Every childhood memory I have of vegetables features them either steamed or boiled. Steamed broccoli is worthless. If you’re lucky, there’s butter on it. Otherwise, steamed broccoli lives up to every bad stereotype of broccoli.

I also don’t think they should broadcast any games in arenas funded by taxpayer money. Makes it too political, you know?

So Jackie Robinson will never be mentioned again? No NFL highlights in October when all the players wear pink or any of the many holidays where MLB players wear red, white, and blue or camo? Cut away from games when the National Anthem is played? When MLB or the NFL has a work stoppage in a couple of years they will…

Lots of people, including athletes, have issues that affect them every day that they can’t escape. So telling them to shut up about what is affecting them so you can apathetically ignore them better is the height of privilege. Maybe try some empathy instead of expecting everyone to cater to your whims?

Because a lot of the people who provide us this entertainment do not have the ability to escape society’s problems. They also have a very limited window in their lives to take advantage of their platform.

To your point, politics is also pretty annoying when you’re structurally discriminated against as black, latinx,…

So no more political discourse and since keeping politics out of sports is so important to these folks, no more national anthem before games, no more god bless america during the 7th inning stretch, no more military fly overs before football games, no more military reunions, camo-hats or uniforms, or giant american…

Some of the most important sports stories ever are important because of their intersection with politics. How do you tell a politics-free version of the story of Jackie Robinson, or the Munich Olympics?

I mostly watch for the in-depth hockey highlights and analysis.

Good. Politics isn’t a topics for sports journalists to talk about because it can alienate their audience and negatively impact them personally.

Not everything does. But sometimes sports and politics (broadly defined) are going to intersect, and locking up when that happens like one of those fainting goats when it is frightened is worthy of derision. 

I was about to answer that I often put it on as background when I’m, say, folding laundry or cooking dinner so I can stay current with sports I don’t follow closely, but then I realized that I don’t actually do that anymore.

In general, I want more three pointers, not less.

I feel the same way about flights as movie theater guy. I know they are cramped, the whole experience can be stressful, but there’s a certain euphoria I get when I’m buckled in, and have absolutely no control or obligations for the next x amount of hours. (save for not being an ass to other passengers.) I’ve been…

Like hundreds of other readers, I was worried about you to the point of being mildly embarrassed; we are total strangers. I’m glad you’re ok.

Get well Drew.

I work with children with disabilities. For the past 3 months, I have been working with a 7-year-old who had a stroke. He is back to walking recently. Last week, I walked into his 2nd-grade classroom to get him. He was sitting with a group of kids on the floor doing some lesson. He saw me and immediately got up on his…

Re: Walking,

God this is so eerily similar to what happened to me, same injury, generally same set of circumstances (had been drinking but not overly so), same general consequence. Thank you for sharing this experience. It brings me back to that scary time but it’s also oddly cathartic for someone to go through something so…

WIFE: Do you want the windows open?
ME: Nah, I’m fine.
WIFE: Okay I’ll open the windows a little.

I also believed, for some reason, that a celebrity chef (no idea who) was killed at the same bar the night I bashed my skull in. And that I was a person of interest in that chef’s death. Please know that no famous chef died that night