I guess given speed climbing is a relatively new discipline they’ll just have to live with being shut out, it just seems like a strange way to introduce these sports to the Olympics. The purpose is to see the best athletes in their narrow discipline compete against each other, though I concede that a number of other…

I’ve now read the format and it does sound cool, they frame it like a climbing triathalon. Sounds like fun for the viewer, but I can’t help but think the competitors would object to being asked to reach outside their discipline. Or they’re just happy to be at the Olympics at all.

How the hell are they planning to combine climbing disciplines for a medal?? The superficial resemblance line needs more prominence here, these are entirely different sports. This is like asking pro dunkers and NBA players to compete for the same medal, there’s a bit of skill overlap because they both have to get the…

They weathered an electric start from Corbin, who struck out 10 batters in the first three innings

Plays the game the right way y’know, not like these yahoos out here grandstanding with their dabs and their flosses or whatever the kids are up to these days. Corporal punishment and prayer back in school, that’s what I say. What were we talking about again?

“What professional athlete could you outrun? It’s a one-mile race and first one to the finish wins. As an average guy I think I could beat a power lifter or maybe even a catcher. Thoughts?”

There’s a wide range of sauces you could be referring to as “Chinese barbecue sauce”, I’m envisioning the dressing on char siu (chinese roasted pork, often found in steamed or baked buns, and is deep red color). I highly recommend this recipe (https://thewoksoflife.com/chinese-bbq-pork-cha-siu/) and literally…

En route to visit Tulane my senior year of high school a medical emergency on the flight caused an unscheduled landing in Little Rock, serious enough that they let the guy lay in the aisle while the plane touched down. What was supposed to be a 30 min stop to refuel became a 10 hour delay in which we reboarded and…

What level of usage has your Switch gotten on average since you bought it? I see lots of stories like this, and about the myriad issues people have had with the joycons. I’ve had the same Switch since Sept. 2017, and I’ve had none of these issues, the battery is still reasonable (though it was never a workhorse),…

That so many NFL teams have managed to consistently perpetrate a unique-enough brand of incompetence to warrant the creation of verbs that we all understand is a source of delight for me.

I think you mean a 3rd and conditional 4th the way recent Patriot trades have been going.

One would think, but he actually did play D&M on their Showtime show and all three looked capital W Washed.

The brand is out here deadlifting cars, BX all day

Ya thanks for coming in to state the obvious, is it not clear we’re having a bit of fun taking an objectively ridiculous thing seriously? Giri wrote an article about some Twitter clips of a presidential candidate trash talking the president about pickup basketball. 

I have actually played basketball with Andrew Yang. Prior to his run he served as head of the fellowship he founded, my class was his last as an active participant, and during our summer training camp we coaxed him out onto the court (with significantly more reluctance than we are seeing now that he can score literal…

Anytime football fandom comes up in conversation, I throw people a bone by denigrating Tom Brady’s “water is sunscreen and I’m immortal because I harvest the youthful blood of my children for my morning shakes” shtick, or play it off with a couple quick hits on the NFL as a whole (labor exploitation, covering up…

Despite the recent managerial changes here, I remain high on Deadspin’s ability to maintain journalistic integrity without going up in a cloud of smoke.

As an entirely unqualified layman, I have a hard time understanding what sorts of insights the study described can yield (the one about applying exactly the same stimuli and asking for ratings on a scale, not the one about women’s pain not being taken seriously in medicine, that’s a massive and real problem).…

That would be Jim Spanfeller, the ex-Forbes asshole who forced Megan Greenwell out and the entire Deadspin staff spent last week ethering. He’s big on upping (doubling, quadrupling, or whatever target he woke up feeling) pageviews, even though Deadspin demonstrated to him that time spent on page is a far better…

Heartwarming and funny in equal measure, really sad to see Megan go, all the best to her in what I hope is a fruitful career at Wired.