I think missing from this is that no team wants a player to drop 70 on them, and Booker put together a great scoring effort (21-40, 4-11 from 3, and 24-26 FT) on what is essentially an NCAA team against a team that might still nab the top seed in the East.

How do you figure?
You mean it didn’t establish a settlement? Many colonies aren’t settled.

Isn’t much of the ‘bad blood’ more to do with the background condition of the US is the colonizer and so a victory for Puerto Rico would be a big fucking deal for them?
Maybe that’s why it was important to the players and to the Puerto Ricans, and why any excitement on the part of PR is less braggadocio and more…

I’m bummed this escalated. Wanted to hear Jalen Rose say: “Hold me back!”

There’s nothing admirable in most aspects of being a fan.
Just letting people enjoy basketball in their own way is probably the admirable route here.

Heck to all the people saying this is just a proxy for education! That’s about as smug as treating atheism as a causal variable!

Which is also a proxy for class

What’s more terrifying is watching the beast shuffle at you with a kind of 1,2 step.

Can you do a follow up to this comment after you finish econ 201?

When he starts a band.

I really am loving this run of tennis articles.

Found the white feminist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whiskey_Tango_Foxtrot_(film)

Taking Warren as a model for progressive democrat overlooks the baggage she herself brings.
Democrats won’t run a professor from New England, they will/should run somebody who likes unions and hunting and is from a swing state.

I feel like the stand + wipe crowd is getting a lot of flak here, but it should be clarified that the stand is really more of a squat. It maximizes maneuverability!

Once dry philology stops raking in the fresh faced undergrads by the thousands THEN you can complain about stifling and outdated norms.

UW? UW!

This is my favorite part of these articles:
I’m Patrick Wyman, and I just finished my PhD on the end of the Roman Empire. It seems pretty silly to me that professional historians don’t actually talk to the general public—why would you spend decades working on something if you don’t want to tell people about it?—so…

FWIW, he’s only 14-12 when the game is decided by fewer than 7 points in the regular and post season (and clock management becomes more important). And his three playoff losses all were pretty close games going to the end.