Yeah, the ex-CEO has been there for 27 years and probably stayed to help with the acquisition transition.  I’d be very wary to see what AT&T/Time Warner does with HBO’s properties.  GoT is too big to be messed with, but I’m hoping they don’t try to muzzle John Oliver.

Yeah, I think Simmons is very good if he just stays in his lane, which is limiting himself to activities that you said. His writing is not great, but I think he’s got a good observational eye for sports, but anything too analytical he drops into Rounders analogy mode.

I hope he’s learned from his time on TV that it’s…

From the top image, Zoe Ball looks a lot like Sweet Dee; would’ve loved to have seen her inject some wild card-ness into the show.

+Won-der Mike

Plus, changes may be happening at HBO (who has Simmons on contract and is also an investor of The Ringer). The HBO CEO just left, and more changes may be coming from AT&T/WarnerMedia.

Alternatively: So you want a tea par-tay?

Up until now, all anybody’s been willing to run with is offhand innuendo—implying, say, that everybody on the Celtics resents Brad Stevens for continuing to give minutes and schematic favor to Gordon Hayward’s husk, or that Kyrie and Jayson Tatum have formed an exclusive Kobe Brain Club in the locker room and won’t…

Clowns are pretty cool. My French lessons were sponsored by those nefarious education propagandists at the Annenberg Foundation (/s), starring a heroine who did porn at one point.

Here it is:

I practically know French now.

If you like mayo, go with God. I won’t try to dissuade you from it. You’re actually lucky in that your epicurean existence is not littered with vile, soggy booby traps. All I ask is that you mayo bullies respect my distaste for that shit, and that you recognize the extent of that distaste.

Dwayne Casey and Darryl Morey won the Coach and the Executive of the Year awards last year, but Quin Snyder and Dennis Lindsey really should’ve won.

Lindsey has a knack for grabbing useful, though limited role players off the FA heap. Snyder’s motion/ball-moving system then creates advantages for these guys to produce…

These tumblers are priced around $30 USD, and there’s such high demand for them that the Chinese are getting into fights just to get their hands on one.

No-Shit Quarterly sounds like an astroturf publication by Metamucil.

Chris, between the Kraft blowjob boondoggle and Josh Jackson giving a metaphorical finger to Foenix fans at Fry’s Food, you’ve done some wonderful strip mall journalism this past week. 

I’m all for limiting food waste, but isn’t the simple lesson, “don’t take more than you need?”

There’s also the larger question of how supermarkets and farms process their food waste all every stage, from unsold food at stores, food damaged during transport, or farms tossing out “ugly” produce. NPR did a report on this…

To be clear, it wasn’t an illegal play, and no foul was assessed, even though Brogdon did appear to lean slightly forward into Bagley.

Brandon, just make it to April and you can hit up all the food in Flushing, Corona, and Jackson Heights.  People keep talking about Joe’s Shanghai, but Nanxiang and White Bear are better.

I think you’ve got it about right. But that’s just coasting on lowered expectations.

The thing that annoys me most about Ainge is how quickly he leaks to the media after refusing to do anything when a superstar becomes available—Paul George, Kawhi—and claims that Boston tried, only to be foiled by the other team’s…

I think the burgers—particularly the Shack Stack—is pretty good, but it’s not worth $11, even before you factor in the travel and hype-wait.