"Total revenue for the 50 public schools in the Power Five conferences rose by $304 million in 2015, but spending rose by $332 million from the year before, according to a USA Today Sports analysis of financial information that schools annually report to the NCAA. At the 178 public schools in Division I conferences…

THANK YOU.

That's the most depressing thing I've read this week.

I've also lived in Montana and it was pretty much the same deal there, people treating college football like religion. But yeah, I'm sure there is plenty of parts of the country that don't care.

As someone who lives in the south this is uh, incredibly wrong.

I'd vote for doing away with sports altogether if for no other reason than to not have to listen to Baby Boomers whine about "participation trophies" all the goddamn time.

But you don't get judged for having not seen them yet, whereas if I tell them that I don't follow Alabama's football team, there is bewilderment. Sports fans, especially in areas with this toxic American college football culture, are terrible at understanding why other guys would not see the appeal. Add to that cities…

But sports dominates our culture SO thoroughly that there is no avoiding it.

And THIS is why people make unfunny "sportsball" jokes, because so many people into sports find it UNTHINKABLE that other people wouldn't be into it. Whereas if you said the same thing about say, comics, people would find that bizarre.

The "Sportsball" jokes are lame, very true. But at the same time, I get the sentiment. I like sports fine, especially basketball, but unlike other things I like, sports are something that (living in Middle America) men get judged for not being into.

I have read Sean Howe's book and I also loved it. I came away from that book thinking Stan Lee was an asshole and wasn't the main creative force on almost any of his comic runs once they got going, but the book definitely didn't just flat out say "Stan Lee didn't co-create these characters".

That's just your opinion though, most accept that he did co-create these characters, so unless you're actually Steve Ditko (in which case by all means, please weigh in on how much Stan contributed) you're in the minority on this one.

"While Gaiman’s contribution would eventually return to bite McFarlane on the ass". Can someone explain this?

So…these tweets were supposed to be funny?

Well, she also wrote House on Haunted Hill, which is about as classically "Horror" as you can get.

Agreed, I'm really glad that reading a lot of Lovecraft collections eventually led me to Smith.

I still miss Party Down. RIP.

And there's a version of that character (where the talk show persona is a put-on and he's really just a cynical asshole) that McHale would have killed at too.

We both clicked on it, so…

Dear god. An adult SHERLOCK coloring-book is the most disgustingly 2016 thing ever.