Maybe they will die of sipphylis or consumption...you know, for the verisimilitude.

So you think ESPN just started talking to these 60 sources 5 days ago? Sounds like grasping for straws to me.

It was not legal,

Now that you mention it, it’s kind of weird that sports leagues hold that power.

Saying “Oh Dear!” after witnessing something that horrible is the most British reaction possible.

I give you guys props though for finding a font more janky than Comic Sans. Coming from a graphic designer, I think it’s spectacular.

Well, the institutions are surely corrupt, but I’m not convinced that, in the cases of, say, Tokyo and London (or possibly Paris and LA), the local bids themselves are a tool for corruption. In the developed world, the bid leaders are just naive as hell.

“With FIFA and the IOC, if you’re going to be corrupt...”

Oh, you think the athletes should boycott? Yeah, do that, go right ahead, the IOC will just get some Tibetan slaves to take their place.

(consults manual of punchlines)

Fuck, wrong sanctioning body ...

To sell their mega-events to the public, the planners of both the World Cup and the Rio Olympics revealed plans that called for huge investments in infrastructure that, though tangential to the events themselves, would vastly improve citizens’ lives. Then, once they won their bids, they conveniently pocketed the money…

I think a footnote is in order for WYTS 2015 Jets edition.

Pretty sure we are the leading nation in spoiled kids

Biggest surprise of this whole story, the kid was not American.

“I had too much to drink and sent inappropriate texts..”

You can’t just strip the Mets of that title, it’s like their only title this millennium.

How is LOLNiners not a Deadspin category yet?

I view it as progress that the only thing I’m unsure of here is what the hell “peeped the lettuce” means.