Used to be nobody gave a shit if an athlete was a Jr. or a III unless the father had been a player. Now it’s not only always included or mentioned, but there is the dumb practice of putting Jr. and III on the jersey nameplate with the last name. If your name is Jesse Jackson Jr., you might be differentiated from your…

But why would you bother doing anything once you made your million? And what financial incentive would you have to invest money that could result in jobs for others? You don’t understand the role that risk plays in economic activity. Risk-taking leads to great successes, and failures, but people won’t take risks if…

Well, if you’ve said it before, that settles it.

Actually, I still don’t know what your point is. The Times wasn’t making any sweeping judgment or asking you to “care.” It was making the point that some TV shows are trying to depict the types of places that young people without a pile of parental money typically live in in New York.---in contrast to placing…

Whence the assumption that folks who come to Deadspin with the expectation of seeing sports stories are hungry for left-wing political screeds? I am guessing Univision is either stuck with the SJWs of Gawker or is just keeping them on the payroll for a decent interval after shuttering the site, but maybe it could just…

By the Gawker rule of We Are Morally Superior and Aren’t Afraid to Point It Out, some boneheaded but not malicious acts of cultural appropriation are on the same Racist! scale as Klan rallies and lynchings. And it feels so good to call people racists.

To me, the main problem is their contention that they couldn’t blur the kid’s face. Of course they could in the photo they released to the public. If one demanded to see the unblurred original, they might have to comply, but the press probably would have been fine showing it with the blurred face.

You are still seeming to imply that leaving the kid in the car for an extra 10 seconds added to his peril at the time. And remember that no matter what, they were going to take the picture for evidence; your quarrel is with them publicly releasing it.

They have to do something with the band of SJWs they have sitting around from Gawker. The question is—for how long?

Not to mention big cities, like Chicago, where much of the growth is not outward but filling in closer-in suburbs.

I am not getting the argument for extending the game on a grounding. The penalty is supposed to penalize the QB for avoiding a sack. If he takes the sack, the clock does the same thing, no? The grounding didn’t give some advantage in ending the game, so why give the untimed play?

There should be some kind of First Amendment exemption to allow prosecution of writers who start their argument with the “Webster’s defines X as ....”

Your hypotheticals are possible, for what it’s worth, but Ruddd is correct that the penalty is predicated on the idea that if the grounding hadn’t occurred, it would have been a sack, not a turnover, since the refs don’t turn the ball over to the other team.

Headline makes it sound like it just happened. Headline should be, Cavaliers Reveal That Shumpert Was Arrested for DUI

In a Mazda 3, 2.3 gallons = 69-94 miles? Highway in my 2013. Otherwise 60, maybe, in mixed driving.

Slavvy play all around.

Not only Deadspin, but Deadspin Now Incorporating the SJWs of Gawker!

I just remember even after he’d been hurt and so forth, folks were promoting his arm and head for the NFL game over the way other NU quarterbacks with better careers had been.

It had kind of become the narrative leading up the game, in stories on how he became the Broncos unlikely starter (after having once been the 11th-rated QB in the Big 10).

And a certain type of commenter here who is into, shall we say, declaring, “your criticism of anything Newton does makes you a racist and me good.”