I agree; thank you for saying this. I've noticed, especially on the weekends, coverage of sporting events is being sidelined in favor of "whimsy" stories. For instance, last weekend on Deadspin, you'd never have known the U.S. Open men's tournament was taking place but for a golf cart collision earning a stand-alone…

Last weekend was the U.S. Open men's tournament. The only reason it was mentioned on Deadspin at all was because a golf cart collided with a state trooper's leg.

To be honest, several of these plot points sound like submissions to the annual Carolyn Hax Wedding Hootenanny.

Spoken like someone who never actually reads Jezebel.

It's seriously that big an imposition for you, as a reader, to take a millisecond and click on what was linked for a more thorough explanation? Wanting someone else to do "a little bit of work" for you is basically the definition of asking to have your hand held.

I read news so I don't have to go to the source.

Stupid Kinja is, of course, refusing to display the image in any of the browsers I've tried but I'm going to take a stab here - Taylor Swift? :)

Bravo!

Nothing gives my heart the warm fuzzies like a guy I broke up with showing up at my home and crooning about locking the door.

But it isn't about her feelings (or lack thereof); it's about the perception of her feelings in how she responds. Think of those stupid videos that were popular for a while - even the ones debunked as fake - that showed some guy making a public proposal getting turned down, or receiving an answer like, "Can we talk…

Sure. It's also possible that guys who stage very public marriage proposals genuinely love the woman to whom they are proposing. However, choosing to do something - be it propose marriage or beg someone to give you a second chance - in such a manner that makes the receiving party look like an utter cold and completely…

"You're My Fantasy," "Lock the Door," "Whatever I Want," "Forever Love" - if a woman was writing this shit, she'd easily be called a delusional psycho.

Oh dear god - tonight's top story on Fox25: Aaron Hernandez was taken to a hospital yesterday. For an hour. No one knows why. But nevertheless, it led the newscast. *sigh*

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I'm torn; while I'm all for people enjoying their jobs, and being and enthusiastic doing them, there's nothing worse than being trapped listening to someone's attempt at open mic night. Surely there's a happy tone to be found between "airborne comedy club" and "Selma Bouvier."

Even if he had been going the speed limit, though, this still in all likelihood would have been a fatal crash. Her wrong - going zero miles per hour by intentionally parking in a 55-mile-per-hour travel lane - is the only mitigating circumstance that should be considered.

she did not see the ducklings' mother anywhere and planned to capture them and take them home

Even at age ten, I could spot, and would actively avoid coming into contact with, derivative garbage on screen ;)

Again, Shaughnessy is a frequent target of Deadspin. Not frequent enough for my tastes, but I'll take whatever slams they send his way. Worth reading up on:

Considering that I have Pluto's book on my shelf along with countless others related to sports in general and baseball in particular, yes, I have heard of the former; and the latter is credited to the owner of the fucking Billy Goat Tavern and the term itself to Mike Fucking Royko (another one whose name adorns…