The NBA took a much more preemptive stand on anthem protest. Whether that will be harder in practice remains to be seen, but then, I haven’t seen any press on players kneeling or anything else just yet.

Derailing response! Did you ever listen to the record of The Haunted Mansion? Oh man, so many nights ended that way for me.

I had “I wanna Be Like You” memorized by age five. I loved that song so damn much.

Yeah, you’re right. I’m just concocting the absurd line of logic that leads to him both being tested and clean, because he helms my darling NXT. I’ll own it.

Yeah, that was my thought. As COO, he’s an actual, bona fide, non - “independent contractor” of the company, so I could legitimately see where he could be treated differently from Bork Lazer.

How to talk to a McCarthy from Wisconsin:

Do we have Pop on the record about Silver’s preemptive anthem declaration? I’d like that on the record, please.

Separate entirely.

Right. The back step should have given that away. Carry on!

As Chris Webber famously answered the offensive notion of Kahn comparing Milicic’s game to Webber’s...

Wait. Is this the Fawlty Towers walk?

Terrible? According to David Kahn, he was manna from heaven.

Wait! I’ve got just the thing!

Post-investigation, what is going to be the pivot point to which all advocates of “spirited amateur sport” flock? I honestly don’t see a convenient one anymore.

+1 wish for more wishes

Only Aaron Rodgers can do the Hail Mary with any sort of effectiveness.

All positives mentioned here have been retrofitted to appease simmering Minnesotan passive aggression.

Is there something in Safelite’s ads that led you to believe this? I really have only ever heard them on radio (showing age).

If your options are to not suspend Jemele and have the wacko right get apoplectic about “MSESPN,” and to suspend her, but still have the wacko right say that your motives were not genuine in doing so, thus still leaving you under the label of “MSESPN,” why the fuck would you go with the latter?

The first step toward being a better and more balanced human being was recognizing that being told that I benefit from my white (and male) privilege did not mean I needed to do some bullshit like “apologize for being born white.”