He's not acting. He's perfectly justified in doing what he's doing. His job is to try to win the NBA Championship. The relative importance of one game in that quest or the quest overall is immaterial. But if there's no inherent significance to what he's doing or trying to do, then his duty is not to provide…

The water must taste great because you guys really love going to the well on the whole "How big was Jay Z's Nets ownership stake?" thing.

That's exceptionally cynical. I tend to believe that even if Dems and Republicans were holding hands, skipping up and down Pennsylvania Avenue and the President's approval ratings were somewhere in the vicinity of 78%, the delegation would be exactly the same because it's the middle finger Russia deserves. I highly…

As sick as the shot is (and it's very sick), I can't help but love the fact that his momentum carried him out the door into the hallway...

Why does this bother you? Asking out of genuine curiosity, not to be snarky. You seem to understand the motivation for it. I'm sure you also recognize the possibility that a futbol post here might be received more broadly by a futbol audience who would expect it to see it written that way. So why is it a thorn?

I didn't realize you were still talking about the UA anecdote you shared, possibly because I think I already mentioned that I didn't find it particularly relevant. My apologies for that oversight. I stand by my opinion that it's irrelevant. I respect the fact that you wouldn't have shared it if you were inclined to…

You can remain as cynical as you deem appropriate about how things unfolded today. And the court of public opinion will do what it is going to do. But your fundamental point about "rape culture" is a broad one and it should not be conflated with hard facts about the specifics of this case. And while I'm impressed…

Okay, so now Jameis Winston is lying, the Tallahassee PD is lying, and I'm lying. If you can get Lee Harvey Oswald, Vince Foster, and President Obama wrapped up in the web of lies, then you'll only need to collect the 9/11 Inside Job achievement to unlock Level 10. Bra-fucking-vo.

You keep talking about logic and…

"You are jumping straight from no charges filed to "she is lying" which is a HUGE leap and not in any way substantiated by what we know."

Actually, I'm not doing that at all. I'm jumping from "they both say they had sex, the DNA evidence confirms this, he said it was consensual, she said it was rape, witness accounts…

According to the toxicology report, she wasn't. I'm not her. I wasn't drinking with her. So I don't know. All I have to go on is exactly what the investigators who made the decision had to go on.

I don't think you understand the way the justice system works. If your standard was how the system worked, anyone who has access to anyone else's DNA could implicate them in all sorts of crimes. The accuser made an accusation and stood by it. The accused denied the allegations. Witnesses offered statements…

I didn't just start watching sports last week, so I fully understand that town and gown make strange bedfellows (no pun intended) where athletes and jurisprudence are concerned. But your anecdote isn't relevant here. And neither is your sarcasm. You wrote "the incident wasn't even remotely in dispute" but one…

Maybe I'm wrong, but my understanding was that it was the accuser's roommate, not Winston's roommate.

As for your second paragraph... It's a not really a response to what I wrote. Do you really not believe that anyone has ever falsely accused anyone else of rape before? Google Tawana Brawley and get back to me. …

Can you offer any explanation for why two witnesses, both friends of the accuser, would offer statements contradicting hers if in fact they'd witnessed her being raped? I mean, I know it's convenient to say that this is the whole "star athlete faces no consequences" story all over again, but you seem unwilling to…

From my recollection of the timing, the witnesses were "clamming up" as soon as she claimed she was raped. If by "clamming up" you mean saying "no you weren't."

Besides rape, can you really not think of any reason why someone's semen might end up in another person's underwear after the two people were out drinking then left a bar together?

It can be problematic now. I just don't think any of that would add up to him being a "bust" because I don't think that word applies here. Reggie Lewis wasn't a bust because he had a heart condition. Len Bias wasn't a bust because he had a coke problem. Derrick Rose isn't a bust because he's had injuries in his…

You got solid quality responses here so I'm just writing to quibble with one thing: Derrick Rose is not a bust. When healthy, he plays his ass off and elevates his teammates. Two significant knee injuries do not change that reality. They will almost certainly change the nature of his game. And I'm sure it sucks…

But Ray Lewis is totally a murderer and stuff!

But The Decision... And he only wears that headband because... But, he's... not... clutch?