That wouldn’t work. They’d probably still do the weight cut, and then they’d just fight as shells of men, and the fights would be shitty and people would get hurt.

I mean, it’s a little different though. Wrestlers have to maintain their weight for months. So, after the initial weight cut, they’re not cutting 20-30 lbs for each competition.

Ehhhh. Ngannou is intriguing, no doubt about that. But the hype train is getting ahead of the engine here. He might very well be the guy people think he is. He’s improved significantly from fight to fight. But he’s also fought a bunch of puds and KO’d a guy who gets KO’d every other fight and who has been for a few…

Ah man. That was a comment more directed toward other basketball players and the like. Not plebes like us. Didn’t mean to be insulting.

I got greyed once because, even though I basically agreed with him, I told Greg Howard he couldn’t title his essay “Bernie Sanders Can’t Save Black People” and then spend the entire article demanding that Bernie Sanders save black people. I got greyed so bad my comments were nonexistent. They wouldn’t even show up in…

Eh. It’s a 3 minute video. If you ain’t Paul Pierce, I don’t understand why anybody would give a shit one way or the other.

haha. Holy shit.

I agree that a person should always go to a medical professional first, for the reasons you explained. I also just think that it’s ok to have a rationally open mind about certain things if traditional western medicine isn’t working. Now, I’m not saying people go full Tom Brady or Russell Wilson, and I am also just…

Nick Anderson at the free throw line.

When I tore my acl in 2012, I couldn’t extend my leg fully, even after surgery and full recovery. I went to two physical therapists over the course of 4 months who couldn’t get my leg to extend fully, and the doctor who performed the surgery didn’t have a “scientific” answer for why it wouldn’t extend beyond some…

My favorite posters are the BS fans who defend BS then claim, “I don’t really like BS.”

Yeah, man, I used to be a dedicated Simmons reader. Now every time I try to catch something he’s written, I feel so dumb. I truly wonder if he was always this bad or if this was just the evolution of a moderately talented writer.

Why is it so hard for some people to believe that even if Kraft wasn’t a meddling owner, that he drew the line at trading Brady?

I agree. Superhero movies are fine. I enjoy them for what they are. I even really like a small handful of them (Spider-Man 2, Superman, Wonder Woman), but I was disappointed to find out they were the focus of the new column. If anything, this column helped me to realize how lame the superhero genre is and how staid…

I prefer JW2, slightly. It’s less concise, and it doesn’t have such a cool, simple hook as the first (i.e. man goes on murder rampage after thugs kill his dog) and maybe that’s what people don’t like about it, but it really expanded the story and the universe in a way I didn’t expect.

I agree with the general point of your comment, but the Title IX issue was also related to cost. It costs institutions significant amount of money to add athletic programs—scholarships, equipment, fields/pools/courts/etc, coaches, etc. So for a lot of smaller institutions, adding programs was not necessarily a good…

No, I’m with you on both accounts. But the majority of people who read my post apparently don’t think steroids is a contributing factor to his hair loss.

No. It’s the fact that he’s built like a linebacker, never gets injured, is playing at his best after more than a decade in the league, despite playing with a style that it is violent to his body and started losing his hair in his mid-20s that makes me suspicious.

I mean, it’s a possibility.

Makes me think maybe he is on roids.