When the dissenting view is your LEAD investigator, aka the person in charge of the investigation, and that person is then prevented from even speaking to the guy who decides on the suspension.... that’s a fucking broken process. This isn’t a “ten people in a room, and one or two disagreed with the majority” situation.

Am I reading this right, insofar as they are so eager to be seen to be doing the right/proactive thing on domestic violence that they are overruling their own investigators, even when they recommend no action?

I dated a gal when I was in high school that did dressage. There’s a LOT of skill and timing for that. The horse provides only part of the performance. The rider uses foot, calf, thigh, butt, back, and core muscles to send non-verbal signals to the horse on cadence and moves to execute. It actually is a physically…

equestrian expertise is not only physically demanding - for both horse and rider, and takes years of training - for both horse and rider, but it’s a tradition that goes back thousands of years

Trumpka on declining union membership:

Trying to make globalism the enemy is about the dumbest thing he can suggest. Yes globalism has shifted some industries out of the US, but it also has helped to make us one of the wealthiest nations in the world. Even our poor people are head and shoulders above poor people virtually anywhere else when you consider…

You mean something that requires actual physical training? Imagine that.

yeah but at least any person should be able to acknowledge the mastery required to get a horse and rider to do that.

Have you ridden horses? That’s a fucking workout!

Yeah, I agree. A worldwide gaming-only Olympics every four years would be super neat.

Maybe I’m hopelessly out of touch (and I have no illusions about the sanctity of the Olympics) but I still don’t buy e-sports as equivalent to physical sports — and thinking about an official having to straight-facedly give “anomaly” a gold medal in FIFA ‘XX makes me cringe.

What is unethical about giving a larger star with multiple grand slams, and former open winner the main stage?

How is it cheating when it wasn’t against the rules? You sure as shit aren’t getting mad at players for using protein powder they don’t need for medical purposes, but using meldonium when it was legal wasn’t kosher?

Yeah, what a shock that her competitors would rather not compete against her.

I do not understand the excessive anti-Sharapova mutterings being heard from various players. She’s a five time slam winner, more than anyone else in the Open except Venus. If anyone has earned the right to center court, its her.

I’m team Sharapova just because she’s pissing off the same pearl-clutchers that wail about purity in sport yet spill zero ink regarding all the ways this country club sport discriminates and nit-picks about stupid, inconsequential shit.

5 time grand slam champion > 5 in the world with no grand slams.

Sharapova has not been found to have been using a substance which was banned at the time of any of her Grand Slam wins.

She’s not wrong. As a career Grand Slam champion, I think the world was waiting on pins and needles to hear what Caroline Wozniacki thinks about Open scheduling.

She’s the biggest draw outside of Serena (who also isn’t there). Of course she’s going to get center court. Woz is just mad people don’t like her as much as Sharapova. Oh well. That’s life.