Funny, it’s almost as if you did not take into account the “right now” part of my statement in your rush to be a twatwaffle about how much basketball I watch. Right now, after beating Golden State and having the better record the Celtics are the better team. This has nothing to do with last year’s playoffs, it has…

Yes, they play later. I meant the only matchup that they have had — as in, they have played once, the Celtics won, and they have a better record.

Yeah, congratulations for “finding” someone who wasn’t hiding. Yes, I am a Celtics fan. Yes, the Celtics just beat Golden State and have the best record in the league. And fine, teams aren’t playing defense. But your argument that the Celtics won’t still be one of the better defensive teams in the league is belied by…

This “Jerry Jones is the most powerful owner” shit only holds as long as other owners are granting him that status. It doesn’t take a majority of owners to change that calculation. It takes about five other owners with comparable resources and comparable sway. As soon as Jerry is more of a burden than a plus, there…

Look, I don’t know if the C’s can beat the Warriors in June in a 7-game series. But what do we mean by “better”? In a sport assessed by wins and losses the Celtics have the best record. They just beat the Warriors in their only matchup of the season. This ain’t fucking figure skating. There are no style points. By…

So as an Africanist I say: Shame on you!

You had “Pooperior” sitting RIGHT THERE and you went with “SUPOOPIOR”?

Given that a million people here have made the NIT joke, and that we are about to enter college football bowl season (complete with determining which 5-win, sub-.500 teams get to qualify based on graduation rates) I think making fun of this as either a soccer thing or a European thing is absurd. 

“If you were, for some reason, left hungering for more” — I see what you did there.

But he’s not wrong.

Fun Fact: Traffic circles/rotaries are called “roundabouts” in much of the rest of the world.

Yeah, you are literally wrong about the Pats being caught red-handed in Deflategate. Plus: There wasn’t a fight? Yes, Kraft didn’t take it to the mattresses, but it went precisely as far in the courts as Zeke’s case has. And lots of owners know the tricks of the trade. Jerry isn’t somehow magical — he knows no more…

Yeah, CONCACAF qualifying, UEFA qualifying — totally the same thing.

Just another reminder that being a bully is only effective if you can beat up the guys you are trying to intimidate. These are all rich and powerful men, some of them richer and, in the world outside of the NFL in particular, every bit as or more powerful than Jones. He might be able to blowhard his way past Arlington…

I think strength of schedule can be overrated because one cannot really dictate the strength of the mandatory conference teams you play, and teams schedule non-conference games so far in advance that what they are when you play them may bear no resemblance to what they are when you scheduled them (Did Wisconsin…

That Instagram photo with the baby’s hand is a real kick in the heart.

And would undoubtedly gang-fuck you in a fight or any sporting activity ...

No worries. We’re on the same page. Universities are complex eco-systems and probably could not be any other way. In a lot of ways it is too bad that we can’t say to athletics “You have too much; give some back,” but that would open more doors for abuse than it would close, and one guesses that the athletic side would…

No, he was fully aware. His point wasn’t that it is his money to do with what he wants. It came up ina relatively high-level meeting where someone talked about how our football team and our medical schools get either little or no funding from the state and so “really, we ought to chip UT off of the signs.” And that’s…

I’m unclear why you think you’re disagreeing with me. I literally wrote the following; “it not being fungible does mean that it can’t simply be used, say, to pay professors’ salaries.” In other words the money is NOT fiungible and thus CANNOT be used for faculty salaries. Is the internet such a world of instant…