Hmm, no posts on deadspin since this one, I wonder if they’re shutting down Deadspin as well... Would be par for the course for the shitty hedge fund running GMG. At a certain point this started to look at awful lot like a catch and kill... A corporate takeover of a liberal network of sites to eliminate dissent.

I don’t know many people whose favorite original trilogy character was Luke — most I knew gravitated towards Solo, Leia, Vader, or hell, even Boba Fett. With those flawed characters with complicated motivations the original trilogy was able to create a massive world that we knew was far more expansive than we could…

In this case I’m speaking more towards expectations for future movies... in that sense I think there was a market for an Obi-Wan story but it’s dried up as the new trilogy has replaced the prequel trilogy in many’s minds.

The mobility was a concern for me too until watching him vs Zion in the tournament, I thought his lateral movement looked decent for a guy his size, and like you said, with that wingspan he can recover far faster than most guys when he does get beat. 

That’s the best I can figure too... Ming was tall and had constant health issues therefore every tall dude *must* have joint issues. Never seemed to be an issue for Mutombo...

Very intriguing, I need to drive one. The only car I’ve driven that feels sharper and more communicative is an Exige, and even that didn’t feel better in every category, the Toyota gearbox in particular is a hot mess.

It’s truly mindblowing that he went undrafted after his performances in the tournament, especially considering how good he looked against Zion and Duke. It’s just bizzare to me that 30 teams thought there was no place on their roster for a 7+ footer who can rebound and block shots... Seemed worth a flyer just on…

This is a bit surprising to hear. I figured the C5z would win in terms of straight line performance(putting down the power) but I’m surprised it was better in terms of driver feel, weight transfer and precision handling...

I’ve been kicking around this same idea. Used c7s should be plentiful and cheap, and as far as F/R platforms it’s about as close to ideal as possible. I’d say c7 wins, but I’d chose Supra at the same price point, event without the 500HP, if it offered a manual. It doesn’t have that option though, so I gotta go used C7…

Hard to believe the movie came out 10 years ago... There were indeed people very excited about Avatar when it came out, it got a ton of repeat viewers and people obsessed with the concept, but I'll agree it'd all died off within 3 years. Was a little off on the timeframe. It makes sense that the fans of Pocahontas in…

5 years ago I remember everyone saying McGregor was the only good thing about the prequels and everyone wanted an Obi Wan standalone. Coincidentally, 5 years ago people were excited about an Avatar sequel. Feels like people have moved on and Disney missed the boat on both.

Here’s the thing — I totally believe Diaz on not taking roids, and this decision makes sense because he would be tainted by that accusation forever moving forwards. If he fought and beat Masvidal there would be a cloud over that forever.

It’s weird and stupid and I love it. The drivetrain sounds good, the interior looks spacious, I don’t mind the polarizing looks and you better believe I’m hacking that drone to perform advance scouting duties.

People get an endorphin rush when they get likes and on deadspin comedic comments get the most likes. There’s no dislike option so they can’t get ratio’d other than people commenting on their comment to express displeasure. Meanwhile, the only other take other than an offensive joke is to go ‘oh my fucking God this is…

Just to hazard a guess but fans don’t travel as much in the US so you’d rarely have a stadium broken down even as evenly as 70/30... It’s hard to get a true pandemonium scene with just a few scatterings of fans.

Wow that second one is really hard to watch... 37 injured... I can’t believe that guy is still alive after the stomping.

You are breathing oxygen though, so it's kinda a silly thing to laugh at him over. Yeah, you're also breathing nitrogen, etc but it's still a factual statement unless he said pure oxygen in the video. That said, get your jollies where you can I guess....

Count me interested, would make my Fiat significantly faster and easier to maintain. But of course I’d lose that sweet engine music... Which I’m ok with as long as I retrofit it to make Jetson car noises.

Boxing won’t die over a death, but with the waning popularity of the sport on the whole they should move on to the mandated headgear era.

The throwing stuff out of the apartment thing was bordering on domestic violence in terms of intimidation, but the rape accusations came out after they cut him.