The thing is that the NFL happens to make so much money that it also makes a mockery of the concept, but I don't think it's especially a bad concept. (The NBA isn't tax exempt, or at least it hasn't been for the last several years, but I assume it could have been, and I assume it was kind of a "good citizen" /…

More or less, but plenty of other commissioners have had the exact same job description and, uh, didn’t exactly start handing out free grenades to be lobbed at them.

Because the NFL - not "the NFL" as shorthand for the league AND its 32 teams, but the actual league infrastructure WITHOUT the 32 teams - is not a for-profit enterprise. It doesn't exist to generate revenue; it isn't a real business. The 32 teams are for-profit enterprises. The NFL simply exists as an organization…

Well if the Orioles can just hurry up and win the World Series by tonight, maybe the riots will be confused for the “excusable” kind.

“...just noticing anything he says feels like dead-horse beating.”

Its scary how many men I’ve met that talk/think like Stephen A. Smith. I feel like men like him (and even scumbuckets like Floyd M.) represent the status quo. It’s really weird...I feel like we are going backwards.

No. That’s just incorrect. It would be a fairer (albeit still incorrect) position if Rafael never discussed Mayweather’s personal life, but he did. He wrote articles immediately before and after Mayweather went to jail praising him for his mental strength. He allowed Mayweather’s lawyers to dissemble to his audience…

I hope this goes viral. This deserves to to be read by everyone.

I’ll be honest: I have much more respect for Beadle’s stand than Olbermann’s. Beadle actually works in boxing - she’s done great work on The Fight Game - and she had a lot to lose by coming out both against Rice/Smith and Mayweather. She even apologized for her own softball interview of Mayweather before she was aware…

But there a lot of people there who do good work despite the financial incentives to the contrary. Actual journalism and such. SAS is smearing the good work they do by association.

IMG, I haven’t watched a boxing match in years (and was never really a follower of the sport), but I still routinely end up reading your articles because they always deliver. This one’s no different. Thank you for your work.

This is tremendous, IMG.

It’s just so so dumb and shortsighted of ESPN that Stephen A. Was near this guy. This was a huge chance for the network to get on solid ground about domestic violence as they seemed to be heading that direction, but assigning a guy who has already been suspended for insensitive comments to a POS woman beaters’…

Awful Announcing reports (via SportsGrid) on a disturbing First Take segment from earlier this month that escaped our notice, where Stephen A. Smith doubles down on his baseless defense of Floyd Mayweather, and belittles the female host of First Take, Cari Champion, in the process.

I’m not really the hugest fan of this new paradigm of judging an entire film based on a poster, or a still, or a production still. Everything on the Internet is either “BEST EVAR!!!11” or “worst episode ever” and this type of quick reaction with little substance isn’t really doing much to improve discourse.

Hardy’s charges were dropped in February after the victim, Nicole Holder, didn’t show up in court to testify.