually drop it in conversations as much as possible for the foreseeable future.

Potential dick jump-kicking conversation starters:

It’s open to interpretation, but I’m guessing they’re doing Castlevania III, since I see what appears to be versions of three of the game’s four playable characters. (I’m not 100% on whether or not Alucard’s in there...)

Osteria, on Franklin. Walked past them on the way back from lunch. Seriously thought I hallucinated that shit.

The general consensus is that he didn’t run anything at the draft, and that Sean McDermott called all the shots. It leaked last Wednesday that the scouting staff was apparently aware that they were all about to be fired.

I’m surprised they didn’t have another ambulance on site. Most buildings I’ve been in have two on site; not because of situations like this, but because it’s unbelievably awkward to have an ambulance on site and visible that can’t be used in the event of a serious medical problem for a guest because that might stop…

Yeah, I don’t see how Bucknor getting on the PA and announcing “I actually don’t know the rules of baseball, and I was actually trying to call intentional grounding on Verlander” over and over is going to improve the game experience.

Also, it looks like you are the guy keeping NHL hockey in Arizona, so I want to give you props for that. Hang in there, man. You deserve a lot better.

And, yes, “crushingly boring” is a wild exaggeration, but... hey, Deadspin!