I fucking love that Deadspin has fascinating and well-written articles like these, where when you read the headline you momentarily wonder if it’s just a randomly generated string of words, and then you realize that no, there really were two Kentucky farmers that became kings of croquet.
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But why would Dolphins fans be burning Charlotte Hornets jackets?
Has anyone ever wondered if this hideous, Twilight Zone-esque timeline of the past few years is really a comatose dream? That all of these bizarre events are really your subconscious trying to provoke your consciousness, even comatose, into recognizing that these events are unreal, implausible, and that you’re truly…
More universities need to have ominous sounding names, "The Spire," "The Catacombs," "Arby's," etc.
Bravo. If you had worked “Paraag Marathe” into the rhyme scheme, we might be talking Nobel Prize.
Don’t cricket stans exist specifically because the imperialists won?
I didn’t come here expecting to hear about cricket, but you know what? I’m down.
Oh, come on. The only exclusively cricket term was “T20.” You just saw the word “cricket” and your brain shut off. It’s pretty common in this country.
Which would you really rather have when you grow up?
Somebody installed the fistball expansion pack.
That’s actually a meat that they sell so there’s no need for an analogy.
And I looked back and saw only one set of footprints in the sand, and I asked God, “Why, when I needed you most, why did you abandon me?” God replied, “No, Antonio, it was then that I carried you. Because you cryogenically froze your fucking feet. This was one month ago! How do you not remember this?”
This will also be a factor (as well as the general incompetence of the Raiders) in attracting free agents to the Raiders the next few years. Of course, it looks like the Raiders don’t want to attract star free agents, so maybe it won’t matter.
Yes, this article and this comment. Finally some analysis that refuses to accept the NFL culture of authority-measuring as a given. Voiding the contract isn’t some minor detail in AB’s diva act; it’s the whole ballgame.
That’s an odd takeaway. It’s more highlighting how good organizations don’t even let it get to the point where someone like AB might go full tantrum by managing their egos from the get-go, and what specific missteps these orgs make time and time again that throw their diva WRs under the bus.
It wasn’t just fining him for missing practice, though that was stupid and led to the blowup last Tuesday or whatever. They had worked all that out! Mayock won the ridiculous manliness contest he was having and got Brown to issue a tearful apology in front of the entire team. He put him in his place, made the guy…
Children aren’t good for anything. Adults who are better at what they do, and who can do more to help you win games more than all but maybe a dozen people on earth, get that kind of leeway. Welcome to the real world.
“How I can tell you’ve never managed adults before.”
The soccer ball felt like a bag of sand.