If The Athletic wants a less-obvious way to prevent people from commenting they should just switch to Kinja.

One thing I hate about writers is when they write something that causes a swift and broad backlash, and their defense is “You misunderstood what I meant,” as if that is a valid defense for a person whose job it is to convey ideas to third-parties via the written word. I write for a living, and if someone who is…

People who use ellipsis like they’re just handed out for free by their investment bankers are gentrifiers.

Because a lot of the people who provide us this entertainment do not have the ability to escape society’s problems. They also have a very limited window in their lives to take advantage of their platform.

To your point, politics is also pretty annoying when you’re structurally discriminated against as black, latinx,…

Some of the most important sports stories ever are important because of their intersection with politics. How do you tell a politics-free version of the story of Jackie Robinson, or the Munich Olympics?

Not everything does. But sometimes sports and politics (broadly defined) are going to intersect, and locking up when that happens like one of those fainting goats when it is frightened is worthy of derision. 

This article could have been titled:

I’ve read this twice and I’m still not entirely sure what the point of this rant is. That people prefer comfort food over new stuff? Well, sure. That’s been the case since TV began. (And I’ll always have a Law & Order on when I’m doing chores.) Netflix wants people to stay home and watch Netflix? Well, duh. It’s hard…

For a normal hire, it’s probably not desirable to do that sort of digging. For someone who is going to be your social media presence, I think knowing what their public social media looks like is pretty highly relevant.

Whatever you think of his take, you have to acknowledge that Bill Simmons’s history definitely gives him a position to criticize a person for trying to lure talent away from another organization to join his own.

They will get 0% of the zero top flight free agents they already weren’t getting. How will they recover?

Vol. 3 went triple platinum in 99. Hov’s career needed revitalizing 2 years later?

LOL -- How does a quarterback take a play off?

Having the show end with Frank shooting up a bunch of people and cutting to “In Loving Memory of Stan Lee” was not a good idea.

Shut the fuck up.

Really good college sports fans can be a fucking delight—you have to be some combination of funny, smart or original.  She’s just a nuisance that’s none of those things.

I say this every time Marvin Lewis makes the news, but it’s important now that it’s eulogy time.

I feel some sympathy, mostly because he was DC on the greatest defense in league history and a big part of the Ravens first Super Bowl victory.  But I think he gets unfairly shit on by a lot of people because he was around long enough for a whole generation to forget the Bungles label and how absurdly bad the team was…

I quite enjoyed that soundtrack. 

It says something when famously rookie-averse Rick Carlisle is basically giving the keys to the rookie on his team.