“So, we captured Ft. Sumter. Mission Accomplished!” - The Confederacy’s version of Condoleezza Rice, ca. 1866

Dog bites man. Why is this news?

io9's Managing Editor, Jill Pantozzi has revealed far too much about herself.

“I want an XLB that bans any player under age 35 and 25 BMI. The ratings in the flyover states would SKYROCKET.”

The Kawhi thing continues to baffle me. He was a typical Spur until something happened, then it all went south real fast. I have to believe Popovich has some responsibility in this, but his track record argues (volumes) against that. This could end up as one of the most tragic 30-for-30s ever.

If the Cavs make it to the Finals (where they will get destroyed by any of 3 Western possibles), we will have seen the greatest individual performance in NBA history. This isn’t Iverson carrying the 2001 76ers on his 6'0" back (he had rebounding and defensive help from Mutombo, Ratliff, and Hill): this is Lebron and…

The media has always been self-interested. It exists solely to sell soap, just like any other commercial enterprise. The reason that journalism ethics is adhered to in any way is because the media has operated under the belief that facts matter to people and they don’t want to be accused of being a bad source for…

“Give me a break, I’m not a scientist.”

Your confidence in Thomas’s upside is admirable, but I think, misplaced. How much better was his game going to get in college? He would likely have been the same player (albeit, one with more college-level accolades), still 5'10", and would have exposed himself to 30+ games of wear-and-tear/injury-risk. At his height,…

I don’t understand this, particularly given the Sixers’ lack of success with keeping highly-drafted, young talent on the floor. They’ve got 10 games to go in their first nominally successful season in forever and they’re locked into the playoffs as one of the many teams with zero chance to win the championship. What…

Took place in Virginia? Check. Features lacrosse? Check. Involves white people being upset by getting caught, not by the underlying behavior? Check.

I’m not in favor of overgeneralizing about a culture but Russians are objectively the worst.

Its hard to emphasize how shitty that 2016 Niners team was; there was very little NFL starter-level talent anywhere on the field. There have been few franchise implosions as bad as what the Niners subjected themselves to after the 2014 season (I don’t count the Browns because they never had a solid base from which to…

I still think the most memorable mid-major run was Penn back in 1979. They were a 9 seed, but there were only 40 teams in the tournament. And it wasn’t like this was peach baskets and two-handed set shots basketball; they lost in the Final Four to Magic Johnson and MSU. I don’t think this was comparable to a 15 seed…

“Mid-major” as a conference designation works when there is relative parity across the conference. The MAC is mid-major because all the teams play at about the same level (with about the same level of athletic funding). When an individual team is an outlier for the rest of the conference, the “mid-major” designation…

Basketball refs are the worst. Rankings of worst officiated sports:

I live in Palo Alto and have been to a lot of Stanford women’s games. I appreciate the women’s game almost as much as I love the men’s game. But this game represents the huge talent divide that exists in women’s basketball: there just aren’t enough good women to go around. Girls’ participation in high school sports is…

Harden is great, but his “ability” to dink the refs into calling fouls on his “shots” is bad for the game. Its one more step on the NBA’s inexorable journey towards WWE-, Globetrotter-level officiating.

For a team like the Astros, with so many Hispanic stars, representing a heavily Hispanic city, to even show up to give Trump a sports boner is galling. I don’t care how uncomfortable Altuve looked: he’s a bitch for showing up.

I thought we were calling it the “G League” now. I don’t really care, I just want to call it by the right name. I’m still have FBS/FCS problems.