This is batshit. Even in his diminished state last year, Cousins was a massive physical presence, a gifted scorer and a top-shelf passer for a big man. Despite his limitations, he played with commendable defensive effort (most of the time), and if he stays committed to giving that effort should only improve as he…

The solution is to actually make bike lanes separate lanes, separated by concrete. Something like this:

I was riding into work the morning a woman got right hooked by a box truck on Addison and Damen. Drivers just flat out don’t have any awareness of bicycles unless they have a close call. The habit of doing something like looking over you left shoulder before you get out of your car just isn’t taught.

I’ve been a commuting cyclist in Chicago for over a decade. I’ve been hit a few times and had 2-3x as many close calls. I pass ghost bikes (white-painted memorials for cyclists murdered on the city’s streets) daily and it never gets any less haunting. What makes me ache even more about every preventable death…

All street parking, especially in downtown cores, should be removed. It occupies wasted space that causes more traffic problems than it solves “This unused lane of traffic, oh shit a parked car, now i have to try and get out” “this is a nice drive. OH SHIT *swerves* as someone who parked on the street just opened…

Great story, Patrick. It sucks that it even has to be written when we are more than 10 years into a cycling boom, especially for utility cycling vs. sport.

Since we’re generalizing to all cyclists and car drivers.... let’s remember that when a car driver does stupid shit to a cyclist, cyclist gets killed. When a cyclist does stupid shit to a car, maybe a dent.

Yeah, man, it’s almost like drivers are getting grumpy when bikes put themselves at risk, and bikers are getting grumpy when others are putting THEM at risk. So weird!

Bikes don’t kill people. Cars do. 

It’s extremely rare that a cyclist puts anyone in danger by not being “experienced in driving in traffic.” It’s even more rare that a cyclist would put anyone besides themselves in danger by doing so. On the other hand, car drivers are piloting around several tons of metal at very high speeds, so when they fuck up…

yes, there’s very fine people on both sides

I live and bike commute in a midwest college town. Local cops park in the bike lane to speed trap. I gave a “what the hell?” arm wave one day when passing around a parked cop car that was particularly hard to see because of lighting conditions and dense morning car traffic. The cop followed me all the way into my…

Since gen 3, each pokemon generation has sold abouut 32 million games pretty much like clockwork.

If they cut Pokemon refresh but included all the other pokemon, nobody would care. It was a side gimmick most people didn’t use.

This is because of greed and laziness. Nothing more.

> But don’t attack, harass or insult the people making this game.

I guess they’re intending to keep the rest of the national Dex for when they remake 4th Gen or do the second release of Sword & Shield.

Great read, what is with all these great Deadspin articles these past few days?

Unfortunately, having searched its collection more than 200 years later, the British Museum told me it can find no record of George Wilson’s toenails.

Warriors Revolution: What if we play basketball based on absurd 3-point shooting and spacing, creating openings with swift ball movement and requiring defenses to guard shots previously thought impossible? We’ll play with a small, quick lineup, that will outpace slower, larger players, making them either lose on…

Yeah, everything’s coming up snake eyes... or thirteen... or a magic spell just worked against an elf.