you know who I’m talking about! He used to drive that blue car

So the NBA could subsidize the WNBA for the next 4 years simply by voiding Ian Mahinmi’s contract?  It works for me!  

I think you’ve stumbled on the WNBA’s real power: the NBA is on the hook for the WNBA now and can’t be seen as letting it fail (or treating women badly). It is very clearly the “woke” league and has made much of being young, urban, diverse, international, etc. — there is a risk if it is perceived as being dismissive…

We sure there isn’t going to be contraction? A side effect of living in the post-Moneyball era is that there aren’t as many (any?) rich dumb teams to fleece anymore (and more front office talent flocking to the big spenders), meaning the link between money and wins will likely increase.

Yep. Cubs and Red Sox jinx breakers were both nice stories for neutral old geezers like me, and I’m an O’s fan, so it’ll be another 20 years before I have a local interest.

Valley Girl. Valley Girl! VALLEY GIRL!

Can we see Bol Bol in a Tuk Tuk with Boom Boom Mancini? Ideally, I’d like it if they were solving crimes, but I’m okay if it’s just a “people in rickshaws getting coffee” type of show.

My grandparents actually kept a martini shaker in their cars back in the 50s.

Best parenting advice I ever got: you control what’s on the table; they control what’s in their mouth.

Get kids involved in the prep work too. I realized that the game-like aspect of cooking — what can i make out that? what else can i add to this? what 4 things in the pantry go together? — appeals to them as much as me.

I think this is like the shift in baseball — once the mental hurdle of shooting from 4-point land is broken, there’s no reason it can’t be a common occurrence.

The league is in a bit of a no-win situation:

I hope you reminded them how unfair it was that the USA had to play both Trinidad AND Tobago at the same time.

Went to Dartmouth. Looks perfectly normal to me.

At a time when the best player in the world cup is Luka Modric, Americans are still bleating on about “athletes”.

More to the point: the more established the men’s sport, the stronger the resistance to the women’s game.

CTE is a dealbreaker. You’re messing around with lives AND the long-term viability of the league.

My favorite act of boner prevention.  Not Maggie Thatcher naked, but Monsieur Coupet!

It’s a great plot for Bridesdmaids II — 2 bachelorette parties, 1 big donnybrook!

Yep.  2018 rack for a 1998 bike.

Yep.  2018 rack for a 1998 bike.