The Texan thing is stupid and overblown anyway, since Westlake High School is the richest, bougiest school in one of the bougiest, most liberal cities in the country.

What’s with the guy in the Timberwolves jersey in the background of that gif?

Metta World Beef

He is a man of the people.

I actually like jokes as well as things that are sort of fun.

Please put Beto on this list.

I’m not much of a basketball guy so forgive my ignorance but has the East-West disparity ever been anywhere near this lopsided? Has any two-conference league ever been this lopsided?

The basketball genious

“the Dolphins’ sloppy seconds”

Hey I can understand the need to post pseudonymously after a high profile loss like that but can you at least tell us what position you play?

I’ll shoot my shot one last time: So I agree that the Ravens franchise’s *identity* cannot totally ignore the Browns and the way the Ravens were founded. Anyone writing about the history of the Ravens organization can’t ignore the move from Cleveland, the makeup of the team that moved, and the legacy left behind.

Institutional history is definitely predicated on a continuity of claims, titles, locations, and yes, written records and ownership over those records. There’s nothing unusual about an organization transferring its records and being re-founded in a new location as a totally new organization. No one is going to write…

I mean, history is a matter of written records. If an institution has legally transferred its written records, relocated, and declared itself a new institution, then it’s a new institution with new records and a new history.

Institutional history works however the institutions agree to trace their own histories. In the case of the Ravens and Browns, all institutional players agreed the history would stay in Cleveland, and that the Ravens would, in fact, be regarded as a wholly new institution. The people of Cleveland and Baltimore might…

No, it's called football because, like Association Football, Rugby Football, and Gaelic Football, it's played on foot rather than on horseback. It's not because you kick the ball.

“Indiana was in fact a Union state”

Awfully clever of LeBron and the Lakers to trick the Pelicans into hiring trainers from football teams starting a decade ago. I'm afraid that's still tampering, though.

Frankly...I agree

Boy oh boy is Beto ever not a socialist. He didn’t run as one, no one other than probably some Republicans called him one, and he can’t fairly be characterized as one. He’s a fairly conservative suburban Democrat who lost to the most unpopular Republican in the Senate.

God, please don’t let Beto run. He has nothing to offer other than bland handsomeness and center-right policy positions. He did ~okay~ in his campaign because he was awash with money, up against a singularly unlikeable opponent, and because he was the first Texas Democrat in 20 years to even try to win his statewide…