75%, which is also the Pats' winning percentage in the ~20 reg season games Brady has missed due to injury/suspension.

This is the correct view. It’s just easier to pretend that none of the films after “Return of the Jedi” ever happened.

Yes, but “total profit” means that domestic gross is more important. Studios realize a far higher percentage of the take from domestic than they do from international gross, where almost as a matter of course they have (or are required to) enter into partnerships with foreign distributors who take their slice off the…

BINGO!

You’re omitting the “Signed free agent Peyton Manning” bit there.

Unlikely they would have traded Young, since there was no salary cap until 1994.

“Compulsive, rude, & gross” sounds about right. Not something that deserves mention in the Weinstein conversation, and not something that should preclude him from working again.

He wasn’t saying it was “okay.” He was saying it’s not the same thing as “malicious sexual assault.” When stuff like this (and Louis C.K.) is lumped in with Harvey Weinstein & Bill Cosby, it does a disservice to thr victims of their horrors, because most people correctly see different levels of severity between…

Yeah, but then he probably supplemented that info with the incriminating circumstantial evidence of the Wells Report, from which reasonable people concluded that there was a long-standing pattern of cheating.

He says he doesn’t remember. If he was drunk (as Rapp says he was), should we consider the possibility that Spacey is telling the truth?

Have you considered the possibility that Gretchen Mol is not telling the truth?

Fun fact: I actually had Huddleston as a prof for a PoliSci class back in the late 90s. His style of management and administration is right out of the David Roselle playbook: spend lots of $$ on superficial bullshit around campus, cut $$ from services, and never ever stop stroking alumni fatcats. That’s how you get to…

The scene in no way suggests that Vader’s core is “pure”. In fact, it’s the opposite of pure: it’s conflicted, between good and evil, between love and hate.

That’s called nuance, bud. Don’t be afraid of it, it’s how quality storytelling usually reveals itself.

Bingo!

1. The issue to be litigated is whether or not Goodell can levy the punishment against Brady, per the disciplinary/arbitration processes laid out in the Collective Bargaining Agreement. It won’t (or shouldn’t be, really) a trial of fact, so the shoddy/inconclusive science will be irrelevant.

2. Even stipulating for…

Yes, but I think it’s a bit far-fetched to assume that Ms. Kinsman had Mel Kiper’s 2015 Big Board up on her computer back in 2012.

The problem with the idea that Kinsman somehow “targeted” Winston, it seems to me, is that at the time of the alleged incident he had not even started a game for FSU. A blue chip recruit, to be sure, but for this to be true, Kinsman would have to be savvier than a scout/GM who gets paid to project pro success for a…

This joke—along with your replies to all of the illiterate, impatient mouth-breathers that follow—has been the best thing I've read on Deadspin in quite a long time. Well played.

*doffs cap*

Even if everything she says about this guy is true, she is just an awful, awful person for doing this. Her "explanation" post just confirms it.

Well, "proof" is the weasel-word here, isn't it? The way that it is used in the OP seems designed to preemptively dissuade anyone from doubting her allegations; apparently a responsible cross-examination of testimony (and of a witness' propensity for fabrication) falls under some nebulous umbrella called "blaming the…