No snark, Hannah Storm handles these unfortunate and unenviable reports with aplomb, striking just the right balance of professionalism and humanism.

I didn’t know Clark the Cub traced his lineage back to Ancient Greece.

Here’s Leonidas’ dick and balls.

Doesn’t count. Everyone who is an actual fan of the Olympics knows that Leonidas is the GOAT. He didn’t have all the fancy accommodations that Olympians have now, like shoes and anti-chaffing nipple tape. Do you know what they did back then if your chaffed nips got infected? They took’em.

more like Leonidas of ‘Roids.

The point of the list isn’t to tout the US’s dominance... it’s to tout Michael Phelps’s dominance. You mention the relatively short amount of time most countries have been in the Olympics. And how some countries have only been in for 20 or so years (which would be 5 Olympic Cycles). Michael Phelps is in his 5th…

Well thanks. I’m a lady Deadspinner, but I will accept honorary bro status for this discussion. I played and coached college volleyball for a long time. It’s the sport I know best.

Bro. You’re spiking the hell out of this discussion.

What you’re seeing is the way that serving philosophy has evolved in the last few (10-15 years) in both the men’s and women’s game—although I would argue that it is more prominent in the men’s game. With the men, if you serve “easy” to get your serve in the court, the opposing team is going to crush the ball back at…

Hey I can answer this! The skyball serve, while mostly a novelty, does (in theory) accomplish a few things.

Whoa. 200 meters, really? I don’t know about beautiful, but just by the description, I’m gonna say... yeah, that’s a big-ass butterfly.

More like Adrian Parabola, amirite? *gets volleyball spiked in the face*

I don’t think that would be sports nationalism, so much as “I have a rival and I want to crush him directly”, a.k.a. ‘being competitive’

Summer Olympic Gold Medals since 1896 (all sports):

I dunno...KRS-One, Eminem or Rakim might have something to say about that.

I, for one, welcome tiny women dunkers.

To celebrate, everyone in the green pool!!!

Editor’s notes:

They laughed at my job. I laughed at their screams!