Say what you will, but I say kudos to the team’s sturgeon for getting Stanton ready to start the season so soon after that injury.

He’s rolled his sleeves back here to placate everyone who thought the OUTSIDE of that shirt was the ugliest thing they’ve ever seen.

Interesting that two guys would be killed at the same time—indicates either an equipment malfunction for both of them, or they planned the route wrong and basically flew into a rock wall?

When I was making my way through grad school (English lit, natch), I was friends with a bunch of poetry MFA students, and heard a TON of horrible stories about her. A TON. So trust me, you are hardly alone.

Seriously, who believes that the NFL will lose ANY ratings due to shenanigans like the ones the Patriots pulled? C’mon, now.

I hate the whole “[celebrity] gets paid so much more than [non-celebrity profession], they should be happy” argument. Of course the people saying that would lose their shit if you pointed out how much more they make than some guy spending 18 hours/day in a sweatshop in Bangladesh, and so they should stop asking their…

I’m trying—and failing—to think of a movie in the past five years that I’ve really wanted to see primarily because of the trailer that did not let me down. Glad to hear this one might break the streak.

Did police pull over the wrong car? Yes
Will they admit it? No
Will they claim they intended to pull over the incorrect car for reasons that were not captured on film? Do you really need to ask that question?

I think in the world that most of us inhabit, having your contract not renewed is the same thing as being fired. But in the world of Bill Simmons, where both sides are negotiating on a hefty 7 figure salary plus god knows what other perks, I think contract non-renewals aren’t quite the same. It’s more a recognition…

My guess is he either goes fully independent, or signs with an out-of-left field company that wants to establish a new presence in live sports programming in order to bring eyeballs to some other product it wants to launch, something like Netflix or Apple.

Honest question here since I haven’t read the report: does it say that Brady conspired to deflate the balls below the allowable threshold? Or did he simply make it known that he liked balls to be less deflated rather than more deflated, and the equipment guys took it upon themselves to do it?

The pit stains add to his “everyman” persona.

Oct. 18 (Pats @ Colts) should be completely insufferable in terms of pre-game coverage of this.

Where does it say “Brady told us to deflate them under the NFL’s limit?” Brady’s defense would simply be, “yeah, I like the balls to be less deflated than 16 psi.” The only thing I would say would be proof is something where Brady tells them that he considers the 12.5 or whatever the lowest allowable limit is to be…

59.4% of stats are made up on the spot.

Could be an homage to Grit King Kurt Gibson upon the news that he is suffering from Parkinson’s Disease.

“It’s not so much the murder that we have a problem with, it’s the decision making. If he’s going to kill someone right before the draft, when he knows we’re all watching him, what does that say about him? How do I know he won’t kill someone on game day, or the morning of a walk through?” —NFL GM

Biggest red flag for me is you get multiple answers to the question about why the job is open.

Yeah, in our case it is to provide proof that we considered each applicant and just didn’t give it to someone’s niece or whatever. The notes don’t have to be extensive...my notes frequently just have things like “quick thinking, good answers” or “doesn’t seem to have read job description,” etc. Basically enough info…

I have to say, in response to this, that I work at a large public university, and have been on a few search teams, and our HR dept requires that we keep notes so that we can justify the decisions we make (who to bring in for a first interview, who to give the job to, etc.). So while this could give off red flags, in…