But think about your average CBS pre-game show watcher. They are going to eat that shit up.

“Maybe it’s just an unwritten rule.” Great, let’s make football more like baseball. We should check with Brian McCann to get final judgement on this.

“Filming from an unapproved location” has quite a different tone then implying that the filming itself was illegal. It’s 66 in a 65 zone instead of mass murder. And you well know it.

Is doesn’t take a bird lover to know that the Jayhawk is closely related to the Swallow.

I don’t think it can be pointed out often enough the degree to which the NFL, in actuality, does not give a shit about the military but uses the partnership for 1) profit and 2) so that all the military nomenclature that is shit out the mouths of the Bucks and Nantzes of the world of a thin veneer of support from the…

Good. Almost too good.

We were a few sections over and watched them do cpr for 10 minutes. I immediately said, great A-rod just killed a guy. Almost simultaneously my wife slapped me for being insensitive.

“hoozeband”

News flash to today’s parents: every generation has bitched about “kids these days”. We (parents) are not special in this regard. Taking crap away from children that we got ourselves doesn’t accomplish anything for them, it just makes you temporarily feel better about your own shortcomings. Until you look for the next…

A fucking men. Fuck James Harrison. Hope he gave back his 2005 Super Bowl ring since he had zero tackles in those playoffs.

Get well soon, John.

“With FIFA and the IOC, if you’re going to be corrupt...”

Be careful, Samer.

The answer to both of these questions and every similar question is Barry.

Rousey’s clearly more dominant, but I think that’s at least as much a function of the level of competition. Serena’s been doing her thing for so long, against so many different women. Serena’s way more impressive.

I’d like us to do a better job of covering the big events in weird/Olympic sports. Somebody that wrote about the tennis/golf majors, Tour de France, big swimming/track meets or world championships, the Triple Crown etc. Not really a vertical, though.

Yeah, definitely. He’s working on some good business and labor related stories now, in fact.

Kevin Draper’s stuff on the NBA, particularly on it’s labor issues is nothing short of outstanding. Best anywhere. Is he gonna be Deadspin’s point man on this beat next season?