Nadia Comeneci, Sonja Henie, Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Abby Wambach (whose international goal record may well stand for all time). Possibly Katie Ledecky if she keeps it up.

I hate the new NCAA tournament format, but if it means Georgia Tech goes in on the basis of beating ranked teams (and only ranked teams), I might learn to love it.

I think it’s more “the labor of players is worth millions” than it is “they aren’t able to be paid for it”. Big-time sports are a huge driver for campus and town prosperity, so you have a whole community that’s committed to, at the very least, doing well enough to keep the team in the national spotlight. Whether or…

To add to Zach Miller’s explanation, what we have with dinosaurs and such is very much a “black swan” scenario - not in the Nassim Taleb sense of deeply improbable events, but just in the case of limitations of inductive reasoning. If a European scientist found only the bones of an Australian swan without seeing a…

If Margaret Cho is Representative Asian #4, it’s because she made herself that. If someone wants to lead a hashtag campaign about something, and they are surprised when people actually contact them because they want to know more and figure out how to do the right thing, that person is an idiot. If they are…

Wait, how is this gem of a shoegaze cover not on your list?

It depends on the stage in the relationship and also on the guy, obviously. I don’t know anything about your boyfriend, but boyfriend gifts should fall into one of four categories, mostly but not entirely depending on your relationship status:

It must be nice being a sports “journalist” who gets to dream up excuses to repeated re-watch footage of a mildly funny that happened four years ago instead of having to spend their at work actually working.

1. It’s spelt “dike”. Jesus Christ, Magary, didn’t you go to college?

Wait. Kevin fuckin’ Draper is accusing someone else of not knowing what they’re talking about?

Man, fuck you. The media is as much to blame for this as anyone.

Wearability of chip gear expires after the start of the next season, but after 5-10 years it renews its validity during and immediately after future championships. The interim period is there because you don’t want to look like you can’t afford new clothes, but eventually it provides you with credibility as one of the…

I talked to some British fans of American football last time I was in London. They were the exact mirror image of U.S. fans of European soccer leagues.

George Wallace, 1968, got 13.5% of the popular vote and 46 votes in the electoral college.

I’m calling it right now, Embiid never wins a championship with the Sixers. He either flames out of the league, gets traded to a better team, or walks.

I think most patellar tears injuries are like that, due to bodyweight shifting in the wrong direction while the feet are planted. Contact is probably actually safer in this respect because the hit stops you from planting and redirects your momentum. You can still get injured in the landing, but it’s less likely to be…

Rich guys go to Yale. Smart guys go to MIT.

If someone did something that bad, the fans should vote with their wallets and the teams can release the offenders.

Easy gerrymandering solution: you can only vote once, but you can choose to cast that vote in any district less than 300 yards from your home. Not everyone will do it, but an organized get out the vote operation could nullify the effect of oddly shaped borders. That will push boundaries to be more convex.

Proportional representation is great and all until you realize it means you have to vote for a party and can’t vote for a particular candidate. If the Democrats win 51 seats, guess who chooses how those seats are filled? Not the voters, the party committee.