Johnson was the judge that ruled the texts were inadmissible, and oversaw the conviction of Ukwuachu. The court that overturned it is in Denver. I think you need to look a little harder for the smoking gun of bias here.

The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals is based in Denver, and if I know anything about Denver it’s that the people there are nuts about Baylor football.

For the same reason Deadspin is ‘Stick to sports’ing it.

By all measures, Ben is doing quite well for himself. Last month, he put his Soho loft townhouse (formerly owned by Whoopi Goldberg) on the market for $7.4 million.

The irony of a writer telling people to read his site instead of his subpar competitors and using the incorrect word when doing so.

That’s also around the time Lebron came into the league, and I’d venture a guess that that had more to do with NBA popularity than the WNBA (which has been around for more than 20 years).

I had a former coworker who was a born again Christian and would *regularly* tell us that drinking was a sin. I usually responded by telling him that judging was a sin too.

some would say that confiscatory taxation would simply cause billionaires to flee to tax havens, making the global situation worse;

If he’s trying to leave the job to go somewhere else in the same industry, people will talk and his attitude will follow him. So he’s not exactly doing a good job of making himself promotion material or a good outside candidate.

Counter-counterpoint: the Uncle Drew ads are fine. The idea of an Uncle Drew Universe is terrible.

[wonders why Billy has written like 10 different articles about a guy who had a couple good months at Everton and a good game at Milan]

Yeah what a dumbass he is.

But she said “No disrespect” before she told him he had no morals. Why couldn’t he respond to that friendly statement!

5% of Goldman’s market cap is close to $5 billion. I think you’re going to need a lot of protestors.

To summarize Hamilton’s views, if you are successful but do not give all of your money away to charity, you are literally evil, but if you do give it all away but not in exactly the way he wants (a donation to the government? really?) you are also evil.

He guaranteed himself $144 million in the case something went wrong, is being paid at or near the top of the league in AAV for the three free agent years he gave up, and will have just turned 29 when he first hits actual free agency and be in line for at least a $300 million + contract.

I don’t remember Sir Alex ever managing England.

Maybe Italy should rely on second tier (at best) league MLS talent considering the U.S. has advanced further than Italy in each of the last two World Cups.

Yes but their CEO is rich so therefore he is an awful person and everything his company does is bad.

Both teams get one play to score a touchdown from the 5 yard line. If only one scores, game over. Both, you do the same thing from the ten. Neither, same thing from the five again.