Hot take:

Aaron Rodgers is finally happy that he fell to the Packers with the 24th pick.

MTV’s The Challenge is a pretty egregious oversight. Thats appointment television! Sure, in order to be on the show, you need to have been on Real World or another game show (Are You the One), but that’s no less exclusive than making it onto Top Chef.

Shaq is a dick. Cracking jokes or whatever happens. But now you’re singling out a journeyman.... for what, Barkley’s studio laughs?

He’ll never waive his no trade to land in Milwaukee, but his offensive game is basically what we hoped Jabari would eventually mature into (pre-ACL).

This is what I took away from the story as well. Fox Sports has gobbled up so much former ESPN talent that I legitimately don’t know who works for who.

I can’t believe all the positive press and “look the other way” reporting on Deadspin’s behalf when covering Leicester City.

Thankful that there was too much racial tension at my high school for nonsense like this to take root during my football / wrestling days.

Even the Today Show hosts roasted this little tyrant, asking “isn’t there supposed to be more to college athletics than the final score?”

The chair, meanwhile, remains GTD.

I agree. By his comments, he seemed a little more impartial than you would expect from a big time college coach. Maybe a tad defensive towards the end of the piece, but we’ll have to wait until we get more information about how much was known and when.

Sounds like he understands that “witness” can turn into “suspect” at any time, and that he’s covering his bases regarding why a potential suspect is still playing.

Advantage Cruz:

So Bagwell and Pudge are in line to make the HOF, while Bonds drifts along slowly gaining support to someday be inducted...

Basically the reason people assume Bonds took steroids - because lesser talented ball players get the acclaim while his otherworldly talents get overlooked.

Now the Hall of Fame is inducting…

Around the 4:30 mark, Brown gets excited to have 40k viewers on his livestream. THEY JUST PLAYED A GAME IN FRONT IF MILLIONS, AND HE’S EXCITED FOR 40K VIEWERS ON FACEBOOK!

For a site intent on demonizing and grandstanding on big hits and the results of CTE, you sure have no problem capitalizing on the sensationalism of the hits themselves.

Time for some other guys:

Mike Dunleavy Really Doesn’t Want To Play For The Hawks [Update]

That word. I don’t think it means (to them) what you think it means.