This sucks. I mean, I’m totally on board with the players, who absolutely should earn a living wage and have health insurance. It’s just really unfortunate that a professional women’s hockey league isn’t a sustainable financial thing. I can’t really blame Bettman here (and I can find a way to blame him for pretty much…

If you were a Bengals fan, you'd think life was cheap, too.

Perhaps the most bizarre part of this story is that a quick bit of googling does not provide a single other outlet covering this story. Not a one. Either unions are far less relevant than I knew or this is a bacon double nothingburger.

Best response to hockey flopping:

Let’s do this quantitatively, shall we?

If these non-calls went against literally any other player in the league, I’d be outraged. But James Harden is probably the all-time leader in points scored off bullshit contact fouls, so he can get fucked.

For the life of me, I can’t figure out why someone who has his shit together as much as Josh Rosen seems to wants to play professional football, but c’est la vie. I wish him well and I hope enough of his brain stays intact to go into politics or activism or something once his playing days are done.

Did they check his teeth too? Jesus.

I’m not saying this is all about race, but Geno Smith is the only black quarterback ever to start a game for the Giants. And that’s all he started: a game.

I still haven’t gotten beyond the fistfight in the first town they go to. The plague of “press a button to start a complex animation that makes it seem like something is happening” that started with GTA V seems so much worse here. Is there a reason to press on? (At this point, I’ve almost completely forgotten the…

999 times out of 1000, I abhor violence in sports. But if someone took it upon himself to perform a little dentistry on Brad Marchand, I would not object.

Who knew Drew's kid was a Deadspin commenter?

Can we talk about how assy that red Giants helmet is in the lede gif?

Other than inside the bowl cut of the Raiders' owner, he's not.

Having suffered a similar injury (which my physical and occupational therapists charmingly referred to as an “insult to the brain”) several years ago, I offer to Drew my best wishes for a sustained recovery and a recommendation to find a REALLY good therapist to help through the recurring grief for all the parts of…

Neither do I, but no one’s writing gossip columns about me.

That is really fucking great.

This is high quality hockey writing. I enjoyed it immensely.

Good lord. First unwritten rules, now contextual stats. No wonder I can’t get into this sport.

Who actually gives a fuck? HRC is about as relevant as month-old dogshit. If any public figure looks to her for guidance or leadership at this point, they deserve oblivion.