To be fair, while violence is distasteful, I’m not sure it’s distasteful in the same way that groping little girls is distasteful.  

Oh, fuck off.

You know, this is a horseshit comment, and while your intentions are no doubt good, you appear to have forgotten where you’re aiming. This is Kotaku. We have our faults, but pulling punches ain’t one of them.

This hits very close to home. About two years ago I was booked from Seattle to Capetown for what was supposed to be an adventure. I arrived at the airport prepared for my flight and was told I would be routed through Moscow. Great. Mid air, right when we could turn on the computers, and Russian agent approached me and…

The one to rule them all.

The first one that should be fired is McCarthy. He is horrific as a coach.  The only reason he remains the coach is because of Rodgers.  I’m glad Aaron is somewhat ok (albeit I still think he tore something in the knee) but the Packers need a new head coach. 

“Wherever you happen to fall on Serena’s behavior Saturday night, I’m sure you agree with me that this is the umpire’s fault.”

If you were watching you saw Serena actually thank Ramos for hearing her out after the first warning. At that point she had moved ahead in the 2nd set. But after having her serve broken and falling behind again she smashed her racket and started up again with Ramos. In every sport there are penalties for this type of…

Coach acknowledged he was giving signals. He gave a warning. She didn’t lose a point until after smashing the racket and then going off. 

The umpire was right on all three of those calls. It sounds like Williams thought the “coaching” warning was rescinded because she told the umpire she’s not a cheater, but of course that’s not how that penalty works. The call is made against the coach (who admitted he was coaching from the stands), so the player can’t…

Can we please stop with the Serena worship? She’s a titan of tennis, a superb athlete, but she’s not without flaws, without her faults. She’s petulant, and this isn’t the first or worst instance of abusing an official in her career.

She did not take it like a champ. Serena takes the majority of the blame for this fiasco. She’s the one who ruined Naomi’s victory with her behavior.

First warning to Serena for coaching. Her own coach admitted to Pam Shriver after the match that he had indeed tried to coach her. The gesture was meant for her to approach the net more often. He thought she hadn’t noticed it, but still, it’s the attempt that matters. Players have been using this excuse (“I didn’t…

You're an idiot. 

This article is terrible.

God, that was some bullshit. Everybody lost: Serena, the public, and especially Naomi, who turned in a world-class performance but now will always have an asterisk accompany any mention of this victory. It was an all-around bummer. What a weird moment to enforce the coaching restriction, topped by that overkill game…

This was so hard to watch. I hope Naomi Osaka knows she would have won this match on her own if all of this shit hadn’t happened.

Gregg Williams is a bounty of bad takes.

Baseball’s been played in Japan since the early 1870s, and it became nationally popular by the 1890s. The Japanese High School Championship (the Summer Tournament as it’s called) dates back to 1915.