I am not a defender of either Mike, but it seems to me like she understood the question and decided to use his mistake to avoid answering the question.

But why would Windhorst—normally a fair and rigorous reporter—include an anecdote like this without exploring the possibility that it didn’t really happen?

The police should be higher on the jargon list. Sure, there are some cool phrases in there, like Andy Sipowitz referring telling a lower ranking officer to throw a woman beating “john” in the “can” while he looks over his “jacket.”

The “So I wrote a thing: I’m a bad boss” thing is the epitome of Telling On One’s Self. In my experience, any time a boss points to the interview process not thoroughly weeding out bad fits or how the company’s work isn’t for everybody, it is proof positive that the boss is a nightmare.

Forgive this gratuitous appeal to authority to start my post, but.. Joe Banner or Bill Belichick? Come on!

Love that carefully cultivated #brand-building viral content.

The Phoenices rise from the as.... oh brother.

IANAL — could a lawyer explain what exactly is illegal about this? I know sneaker companies or schools paying supposedly amateur players is an NCAA violation, but what federal law does this break?

How would Notaro like Louis CK to face allegations “head on” that may or may not involve him, and that he has already denied? And why should he do that just because “It’s serious to be harassed, it’s serious, it’s serious, it’s serious”?

It actually seems reasonable to me to switch out a young broadcaster in this situation, before he is burnished into America’s sports-media-following conscience as Robert Lee the Commentator Who Got Sent to Virginia in the Middle of a Confederate Rally, which would have 100% happened. Of course ESPN looks a little…

Despite the high quality of its content, Grantland was never more than a black hole for ESPN money. If Simmons expects to employ a lot of people — many of them very good or notable in their own right — he knows The Ringer is going to be a black hole for someone else’s money. That someone else is some combination of…

Thank goodness I can cite how good Doris Burke is at her job when being called sexist for thinking Jessica Mendoza is awful.

All team doctors should be hired by, paid for by, and answerable to a committee 1/2 NFLPA appointed, 1/2rd NFL/team appointed. Those team doctors should have full autonomy in hiring their own trainers and medical staffs. Teams should be assessed 1/32nd of the cost of the whole program. Done.

There are a lot of dumb Silicon Valley ideas like the Juicero, but this one seems pretty decent. I’d love it if my employer filled my gas tank while I was at my desk and I’d probably sign up myself and willingly pay a nominal amount more per gallon to have someone drop into my driveway and top off the tank while I…

The investigation has concluded that a miscommunication led to Iverson thinking the scheduled team event was just practice, not a game. Not a game. Practice, man.

Wow. I thought five Super Bowls was impressive, but that pales in comparison to Tom Brady scoring in the 99th percentile of a proprietary phone game played by few people that he practices several times per day. Impressive.

The approximate cost of the damage is $200,000, or the labor cost of fifteen minutes of having someone pick up the shit that fell on the floor and stand the pillars back up (approx $5). Whatever’s cheaper.

Still no excuse for pissing in that kid’s shoes.

The last paragraph presents a pretty cut and dried case that Stoops has to pay Penn State back for leaving in a lateral move. Hard to see his detail-barren countersuit as anything more than a negotiating tactic to try to reduce that number a bit.

Need someone to reconcile the ethics of dog racing vs. horse racing vs. dog doping vs. horse doping for me one time.