And the answer to “what would it possibly take to make Steven A. Smith and Tony Kornhesier seem like rational, reasoned journalists” turns out to be “Contrast them with Curt Schilling.” Good to know.

Benzema would not be called up to the national team’s roster for this summer’s all-important Euro tournament because of his involvement in the Valbuena sex tape scandal.

According to Sports Illustrated’s Richard Deitsch, ESPN was prepared to offer Bayless around $4 million annually.

But who will be ESPN’s Roman Reigns?

And even if the series were 1-2-1 then you’d need something to break the tie, like maybe total points on the table?

Photography really is all about angles and lighting.

Rick was shot in the line of duty...

I think “Lucky” is just pale. That hair looks like it’s been bleached so hard that a strong wind would break it apart.

While I do not understand what style “Lucky Blue Smith” has, I do admire the fact that it has somehow manifested a more androgynous form than Tilda Swinton. That alone is worthy of notice.

To the people passing these laws, this logic only applies to gun control. We’ve got laws against murder, so we don’t need background checks. And they wouldn’t work anyway because murders gonna murder.

One can certainly parse this response;

This can’t possibly be right. It’s not even a good idea. The Raiders only have two colors, and neither of them is yellow. I don’t think of black when I think of the Lions. I could see the Broncos choosing blue over orange, but why not be the only orange uniform? I can’t even imagine why the Vikings wouldn’t do purple…

Only because none of their opponents ever thought to try to play full court defense, obviously.

No because ownership would still be trying to tank the team to prove St Louis fans “aren’t dedicated” since they don’t want to buy season tickets to a perennial loser.

You just described all Georgia state-level legislation.

Twitter is awful. The majority of the replies to Darren Rovell are about how Cardale Jones got the wrong homonym when he tried to type “their”.

“He always played because he loved the sport. Not for any other reason.”

Every Opening Day is every Opening Day - it means no more than tomorrow’s game.

ETA: apparently 2-3 people got there before me. But I have a screen shot to go with my link. So there’s that. Either way, it’s good stuff...

While I agree in principal, they aren’t always on the wrong side of things: