The reason that Costas’ point is absurd (and yes, I realize I am calling yours absurd by extension) is that the entire thing is a cynical Look at Me Sports Me SPORTS Look at SPORTS and ME cashgrab. The awards for Mandela and Jenner are literally the least meme cynical part of the entire thing. Nobody is going to care…

Yes, an award for the exact same thing is far more appropriate 14 months after the fact rather than 2 months after the fact...what? This makes no fucking sense.

I do love it when I put a comment in a Gawker media group post about trans anything and 2 weeks later a random piece of hate speech shows up on my feed. So wunderbar.

You know, I see where you and Chattygal are coming from theoretically, but as someone who was born after Jenner’s Olympic bids, someone who didn’t really know much about Jenner at all but still was aware of her fame in a general sense for most of my adult life, such as it was, I see the ESPY award as exactly the…

What legitimate hesitations? The ESPYs are literally whatever, but what is a legitimate hesitation about giving an award for courage to a world-famous athlete who did something that takes a tremendous amount of courage?

“I just pooped”

Yes.

Wait, the Vuvuzela would not have become a phonomenon had the NCAA not cheated to give the Cup to South Africa? RE-ELECT BLATTER.

Blatter should be drawn and quartered for shaking hands with this fucking shirt.

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They don’t just end in S. They are plurals. Someone on the Jets isn’t ‘A Jets’, they are ‘A Jet’. The Jets imply ‘a group of Jets’. That is popularly how American teams are named. Conversely, if they refer to the team in a singular sense (“the team is planning on selling meth to its fans this season”, “Gang Green is a…

That was Ricky Davis. Unless it was also Bob Sura. Must be a Cleveland thing.

Well...I see what he’s saying. You wouldn’t say the Jets was a power two decades ago. One, this would be false, as the Jets were never a power, and two, it’s a pluralized form of a collective entity. However, I still think it is wrong; for example, the Indians (plural) are often referred to as the Tribe (singular) and…

Yeah, ‘was’ is really the only applicable choice here; Norway is being referred to as a singular noun.

...what the fuck is wrong with you people?

I felt a surge of battle lust seeing the Norwegian national womens’ soccer team. It will be time for a reckoning. Man, all you people are SO lucky we didn’t invent guns first.

As a Cavs fan, I just want to say to you, on behalf of all Cavs fans

Maybe we can make an Oakland-Cleveland league to, well, go around to all the bigger cities who make fun of our cities and, you know. Genocide.

Technical hangups? Not trying to down on your technology guys (unless it’s just you journalists trying to figure it out, in which case I am) but if there are technical reasons that you can’t pull this off you need your technology team to step up their game.