Really great article, enjoyed that.

Oh yeah I wasn’t really being serious, although you mention totally circular tracks do exist? That’s sort of neat. But as you say, that’d sort of mess with you after a while I’m sure. If there was a really big wide one that’d be fun as hell on rollerblades though.

Not nearly enough stars. Between this and the 20 kilos of cocaine/heroin post today, there’s been some top notch comments. Well done everyone.

If you’re a male skater in the Olympics and don’t even attempt a quad, you are not winning, no matter how great a skater you might be. Not saying you need to land 15 of them in a routine, and obviously it’s insanely difficult, but such is the nature of this already ridiculous, ridiculous activity already, and he knew…

Get really emotional everyone, about a “sport” that is decided completely by judges, and who have been regularly exposed as being corrupt. Let’s get realistic folks, while it’s neat to look at, it is not possibly worth the thousands of hours that skaters have to go through to get there, only to be famous for six…

Ahh, did not know that. Makes sense. They should totally make a circular track that’s angled a little bit, like a runner’s version of a bicycle velodrome, so you’re sort of always turning, that’d be super neat.

Serious question: are indoor tracks made of a different material or something? I can’t imagine the wind alone on an outdoor track could affect someone’s time by that big a margin (could it? I assume most tracks inside stadiums -even outdoor ones- wouldn’t have a super intense amount of wind most of the time). Also…

Not sure if you think you’re being clever, or playing dumb about being clever, or actually just dumb, but in any of those cases, you are the worst/best/worst again commenter in the history of Kinja.

I second that emotion...I’m Canadian but work mostly in the US, and the for the last 4-5 Olympics I’ve had to suffer through NBC’s coverage, which tends to be 45 mins of actual sports, followed by 4 hours of horrible bullshit, and VERY heavy on “let’s only look at what Americans are doing.” I realize yes, the USA…

Serious question, and I mean no offence to anyone for any reason...but is there a way to customize one’s Deadspin feed to only feature the things one is interested in (or at least, filter out the things one is definitely not interested in)? I put this here because I don’t happen to be wicked into “football” or…

You get a star simply for your name. Plus replicators would be absolutely ace. “Chicago style pizza. (Takes a bite, changes mind) New York style pizza.”

Or at the very least, if you have stackable washer/dryer as many do, put a damn hole in the bottom of the washer, and it just drops the clothes in the dryer when it’s done, which then turns on. Pick your dryer settings when you put the wash in, and bingo-bango.

And maybe if we didn’t have 50 year old men calling balls and strikes with apparently no oversight, the strike zone could be established in the first place...how this isn’t the absolute number one thing on everyone’s list is a mystery to me.

I remember this card so hard. AG is indeed keeping it high and tight.

Couldn’t agree more. I dig watching sports, so if that’s what I’m into that night, I’ll seek out a sports bar cause not only do you have a guarantee the game will be on, usually dedicated sports bars will have a jillion TVs so you’re guaranteed to have a good sightline. BUT if I’m just out for dinner/hanging/drinking…

“Harley made $8.3 million in the fourth quarter of 2017, compared with $47.18 million in the fourth quarter of 2016.”

Gary Cooper was the shit. Watch “High Noon,” my favorite of his, which incidentally also stars Grace Kelly arguably in her absolute prime.

Ditto for Cathy. Cathys are all 53 year old office workers with trolls on their desks and crap. Also as an aside, I know a Gary who’s only like 28, maybe 30 at the most. Although he’s from Scotland so perhaps all bets are off given that Dermot and Fingal are not uncommon names there as well.

In all honesty this would be sort of cool in the NFL...same as if you get injured on a play, you have to sit out the next play...make it the same with penalties. O-line guy false starts? You’re out for a play, dummy. (Same as with the injury thing, you’re allowed to sub in a guy...it would certainly making playing 2nd…

I am totally open to the idea that I know nothing about basketball, as I’m a casual fan at best...yeah it was a nice dunk, but he just ran into the dude, it’s not like he jumped right over his head, or hit him so hard he landed in the stands...Am I missing something? Is that hard to do (I mean beyond how hard it is to…