“It’s a caricature”

“Whenever I took a game off to rest I immediately sent a check for 1/82 of my salary to the league office because it was money I hadn’t earned and couldn’t accept in good conscience.”

I can’t imagine this kind of thing would be fine in other entertainment products (which pro sports are). If someone bought a ticket to a Broadway show and not just one but every main cast member was replaced by an understudy, the crowd would be pretty angry with this. And if the reason the cast was all understudies…

I’ll just buy 90 Suzuki Samurais instead

Great words but the quotidian needs of movement-building are tough.

Troops the flag my grandfather patriot disrespectful entitled this country United States football freedom black lives matter kneeling voting

I see this.

Sounds like enough to drive a coach to drink!

I think it’s at least fair to argue whether there is a qualitative difference between protesting during the anthem when playing for your club team and protesting during the anthem while playing for your national team.

Pretty funny that for all the talk of the Warriors’ style of play being how the game should be played, and that plodding, grinding, iso-ball is bad for the game...they got beaten by a team playing iso-ball.

only committing to him for six weeks?

Coincidentally, I always thought Ross Douthat was at least 80 years old because of how he writes and because he thinks women don't enjoy sex. Then I find out he’s younger than I am. He’s a millennial. He is the oldest 30-something person ever.

republicans in 2002: EXPORT DEMOCRACY EVERYWHERE

You realize this is a no-win situation for Portland, right? Think of it. If the Blazers lose, we’ll say that they couldn’t beat a Clipper team that didn’t have their stars. If the Blazers win, we’ll say that they didn’t beat a Clipper team that had all of their stars.

DeAndre Jordan: I think it’s safe to say that both of you are going to be terribly missed.

Aminu was quite the character at Wake Forest. The first time I met him it was the summer before his freshman year, and a girl had called me (the RA on duty) at around 3 am because she was locked out of her room. When I got up to the top floor, two girls were standing at the door and Farouq and another basketball…

Because Cleveland is already the Jewel of the Midwest. Our city is so much better than virtually all others in this great country, it would be an embarrassment of riches for Cleveland to enjoy successful sports seasons, too.

As a Portland fan, I was actually looking forward to this season, not because I thought the team would contend for anything other than a top 3 lottery pick, but because I was so glad to see them moving beyond their identity last year, which was basically Lillard + Aldridge scoring about 55-60 points per game and then…

A large orange, left-to-right-moving object?