Can we talk about the fact that The Ringer is getting to be somewhere between good and really good, and yet Simmons is somehow the worst part of it? I think BS deserves a lot of credit for making things come together a second time and hiring some really talented folks, but his public interactions with them (partly due…

I really enjoy your writing, even though i disagree with a lot of your opinions. I am looking forward to what excuses you will have after Joshua has no answer for Wilder’s vicious right hand, and goes to sleep sometime in the middle rounds.

First ever Kinja post - inspired by your writing, Mr. Farrell.

Great article. Admirable when a journalist goes out on a limb, is proven wrong, then follows up by owning it. I thought both articles were very good. I’ll look out for your stuff from now on.

TLDR; the fix was still in, at least on the judges scorecards but Wilder managed to win due mostly to exhausting his opponent out to the point that he gave up because there was no gas left in the tank. So... sorry, not sorry?

Other “things I take back” articles coming soon to deadspin.com:

Oh good, the Michigan State child sexual assault fan rears his head again. We get it, dude, you think Tom Izzo is God.

The true wizard Otto Potter, son of Harry Potter, cannot be stopped by mere mortals.

I’ve worked under contract for multiple years of my life and have hired creative professionals under contract multiple times. I understand how they work. You’re arguing semantics about the word compulsion so, cool, I cede your point. Yes, a contract compels him to produce pages. However, it does not, and cannot, force…

The differences in peak ages is fascinating. In professional cycling - 25 and under are still “youth” and they compete for the young rider prize. In gymnastics and ice skating, 25 is dead.

It seems like with gymnastics the peak performance age is actually changing to around 18-19ish. Not just in the US either.

I don’t know. I reckon that if you took out the artistic parts, you’d actually get the peak to skew older: part of the reason why figure skaters and gymnasts, especially women, tend to peak so early is that there’s a deeply ingrained expectation that they have a certain youthful, lithe look that gets harder in late…

I think in football, at least in skill/speed positions like CB, RB and WR, the peak seems to be around 20 or 21. Guys with monster combine numbers rarely get close to that level after a few years in the NFL. I remember when they had the ‘veteran FA combine’ a few years ago and like every single guy who went had…

+1 abortion contract

Wow, quite the comments section on your last link. Holy shit-the cognitive dissonance is astounding. “I won’t use a picture of your mom as my avatar if you stop being a sketchy creep.” Perfect!

I have a daughter, I understand what it means to respect women.

Oddly enough it seem like they do find it creepy but still do it.

Or his own dad.

Well, I’m sure they didn’t know she was seventeen. Doesn’t excuse the comment whatsoever, it’s an offensive thing to say about anyone of any age, not to mention particularly creepy considering it’s a seventeen, but, again, I’m sure he just didn’t know that she was a mi-

When Natalie Portman recently shared her experience with males being very explicit in private and public about her sexualization far prior to her 18th birthday, it was sobering. Sadly, it was lost in the haze of speeches for the women’s march on 1/20/18 and the #MeToo movement’s daily enumeration of horrible people…