Like a liter. That would be better.

I'm not sure that's entirely true when it comes to pitching injuries. A guy can go multiple seasons without any debilitating injuries, but the cumulative effect builds up until he suddenly blows a tendon. Tim Lincecum was famous for his horrific mechanics, but it was justified by "he has never missed a start and has…

On an only tangentially-related note: I think NFL teams would look cooler with the old solid body, striped-sleeve uniform look.

So assuming the report itself isn't Ferry's words, it actually makes Ferry look better, in that he seems to have dropped some of the more ignorant racial characterizations from the report. If he dropped the first 17 words, he's fine.

"Roll, roll, . . . where's the receiver? WHERE'S THE FUCKING RECEIVER?!!! Oh, there he is . . . this is how you football; touchdown motherfuckers! [throws]. What. The. HELL??!! Jesus, I've got to get some glasses; I could have sworn that's where he was."

I was under the impression that, at the beginning of this whole fiasco, Rice admitted to the NFL that he hit Janay Rice and knocked her out. I fail to understand how he could have "minimized" this in the original telling:

No, but thanks for the idea; they are impressive.

Only if you define "problem" as "something in excess of a national average". I would say the NFL has a domestic violence problem because they have players who admit beating their significant others (a crime in every jurisdiction in America) and the league considers this less of an issue than it does marijuana…

"Then . . . scientists put them on a treadmill and ran them to their maximum heart rate."

"If you're looking for an apple-flavored booze this fall, you've got a lot of options."

The clip shown on "The Daily Show" from an interview with Goodell sums up everything wrong with the guy. When asked if the NFL really needed the second video to determine the severity of Rice's punishment, Goodell explicitly said no; they had all the evidence they needed based on the evidence known to them at the…

The NFL is cool with breast cancer awareness because very few of its employees cause cancer. Domestic violence on the other hand . . .

"Okay, tonight, you be the Giant Octopus and I'll be the Japanese maiden." "Cool!"

When Letterman was on NBC, he had a recurring sketch with the "NBC Bookmobile Lady". One of the segments aired after the Godfather of Soul, James Brown, had been arrested for domestic violence. The segment featured a new book by Brown, titled "Womans Be Thinking Too Much". While this is racist, it is also funny. It is…

Yeah, looking at her and seeing her judgment in action, I'm thinking mojitos were not on the menu. More like Bacardi 151 with a whisper of Coke.

I thought the original sanctions were extreme, given that the crimes committed weren't really related to running of the football program. Having said that, the behavior exhibited by Penn State fans since all this came out leads me to desire even stronger sanctions. Particularly their deification of Paterno: a once…

This is why "fixing" the things you already fucked up only leads to more fucking up unless you just bite the bullet, admit to being wrong, take your lumps, and move on. I'm sure there is sufficient wriggle room in Rice's contract for the Ravens to legally terminate it, but the NFL punished a guy (inadequately) for one…

My dad started for Stanford in basketball for two years and in vollyeball for 4 years in the '50's. He didn't care much about the team mascot when they changed it to "Cardinal", but he says he is humiliated by the fuckin' tree. My brother and I are Cal grads, so we just mock the tree every chance we get.

Almost completely off-topic, but one of my favorite CalTech stories involves a guy a year ahead of me in high school. He was 6'6" and loved basketball, but was unfortunately horrible so he never played for the school team. But he was very smart and went to CalTech. My senior year, we hosted a big basketball tournament…

I basically agree with you; he is most disparaging of Southern whites. But it does reveal a certain racial ignorance on Levenson's part: Atlanta has historically had one of the more vibrant African-American communities in the US and I question Levenson's assumption that the Hawks couldn't survive without white folks.