Oh, yeah - crazy backstories are a Star Wars staple. I’m about halfway through From A Certain Point of View, which is 40 short stories about background characters in A New Hope, and it’s pretty good.

Apparently, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.

Just want to say thank you for all your work, especially your incredible investigative pieces year after year. Deadspin is a great place for dick jokes and making fun of Austin Rivers, but for me, no author’s byline here commands as much attention as yours.

Please have him email me and tell me what the alloys are before I perish.

This made me laugh so hard. Thank you

I was wondering if it was the same guy. Turns out, Stampede Wrestling was mad at Hayter and named a referee after him to get back at him:

It sounds like your wife and I would be great friends.

Larry,

At this point it just seems really cruel the hockey HOF is located in Toronto.

After 50 years I am surprised the Leafs still know how to hoist a cup

Melgalvis always had a reputation for being intense, but now he’s just fucking metal.

So did Mr. Zaun.

Sam Allardyce and Tony Pulis can only work one job at a time, after all.

It’s pronounced Zaun Cherry.

That’s not Don Cherry Lite, that’s Don Cherry Coke.

More of column A than column B, methinks. But it’s not as if West Ham is loaded with top notch talent at the moment. It’s all been downhill since the Payet debacle.

Too bad for the letdown next year, as it’ll be Moxy Fruvous doing a medley of their greatest hits.

Still not the most Canadian performance ever:

Split the difference, adopt the Penix as a mascot: