Obelisks are essentially straightforwardly phallic. ‘I am an important man with a gigantic penis. Look how large an obelisk I can commission and have set upright to reflect that.’

This isn’t related to the substance of the article, but I thought Deadspin was one of the news outlets who had determined to refer to the Washington football team without the slur, except where unavoidable for clarity or in a quotation.

Don't tell Sarah Connor that.

If you're an editor for a writer, you can see the internal monologue of a person a bit, though. And maybe, you're right, if you're a position coach who sees a person perform a certain act repeatedly, you can notice a hesitation in their reaction, or something like that.

I very rarely read Jezebel for this very reason. An article with flippant, news-sounding speculation and commentary with no added journalistic value and a misleading headline that actually makes people less informed than if it didn't exist at all.

When you look at the Seahawks' options on their final offensive play, they didn't need to throw a slant, or do bootleg, or run off tackle. That was obviously an inside job.

"The blue one looks cool," she said of the women. "The other four are similar, long legged, slender, mostly sexualized armor, high heels, lack of pants." She contrasted that to the men. "The male characters get to be short and stocky or heft gorillas or equipped with a massive power suit. You just don't see anything…

I hate this redesign. With the team logos that big on the helmets, how will the NFL fit more than one or two of their corporate partners' logos on there?

I don't think anyone needs to die. If politicians and judges were getting swatted, and having people bust down their doors in pseudo-military equipment based on a phone call, I think you'd see change happen pretty quickly.

Keep in mind that most people don't go from nothing to $850K a few years out of high school. As an NBA player, you're making all of the money you'll ever make but without the years of experience and maturity and likely responsible voices around you helping you budget and invest.

I was convinced they deflated the balls a little bit because it seemed unreasonable to expect someone else to have done it or for Tom Brady not to notice after touching the football 70 times in a game.

These days /r/nba breaks as much news as Deadspin.

I'm now rooting for a Seahawks blowout like last year so that halfway through the third quarter Lynch can grab his nuts to his heart's content.

That's actually not a bad hypothetical: how many months in jail would you agree to serve for a free trip to see your team play in the Super Bowl (or whatever championship)?

The show is addictive. But what I can't stand is that the female characters — all of the female characters — exist exclusively to get fucked, pregnant, or threatened with rape (or actually raped).

Regardless of this latest suspension, Gordon fucked himself over by getting a DWI and multiple positive tests for banned substances, which is why he missed the other 10 games this season.

I've never been able to enjoy a PewdiePie video, but I love Robbaz. And it seems like they occupy the exact same niche online.

My girlfriend at the time was of the same graduating class as the University of Texas/Detroit/Dallas WR Roy Williams.

http://us.battle.net/overwatch/en/h…

I was just reading that bio. Any argument about physical strength is mostly irrelevant because the character is supposed to be 61 and past their prime, hence the armor.

All you need to do is change the he to she & use an older woman with a German accent. Literally everything else…

Reinhardt would have been great piloted by a female character, purely to play against type (similar to how a monk robot does).

Pharah obviously looks awfully close to Samus Aran, though. That's not a bad thing, but it's amazing how few touchstones there are for female body armor that actually covers tits, and isn't…