The rise of professional video gamers and the coverage of it (live on TNT, some e-league thing) makes me feel really old. Why would anybody watch somebody play Street Fighter etc.? I do not get it one bit.

SVP is the anti-Berman. ESPN lucked the fuck out the day they hired him. Not saying he was always great - it took him some time to grow into what he is now - but damn if he isn’t the best part of the network for the past several years.

I’ve been laid off before. The sympathy meant a lot, even if it didn’t mean another job.

This dude shot them out of a series when he had Kevin Freakin Durant. I am through with the apologists.

People criticized Scotty Brooks’ system too. I tend to believe that Russ IS the system, and thus the problem. He plays this way because he wants to. That’s why it kills me when people say, ‘If he had better teammates...” He had the second best player on the planet and barely wanted to give him the ball. He doesn’t…

“maybe you think the Thunder could have actually won more games and been more prepared to meet the Rockets in the playoffs if Westbrook had spent less time gathering triple-doubles and more time enabling Andre Roberson, Steven Adams, Victor Oladipo, and Enes Kanter. Maybe you should think a little harder about that.”

I don’t know who to fault, but I do consider that the Thunder would’ve been better off spending more of the regular season figuring out whether these other guys could do things, given the opportunity and the reps. Does anyone really think they spent this season making a priority of figuring out the best use of Steven…

It would be a total misread, though, to see Westbrook’s fourth-quarter bricklaying as the result of some egotistical spasming. Westbrook was only doing what he’d been doing all throughout the regular season, in which he became the best clutch player in the league and singlehandedly won almost too many games to…

Why employ a quality sports anchor/reporter/journalist when you can provide a platform for people who just scream stupid shit at each other every day?

Dear Portland-

• The Daily Beast identified New Hampshire state representative Robert Fisher (R) as the likely individual behind Reddit’s “Red Pill” forum, a breeding ground for misogynists. Among other musings, Fisher wrote: “I’m going to say it—Rape isn’t an absolute bad, because the rapist I think probably likes it a lot.”

This tournament is a promotion to make money, not have high school discussions about fairness. The first one she’s eligible to play in will play her, for the notoriety, the draw, any number of reasons. If Radwanska was a tournament director she would be fired.

Yes. This is the good stuff. More of this.

Synthetic stuff like that, especially the unknown quality and ingredients of it one might get in prison instead of at a corner store, is well-known for potentially causing psychosis-related problems. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if that led to a suicidal mindset among someone close to that already, in a way real…

The juicer reminds me of what the internet will look like after the Right gets a hold of it.

I feel bad for this kid! His petty crime made international news because of a name he probably already gets loads of shit for.

So SAS can’t believe someone has the high profile and well paying job he does, despite the fact he clearly sucks at it and seems to be almost universally despised.

Ugh “go to Human Resources” aka the people who are designed to protect the company, not you.

If only it were 2006, someone would’ve called a foul on Dirk Nowitzki for him.