I think this was the woman who was interviewed by This American Life in their last episode. Don’t dismiss her, she had a lot of very smart things to say and everything she said about how congress works is absolutely correct.

The Preakness is like this if the dress code was wife beaters, cargo shorts, and high school equivalency diplomas.

Do they not pay taxes on their income? Do they not register their vehicles? If so, they are paying taxes.

Desperately making jokes for no compensation other than a brief ego boost, hmm, I don’t know if the Deadspin commentariat is going to relate.

Good thing there was that coaches film. It was almost the Burfict crime

This might not be a big deal, but your take is objectively wrong.

But it literally happened. She could have shaken his hand, she could have just touched a shoulder, but she embraced him. Trying to read into the quality of the embrace or what expressions on her face indicate whatever feelings she had is, to me, pointless.

I don’t know, some of those medications seem to be directly related to conditions they get BECAUSE they’re athletes, not inspite of.

Univision is Congress?

Just say fuck the lemons and bail

Wow, that’s fucked up. He made a mistake, sure, but he doesn’t deserve to have his basketballs ruined.

The No. 2 won the Money In The Bank ladder match. Therefore guaranteeing himself a shot against No. 1 whenever he wants. Pretty common knowledge, if you ask me.

Is this what they mean when they say that on field chemistry is so important in the NFL?

Nope, no way to make birds racist.

It doesn’t make sense that they wouldn’t have a 2nd person look at that play before moving on. I can’t believe they didn’t double Czech.

If the Earth were round, Giancarlo Stanton’s dingers would go straight into outer space. Think about it, you guys.

WE ARE!

Girls who take 100 pictures before they choose the right one that doesn’t make them look fat. Guys who post pictures standing next to someone else’s Ferrari or wearing all sorts of fake premium label clothes.

Not to mention “next time,” literally means the next time - and not every time thereafter. That one little list is easily the weakest part of the article because it undermines some very salient points about language with what is actually harmless jargon. The paradigm shift bit though is pretentious as all get out, but…

His job is to report on sports business for ESPN. You figure that job required him to spend Super Bowl Sunday—the biggest day in all of sports business!—frantically building his own popularity on a whole other company’s publishing platform?