OK, fair enough - I linked to Deadspin in the six minute window between your article and the one about the Vikings. But this is part of a general theme of keeping the political stuff confined to the Concourse or wherever. I like some of your stuff, HamNo, but I’ll go there when I’m in that kind of mood.

Why is this shit being cross-posted to Deadspin? It’s Monday morning - could we maybe get something about, I dunno, football?

But that’s my point - they’re NOT talking about that. I didn’t see a single exchange on Sunday where Chris Berman and Randy Moss talked about the wealth gap between black and white Americans. I’ve yet to see Kornheiser and Wilbon talk about whether the increase in murdered cops in 2016 should be laid at the feet of…

Correction noted and appreciated. Thanks for the thoughtful response :)

I see your point, and Samer sort of conflates these two things in his post - the purpose of the protest vs. the manner of the protest. If Samer is saying that Dilfer should shut up because of his thoughts on the purpose of the protest, my original points stand. In fact, I think someone else responded to me below in a…

This, in a nutshell, is the problem with this issue. According to Kaepernick, the purpose of his protest is to “start a conversation,” right? Every article I read about this stresses the importance of an “honest conversation” or an “exchange of ideas,” or an “open dialogue” about race and police brutality. That’s a…

This is SO true. I don’t care about all the dick jokes and callouts and whatnot, but I’ve come to believe he is the greatest interviewer of my lifetime. I can listen to him talk to a celebrity all day.

Did he really, though? It seems to me like all discussion about this has revolved around 3 points. The right, the purpose, and the method of the protest? The right is the least interesting part since no really disputes it, but it’s still the default way the conversation gets started - “Look, the guy has the right to…

“It is unacceptable for a publisher to delete legitimate and true news stories for business reasons.”

Fuck. I read that line three times and still didn’t get the reference until your post. Thanks, man.

Dammit. Take my star and go away.

While watching the Olympics, it occurred to me that instead of playing the national anthem every time on the podium, it would be way more awesome if the individual or team should got to choose whatever song they want (national anthems are boring). Any gold medal winners/songs that you think would be awesome?

NBC’s paid what averages out to $880 Million per games (summer and winter) through 2020. Noone else is even close to that - the European, Canadian and Australian networks are all at around $150 Million per games. So the short answer is, NBC has the right to dictate the scheduling of events - they paid for it.

My assumption was that the eclipse was the death star passing between the planet and the sun.

Thank you for this. For some reason schools in the U.S. just don’t do a good job of explaining the main differences between parliamentary and presidential forms of government and there’s a lot of misunderstanding as to why the U.S will probably always be a two-party system.

The Penn State comparison isn’t really apt. Penn State is a state university and answerable (at least indirectly) to the citizens of the state since they fund it (at least in part). Baylor is a private Baptist school not answerable to anyone other than their own Board of Trustees. They don’t “owe” anyone a report (or…

So you’re not even allowing for the possibility that Theon is going to get some kickass revenge and lop off some of Ramsay’s parts?

It was left vague who his little group was tied to, if anyone, in the first encounter with Daryl. Definitely not a wolf, though (no “w” on the forehead). It’s still, even after last night, a bit ambiguous if they’re tied to Negan and the saviors or just another random group of killers since they haven’t explicitly…

This needs way more stars.

So, I know next to nothing about baseball. But I’m curious - what SHOULD have happened here? Is there an applicable rule? It’s doesn’t seem like the batter - intentionally or unintentionally - should be able to interfere with the catcher throwing the ball back to the pitcher and to make a ball live so this can happen,…