Stupid 16-year-olds. They never see the handshake-bear hug-chokehold move coming until it’s too late. I blame Obama.

When I read the list, I thought, “Huh; Jrue Holiday is playing for the Bulls. How’d I miss that?” Good news: I didn’t miss anything, I just can’t read good. Bad news: everything for Bulls fans.

Hey, organizations embodying racial slurs don’t cause racial slurs, racial slurers cause racial slurs. I’m pretty sure that’s basic 2nd amendment logic.

At the inevitable Congressional hearings/impeachment of Trump, I can also guarantee that Trump says this exact same thing to McConnell.

HamNo: *logical, simple explanation of the fallacy of supply-side economics*

I think that most of the massacres of Native Americans occurred under the ostensible authority of the U.S. (or territorial) government and would therefore be considered acts of war (more accurately, war crimes).

Thank you for this article. Every time I’ve heard the Vegas shooting described by the media over the past few days as the “worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history”, I kept asking why there were using the adjective “modern”. Being a middle-class white man, I assumed they were being overly pedantic, as if there was…

I’m going to agree with @cwolf, infra, on this: there are not nearly enough competent QBs in the world to fill the 32 starting slots in the NFL. With the game being run the way it is currently, QBs have maxed out physically and intellectually; they can’t get bigger, stronger, and faster (at least to any positive…

This is the best take on the Weeden signing: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/10/03/brandon_weeden_gets_colin_kaepernick_s_job.html.

Dude. Are you seriously looking for ethical foundation, narrative honesty, and social awareness in the WWE? I applaud your perspective, but c’mon. It is an organization built on making shit up. Its to commercial organizations what Trump is to humans.

I’m confused: are you saying the NCAA’s eternal witch hunt of UNLV/Tarkanian is evidence that they “hammer the big guys”? They don’t; they hammer the Cleveland States while the money-makers (Duke, UK, UNC in basketball; the entire SEC and Big 12 in football) get an occasional stern look or maybe an admonishment.

“This idea that they’re not professionals is nonsense. They’re not there like normal students and we shouldn’t pretend that they are. Some of them, yes, go to class, but most of them are students differently because they’re there for athletics and not academics.”

“there are precedents they could use, such as the fact that AS Monaco competes in the French League”

If I squint and have a drink or two, I can almost see this working offensively. Love does three things well: shoot, pass, and rebound. I’m assuming they’ll play him at a high post, out of which he has always been a great pick and roll option or where he can be trusted to make the 17-footer or hit the cutter. More…

Love breaks Sanders’s single-season rushing record, Stanford finishes up in a prime (but not New Years Day) bowl, and he maybe gets invited to the Heisman ceremony. Maybe. Meanwhile, Saquon Barkley, Baker Mayfield, and Jalen Hurts keep running up stats on nobodies and have already booked their flights. Welcome to…

Jesus, I want Ohm Youngmisuk writing my resume. 5-7-8 are “triple-double-like” in the same way I’m “Mark Zuckerberg-like” or “Elon Musk-like” or even “Clark Griswold-like”.

Let’s not oversell the pre-draft analysis here, Chris. Yes, everyone had him as one of the top 3 or 4, but with the distinct caveat that he had to do something about his hideous shot before his game was NBA complete. Nothing that’s happened since has really changed that. He’s still kind of Jason Kidd at this point…

One of the downsides to limited playoffs in MLB (unlike the NBA or NHL where everybody gets a playoff slot) has always been that there is a lot of meaningless games being played in September. Although increasing the WC to two teams has changed that to some degree, I’ve always liked teams going nowhere trying to keep…

“As of publication, Rivers was still mad, and will probably be for a while, because he plays for a poorly supported team that also constantly lets him down.”

“In a political environment where Trump is regularly referred to as a racist under the newly expanded definition”