I heard a new Weezer song the other day, and it’s about girls. Rivers, you’re 40. Stop.

So is he sorry for being an apologist for racially-motivated serial-rape in his heart, or for saying it out loud on the internet? This smells like a pretty tone-deaf “I’m sorry if I offended anybody” non-apology.

It might have protected him more and offered him more victims.

“The question, of course, is why Arnold felt Holtzclaw deserved a more rounded portrait in the first place.”

Doesn’t this article make the case for how sick football culture is? The fact that they even tried this redemption narrative, or like...sympathizing narrative, or whatever the fuck this trash was, goes to show how much behavior is excused as long as you are good at sports. And if you are mediocre at sports and don’t…

Only digging the hole four feet deep is a grave mistake. Heffe, you done fucked up royal. Like, Lorde-cuts-a-track-about-you fucked up.

Kara alludes to this above but it just defies belief that the genesis of his belief that women exist for the pleasure of men didn’t start as a college football player. I don’t think we need to recount the volume of sexual violence towards women in the college football ranks, especially.

Your guy Barry over at Deadspin said (paraphrasing) “he needed a good editor to save him from himself”.

“well-rounded portraits”to monsters like Holtzclaw.

The question, of course, is why Arnold felt Holtzclaw deserved a more rounded portrait in the first place.

I made a grave mistake.

Like if they’re white.

Sympathy for the serial rapist is the most daft peg to hang your article from. Jeff Arnold sounds like he wanted to ‘transcend’ sports writing and do something long-form and seized on Holtzclaw’s failed attempts at professional football as his entry point. Instead of possibly exploring how jock culture and sexual…

The man abused women he knew were vulnerable and wouldn't be able to say no. He is a predator. I don't think not going pro would have stopped him. It might have protected him more and offered him more victims. Failing football didn't turn him into a predator.

“I and my editor” He fucking wrote “I and my editor”. A person who makes his living writing wrote that.

I went to high school with a guy who was into soccer. Put a lot of time and effort into it. Wasn’t exceptional enough to play in any professional capacity, but we’ll qualify him with Jeff Arnold’s “pretty good.”

I’ll never understand the reasoning behind people trying to give “well-rounded portraits”to monsters like Holtzclaw.

“I hoped to explore the question of what had happened to this once-promising young man.”

I hoped to present a more fully-rounded portrait of Mr. Holtzclaw than had appeared in the press.

“In writing this piece – which was reviewed and signed off on by at least four editors prior to its publication —”