Were this a legitimate flagrant foul, I would agree. Four is the rule. But this is an awfully spurious flagrant, IMO.

While I appreciate and understand that the suspension is for a series of actions and not jsut this one instance, I really think that this is a different act relative to the pattern of the other three flagrants. The others were clearly flagrant, this one doesn’t seem either intentional, or like he actually make contact…

Whether for men or for women, does anyone else feel like “but I have a great personality!” is such a load of horseshit? Almost anytime I meet someone new, there is a 9/10 chance that I find them likeable and interesting off the bat. Most people have great personalities. And the distribution of good personalities, in…

Not that guy, but I live in Buffalo. Last call is at 4AM. To be clear, that’s last call, not when the bar closes necessarily.

There was a time when I was young enough to know the word faggot was an insult, without knowing what it meant or that it was hurtful. It was the same as dummy or doofus or poop head. I miss those days, not because I have anything against gay people, but because some words are just fun to say. We use words like idiot…

I feel like reading Gawker network articles is slowly making me less progressive.

We trained with a great deal of intensity where I went to HS, but if you puked during a workout you got pulled immediately and you had to do only easy runs for the next three days minimum.

Started watching track during the last Olympics; once you know a few of the names, it’s surprisingly watchable.

You wouldn’t BELIEVE the tax dollars being spent on this.

An overturned appeal is automatically allowed to be appealed, as I understand it. Someone with better information (preferably a link to a direct source for relevant procedure) please step in and correct me.

A case where instead of a $25k fine (which is in the rule book) a guy is being prevented from playing in four games that would have cost him $2.25 million last year and could cost him $250k this year (neither of which are in the rule book) because he was found (maybe) guilty in a proceeding where the judge and jury…

Our little nerd subculture is full of “those guys.” Stand tall and proud, friend.

Lots of people airing out some good explanations below, I’ll add one more semi-non sequitr. In the 4x800, there’s a mass start instead of everyone starting in lanes and then merging. This means that the opening leg is very pushy/shovy and can be very messy. So some teams might put a physically bulky, stronger runner…

I’m not questioning that one of them said “slit eye” but all I heard was “slutty” bunch of times. Can someone give me a time on the video above where I should be looking?

Actually, gays and lesbians are animals. So are straight people. We’re all animals. It’s astounding to me that people forget that, but then I work in the sciences so I’m a bad example.

It depends. I live in Buffalo, NY, and the road that makes up the first two mile of my normal morning loop goes north/south, with my route taking me north. The roads are icy in Buffalo in the winter, and when the sun rises in the east, it hits the west (at that point left) side of the street and melts the ice sooner,…

Wellllll, it’s complicated. More white people are killed by police than black people each year (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…). But white people make up a much larger percentage of the population (http://www.census.gov/prod/2007pubs/…) so this number is deceptive; relative rates matter. That said, black…

Blacktop is objectively softer than concrete. Are you disputing that, or are you disputing that runners should take advantage of that fact to prevent injuries?

I think that’s what a lot of people are finding problematic; it doesn’t appear that there were sidewalks where this woman was arrested.

Re-read the article, look on GoogleMaps where she was arrested. Lots of road with no sidewalk.