Intent can be inferred from someone's actions. If there is evidence that Stewart swerved into Ward and there is no other apparent reason for the swerve (e.g., an obstacle on the track) except animus, Stewart could face homicide charges. The first video definitely shows Stewart swerving, but it is unclear (1) when…

You make it sound like Ward ran into Stewart's car; that doesn't seem likely.

"To suggest he did it on purpose is ridiculous."

It certainly looks like Stewart swerved to the right; don't know if this was prior to contact (intentional) or as a result of contact (accidental?)

No.

"f Bonds had retired after the 1998 season, he would have done so with 99.6 career rWAR. This would rank him No. 32 all-time." And he would have been a unanimous, first ballot HOF pick in 2003. Instead, he got greedy and (along with a lot of other on- and off-field participants) kind of fucked up half-a-generation…

I'm no Celtics fan, but in the same way that the 1920's Yankees/Ruth teams were "MLB greats", the Celtics/Russell teams were "NBA greats". That is to say, they were great then and had they played in the current era, Ruth and Russell would be great today.

Simmons has kind of reached the stage where this is viewed as a failure because he didn't get the second out.

My daughter went to Oregon for a year. Before her summer orientation, my only knowledge of the school was based on what I saw on sports programming, so I assumed the ubiquity of Nike would not be as pronounced in reality. Wrong. For the entire weekend, I'm not sure I saw any athletic gear that wasn't Nike. It's a…

The University of Oregon IS effectively the Nike corporate HQ; that's the point of the story.

I have never personally known any Scientologists, but I have known a number of Cross-Fitters, so I'm pretty sure I've known some Scientologists.

Jeter gets the benefit of being a player in New York. He is probably a HOFer, but will undeservedly get in on the first ballot; he's had 2 good seasons in the past decade, yet made All-Star games in 8 of them. Fox is just riding the dead horse.

After the Round of 16, I used the FIFA ranking projection widget to see where the US would end up and was surprised to see that we would fall in the rankings despite how well we did in the WC. This is actually better than what I had projected (I think I had them 18). Either way, it doesn't seem to make sense that the…

I'm not really sure I understand the reasoning for the limited substitution rule in soccer. From a competitive view, it certainly is less interesting watching extra time being played by half-hustling, exhausted players. And for every last-minute, super-strategery, Louis Van Gaal substitution, there are 10 in which…

"In 1959 they boasted a record five top draft picks (Chuck Share, Ray Felix, Frank Selvy, Rod Hundley, and Elgin Baylor)."

Has a team ever been outscored like this in the "final four" of a WC? 10 - 1? Has any team had two worse consecutive games than Brazil this year at any point in any WC? So, so astonishing.

Yeah, but fans are always idiots (says a fan) when it comes to "their" team. The point of the story is that Red Sox management has a history of media campaigns against former players, campaigns that are aided and abetted by Boston-area media (which are also always idiots when it comes to "their" team). A.J. is and…

I know that you intended "women: make everything you consume with your own hands or risk rape!" to be a bitter joke, but I tell it to my daughters all the time. Fuck this world.

During the Mexico/Netherlands game, they kept showing the crowd gathered in large public squares in the D.F. and other Mexican cities. The crowds looked very Mestizo. But the Mexican supporters in the stands looked very European (and this was on general crowd shots, not just the cheesecake shots on which you focus).…

Well, this post is waaaay after the game, so hindsight, 20/20 and all. Low moved Lahm back to right back and you saw what happened. Hats off to Graham Ruthven for his strategic acumen.