So sorry to read this, hoping he’ll be ok. 

Understandable given that athletic supporters are sad sacks.

Ha! I suspect you might be right.

Disclaimer: rampant speculation here. I’d guess that the “sex tape” might be referring to Dwight Howard’s accuser, who some thought was trans (but is a gay man). That would explain the clumsiness, and why the Warriors/Curry might understandably push back against the description of the conversation. 

Heh. I suddenly feel like I handed them an excellent idea for implementation, oof. Uh, journalism companies, if you use this, can I get, uh, a Starbucks gift card? heh. 

You have a point, sorry if I seem overly contentious. I used to be more on Team Notify, but it just seems more and more like people are trying to get people they disagree with fired. Maybe I’ve just seen one too many Tumblr/Twitter posts of that kind, haha.

I get where you’re coming from, but think of where that kind of surveillance culture takes us. Every annoyed Internet troll (which is kind of what happened here) could spout wild lies about the person and defame their name to employer. This kind of tattletale culture is usually horrid for everyone.

^THIS. What, they’re supposed to Google Alert their current part-timers just in case? 

Wishing you well, Drew, and hope that these well-wishes are encouraging during this hard time.

There’s definitely a hypocrisy element at work here: if her ratings were better, this would be smoothed over, etc.

I’ve been here off and on since...2006? or so. While at some point I downsized my Deadspin time, I never quit, even though I had more enlightened minority blog friends who explained in detail why the site was so awful. But yeah, I can go down a similar list of incidents without even repeating anything on your list.…

Yeah, we’re all really selective about what we remember to give ourselves the benefit of the doubt, but usually some people knew it was wrong. Founding Fathers is an example, Ben Franklin figured out it was wrong, so you can’t claim that “it was a different time and no one said anything.”

Love the St. Augustine quote. Yeah, fair. But I think experience matters a bit more than age, although they’re of course a bit interchangeable. If a man doesn’t have an experience where (1) a woman is clearly superior to you in your favorite thing and/or (2) you’re pushed to care deeply about a woman’s feelings…

Your point on empathy is a good one. Many of my blogging regrets now were because of my previous lack of empathy. My mindset back then was “I meant well, so how can this woman complain that my column on, say, Serena Williams is bad? I’m the good guy!” Uh, no.

Yeah that was an interesting revisionist moment. 

The other issue too is that if Barstool wants to go back 10 years for comparison, they were always way worse. Barstool has a lot more to lose at every step. 

“Twelve years ago, I received no such feedback; in fact, it was the opposite—all those +1s. I was allowed and encouraged to be cruel, and so I was.”

Good points. But I kind of like this as an update into how the WNBA star system is evolving, and a comparison point for the NBA. (The author wasn’t explicit about that, understandably, but I kind of see it). The strategy of moving to a top market/home now and looking to collect players around you later didn’t work for…

I enjoyed the DS “What have you done for me today” perspective when I thought it was a sly joke on media coverage of the Cup. Not so sure anymore.

If you were to rank Belgium, England, and Portugal in order as to which goes deepest in the tournament, what would be your ordering?