Jesus christ, the title makes it sound as though the poor guy was submarined into the wall. The video shows some contact for sure, but not any malicious intent. It’s a routine play if not for the fact that a concrete wall is steps from the edge of a professional pitch.

This is bullshit. If this were really true, colleges and universities would be falling all over themselves to add athletic programs for women and men alike (since nothing about this analysis is unique to women or women’s sports). But, in general, they don’t, because it doesn’t make financial sense.

And if anyone in Hollywood comes close to those credentials it’s probably Harvard grad, women’s activist, Oscar winning Natalie Portman. Unfortunately she’s pretty by the standards of the patriarchy so we have to hate her

Let me guess, Lupita Nyong’o should play Jackie O and Beyonce should play Ginsberg.

This is why I can’t stand Jezebel sometimes.

“Sorta makes one yearn for the quiet days when Portman was hanging with her hottie dancer husband and recovering from gestating both her first Oscar and a child, doesn’t it?”

All true, of course. But for small sample sizes, baseball is the same, which is why it was hilarious that people called A-Rod a choker from 2005-2008 in the playoffs. He was INSANE up until Game 4 of the 2004 ALCS (that’s more than four playoff series).

Semantics. Any analogy can be explained away as different. If there weren’t differences, it wouldn’t be analogy. The fact remains that either talking about a subject causes the subject to happen or it doesn’t. It’s a rare black and white issue.

don’t be a dope - drug dealing destroyed the inner city (and now much of suburban sprawl, is associated with violence, robbery and murder. Regardless how you feel about rape, downplaying the menace of drug dealing (which has resulted in prisons and morgues full of young POC) is just fucking stooooopid

Would you be equally outraged if he had rapped about murder, drugs or any number of other crimes that are frequently rapped about? Somehow, I doubt it.

Don’t like it? Don’t buy/listen to it.

What I love about this article:

I read Bill Simmons because he is actually entertaining. I read articles on Deadspin because the commenters are hilarious.

Deadspin is more or less modeled off of Simmons’ work, however he’s been much more successful than any of the writers here.

“We’d inch even closer to a career scenario with CP3 and Blake that becomes a Hottest of Hot Takes cross between ‘The Poor Man’s Stockton and Malone’ and ‘The Sedin Brothers of Basketball.’” What the fuck does that mean?

I mean, I’m not the biggest Simmons fan, but if you’re going to bash other writers please don’t use sentences as shitty as this one:

Funny to see guys who have completely Bogarted his style now criticize him. Comes off as being pretty pathetic.

Obviously writing is subjective (I assume Albert Burneko has a Master’s in journalism or something similar that makes his criticism valid), but it is fun to point out that the first 4 paragraphs of this article get a readability score of 61.8 on the Flesch-Kincaid scale, while the Bill Simmons mailbag article…

I have no idea how he got hired here. He writes food articles and hates football.

Albert Burneko is an angry, small man.