I wonder when we’re finally gonna call bullshit on the whole concept of the “independent investigation” in which the organization you’re “independently” investigating is also the one that signs your paycheck. I don’t know how we collectively agreed to pretend that calling it “independent” magically makes that not…

One quibble here - in Canada, we have a very famous incel rampage that was gun based back in 1989. 14 women killed, 14 others wounded in what is called the “Montreal Massacre”. I guess this killer didn’t call himself incel, but his attack was because of anti-feminism. He walked into the class at Ecole Polytechnique,…

After a year or so on HRT, all competitive advantages disappear thanks to the persistent lack of testosterone, and some competitive disadvantages appear like reduced bone density. This is because cis women have SOME testosterone, and trans women will have basically NO testosterone, which makes it even harder to meet…

I’m all for replay reviews coming with a time limit for video examination. If you can’t find a reason to overturn the call after reviewing the tape for a minute, you don’t have enough to overturn the call.

He wasn’t down there very long, but his recording device recorded 17 hours of static.

I really hope that sooner or later VAR gets reigned in. I’ve come to accept that it’s not going anywhere, but it needs to be rapid, both in terms of proximity to the call being reviewed and in terms of how long the review takes. It just completely fucks the flow of the game. Replay saps the rhythm of American football…

It may or may not have been out, but the entirety of the ball has to be over the line and no camera angle was definitive. But regardless, why is VAR even reviewing this? Yes, a goal was scored, but that was missed by the linesman behind midfield and the ball was played by 6 players before the goal. How far back are…

Real Madrid’s season is going tremendously bad, but probably not as bad as Mourinho’s inevitable third year in his second run as manager.

This is what happens when you hold serve in the Alps!

congrats to Splinter for bringing this to light, showing once again that sunlight is the best way to combat Ricketts

First one that came to mind for me as well.  

Jugger! And it’s been adapted into a real sport too, sort of.

Really, do any of these match up to The Game from The Blood of Heroes?

I dunno, I see a guy hitting a shot from the three point line. Big deal.

I used to hang on a history forum many moons ago. One of their tenets was the idea of free speech and the exercise of it; the mods tried to do their best but part of the problem was themselves. That self-selected venn diagram essentially underwrote all the anti-”liberal” spew that all the right-wingers had to dump…

ESPN shut down their comments section last year. Tons of news outlets are going that way because they recognize that they’ve become cesspools. So Barstool is certainly not alone here. I was in journalism when the internet changed everything and comments sections were viewed as the Next Big Thing—a new kind of letter…

If Portnoy’s concerned that there are bigoted freaks who read and comment on his site, then he should know that shuttering the comment section isn’t a real solution to the problem.

Are you...joking?

You are selling this idea very short.

Is this the same Kobe Bryant that raped that woman in Colorado?