While I agree, somewhat, in principle, considering they’re entirely optional things with no bearing on the match - and, at least offline, you can literally pause and look at the fatality - I don’t have much of a problem with this. Weird comparison, but I think of it like I think of items in mobile games like Candy…

Lifelong Warriors fan, still can’t fully wrap my head around the idea of them as prohibitive favorites to at least make the Finals and possibly win it all. Wow.

Two points there: One, Josie Harris isn’t a public figure who gets interviewed on national television and has children (aside from her own) using her as a role model. That doesn’t make her actions less wrong, but it does mean we should probably spend more time on Mayweather’s, as that’s who people are currently…

While I definitely think Floyd’s race plays a role in some people’s thought process, it’s far from the only thing. I’m young, black and frankly enjoy some personality every so often...Andrew McCutchen, Cam Newton, PK Subban, Lewis Hamilton, Steph Curry etc. As long as they’re not also busy looking like assholes and…

IT’S LIKE RAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNN

You know, I can’t stand the Yankees and I’m not A-Rod’s biggest fan either, but I’ve increasingly believed he got shafted by MLB/the Yankees just as Bonds did by the Giants/MLB/pretty much everyone. So fuck all of them, an All-Star berth would be hilarious. I’m in.

I know this is an old comment, but...

^Exactly. Probably 80% of sports fandom is inherently irrational if you stop and think about it, but that doesn't slow most of us. Things you'd normally consider completely ok are crazy in that context and vice versa.

I’d say that’s pretty fair, but respond in two ways.

The thing is, though, that’s pretty much exactly what happened in the NFL, and what always happens. Obviously there’s a much longer timeframe between changes but gaming as a medium moves faster in general.

UCLA also carries almost unimaginable pressure. It’s not that Texas isn’t a pressure cooker in its own right...but it’s a football school. Barnes was there 17 years. Meanwhile, you can rattle off on one hand the other schools that would have as much basketball pressure as UCLA: Kentucky, Indiana, Kansas, UNC, Duke.

Fellow SCU grad, though much more recent so pretty much all we've got in terms of great basketball memories are 90s Nash tapes.

Forgot about Oakland University, which is in...Michigan.

I think my issue would be that "we" (the general Tebow-neutrals so to speak) can't win if he returns, when it comes to the sizable Tebow fanbase, due to the outside factors. If he succeeds (even temporarily, like in Denver), the discussions will be insufferable about how he was shut out due to Christianity and the…

That's probably fair - Jimmy Clausen is still on a roster - but it's the rare case where the distraction is fans really, really want the backup to play, not that the backup has other "issues". Michael Sam doesn't really have any experience, AP or Ray Rice would piss people off but are also more talented, but Tebow…

*If you're in a small conference. Kentucky (or let's go less obvious...Michigan State) can blow a conference tourney game and still get in, but a 27-5 Murray State team cannot.

I really like and respect the Spurs as an organization, partially because - unlike the Cardinals - at least to my memory most of the actual members of said organization don't spend so much time blathering on about how they're so special. The media and fans, sure, but not the actual team members.

I'm actually impressed at the sleuthing here...though I wonder what the motivation would be to look that up at that level of detail if you're not a fan. Automatic doubt of the story?

Largely because in that case it would be one Spanish girl cheating on one man. Even if you somehow managed to get cheated on by a hundred Spanish girls, this would still be one person's experience. You might even be a member of a "Guys Who Got Cheated on By Spanish Girls" club...but it would still be a largely…

I think what OP is saying isn't that they feel bad for them at all, but that while they're getting deservedly singled out because they picked on someone famous there are a lot of other assholes doing things like this to people who aren't famous and they're not getting punished because nobody else noticed. The…