There really isn’t anything crazy about that, no different than running overpass beams over a highway before mounting the deck and final support. The span just needs to be able to support itself while the permanent installation is completed.

Isn’t that why’d you run best-of-x matches, especially if individual game times aren’t that long?

It’s odd that, of all the Strongmen, he’s really the only one that looks like what you’d expect a Strongman to look like

Good on her for standing up for her less-accomplished sibling

“Let’s make these two catches legal” is the kind of thinking that makes turns rules into the mess they’re trying to fix.

No.

And his shirt split open, poor costume construction

For the wary, for the same price you can get a used Aeron or Steelcase in perfectly good condition for about the same price. All the comfort without any of the embarrassing style.

There is something very alluring about the moment a skater — male or female — unzips and pulls the hood off right after crossing the line, when they transform from alien android to simple humans in peak physical shape wearing a body suit.

The problem with making airplane-launched rockets practical is that those first few miles up are a pretty small fraction of the total energy expended by a rocket, and an airplane isn’t giving the rocket much of a boost. So you’re not saving all that much weight in fuel, but you have to restrict your rocket’s size to…

Spare a thought for that camera mount, its ball joint ruthlessly murdered

I think Cris was just badly torn by the professional knowledge that everything is terrible and imaging all of the ways that a ref could screw it up, and was trying to talk himself into believing so as not to be ruined when the reversal happened.

Is this the speech the national MLK memorial also got wrong?

Where do you put your fritos, between chili and cheese or on top of chili and cheese?

What is a dick but a little hockey stick?

My one atomic take: unplugged Layla is better than electric Layla. We love electric Layla for the rightfully-adored solo, but the not-solo parts aren’t special. Unplugged Layla is a much better song overall, and has a pretty good acoustic solo.

Ultimately the problem with the flu vaccine is that you have to make it before you know what play the flu calls, and by the time you know it’s too late to do anything about it. And we can’t make an uber-vaccine since there’s not a good (known) common attack point across all of the strains.

To become the first team to go back-to-back 0-16, you’ve gotta 0-16 the first season

It’s solidly mid-pack in the NFL this year, but as Seth Walder of ESPN noted before Sunday’s game, Bortles’s Total QBR this year is higher than what Peyton Manning, Flacco, Ben Roethlisberger, and Eli Manning all posted in the 10 last years in seasons in which they won the Super Bowl.

Yeah but define “secures control” in a clear and unambiguous manner for catches that are not as clear and unambiguous as this particular instance.