“reporters making assertions on which they base confident explanations of how things work without having looked into them or knowing what they’re talking about”

I can’t believe this is the shit we argue about in 2016 and that Donald Trump could be our president next week. What the hell happened?

When I was ten years old, all I wanted to be was a sportswriter. Being from the DC area, and writing for my school paper, I called up the Post sports desk and asked to speak to Michael Wilbon, Thomas Boswell, Tony Kornheiser, and Jennifer Frey. All four of them eventually called me back including Wilbon who had just…

I don’t understand all the hate for this game so I will defend it.

This was savage. If he did this in a major (or any other tourney with fans in attendance), the place would have gone ape nuts.

Maybe that should be made clear in the article, because I was also confused.

You must have missed the “Dr. V’s Magical Putter” story.

The biographical information about an author helps those seeking deep examinations of that author’s work, since what individuals produce - whether written, musical, visual, etc. - is inevitably shaped by individual circumstance. Knowing the identity of one who creates isn’t just a trivial factoid of barely-relevant…

Alexander Zverez (Germany) also had a nice weekend, winning his first ATP title over Stan Wawrinka - coming back from a break down in the third set. Also beat Berdych in the semis. Guy’s only 19 and #24 in the world (a bit behind Pouille) - as anyone that age and rank, a bit inconsistent - he’s beaten Stan and Fed…

so thats what a seventh degree burn looks like...

Sounds like enough to drive a coach to drink!

Yeah, it’s just one. The column could not possibly be more obviously not directed at high school football players, so invoking them as the true audience of the piece is patronizing in the extreme.

he likes to eat diarrhea on a hot dog

The most American thing someone can do is to leave a baseball game early.

What’s worse, the duffel bag had a history of carrying weapons.

He’s taken it to another level. I’ve never thought of Durant as being a poor defender by any means, but I never thought of him as an elite shutdown wing or rim protector, either; I’ve just thought of him as, you know, there. But now, he’s everywhere...and it’s glorious. This, combined with watching Westbrook go super…

Good for him. Most college kids would hit the pipe.

The love the ability to get a fourth out — or, as a runner, the ability to steal a run if the defense doesn’t realize that a fourth out is possible...

Problem is, when you buy LSD or anything like that, you don’t know for sure what you’re getting. Around SDSU when I was in college, a great deal of the drugs people were getting were “designer” imposters that imitated the effects of the certain drugs. It easily may not have been LSD.

That being said, I can’t take…