Free round-trip ticket and a month off from work. Except that you have to write a single article for deadspin/concourse/jezebel etc. while you are there. Where do you go? what’s the article about?

You mean Enes Kanter, known anti-totalitarian and one of the few famous Turkish people abroad who has a platform and is using it to stand up to Erdogan? Ya, this guy is a real piece of trash.

This article reads like some blood-thirsty, toxic masculinity, Hammurabi’s Code type of craziness. There is a huge difference between setting a hard screen and throwing a temper tantrum and charging at a guy. Maybe we should be modeling ways of solving problems without violence, instead of justifying and glorifying…

Hey, just a few major grammar issues — paragraph 4 sentence “and it changed the changed the course of many lives,” and “Barron remembers how rare for women to get scholarships to play basketball at colleges and universities at the time” needs a “was” somewhere. Not trying to hate, just to help.

If you want to read more about this race, this article by Leslie Jamison is amazing: