Yes, this market definitely exists. People who like shoes REALLY like shoes. But this market doesn’t exist for Brooks and that’s the problem. The status symbol mass market athletic shoes in the US lean heavily on celebrity endorsement (Jordan, KD, LeBron). Basketball has the kind of high profile athletes to sell a…

I’m glad skating has not allowed backflips for at least long as I remember (so pre-Surya like Bruce from MO said). If not for that, I bet there would be a not insignificant number of skaters with horrific neck injuries and concussions from backflips gone wrong. You can wreck a knee or ankle botching a regular jump as…

I loved watching her. She was different and exciting because she was powerful and unpredictable, but I agree with you that she wasn’t robbed when she got that silver. Her outburst and refusal to go to the podium afterwards was not great either. I do wonder what she could have done with a real coach though. Her PE…

Dvora, you are my favorite writer across the various previously known as Gawker Media platforms. I haven’t followed figure skating or gymnastics since I was a kid, but your articles have made me feel surprisingly invested in both sports again. You make things accessible, exciting, and you get a whole lot of technical…

Seconding the recommendation on the Heaven’s Gate podcast and You Must Remember This. Sword and Scale has done a few good multi-part ones though it is usually episodic and not serial. Casefile True Crime also has some good multi-episode crimes.

Yeah, this attempted murder sounds more like an Ok Go! video than anything that had a chance of actually killing anyone. I’m not understanding the weird lipstick drawing thing either. It seems like he left multiple versions of “don’t open this door” signs for her. Either so much traumatic brain injury or so much meth…

I am so happy that we are not the only people who do this. The kids and I relocate spiders to our utility room. We call them the “guards” because (knock on wood) we have never in 8 years had any yucky bugs in the house. No roaches or silverfish. Just the spiders and once in a blue moon a house centipede. I am pretty…

Brag away, that’s amazing. I hope your immune system gets back to itself in 2018 and you have a happy and healthy year of not caring at all how old you are, cause seriously, your mom may be projecting a bit (a lot) with the age hangup.

I love it! And I am jealous because I have wanted an aluminum tree since I was a little kid and then was mortified to find out that my parents got rid of an apparently mint-condition one from the early 70s (they retired it before I was born so I didn’t know it existed) because “who would want that, it’s so dated?” Me!…

That speaks volumes. Dogs KNOW. I have now come around from having no opinion on Robert Pattinson to having a positive one. Please thank your dog for me. Off to watch Goblet of Fire for the meet cute.

Does anyone with knowledge of the law want to chime in about what this woman’s legal options are in going after these idiots? Like they seem to have put in writing that they smeared her reputation AND directly prevented her from pursuing business opportunities. That’s defamation of some legally actionable type, right?…

I so wish Kara was still around to rule on whether this is shade from the Queen or not. I mean this seems like shade, no? It’s an epic burn born from not doing something.

Then she could rule on this dreadful excuse for a human being’s attempt at shade as not shade at all but just grotesque overt racism.

I have never seen this show, but is this a common thing that people go wedding dress shopping with their dad? That seems... odd to me.

That’s my thought too. The settlement appears to have happened pre-tenure. It’s a religious school and I would guess there is something in the contracts and in tenure review related to representing the school well (as in not admitting to raping children at your previous place of employment) that they could have just…

Thank you both for this piece. This was a really compelling and necessary interview.

The part about Edna Buchanan and not growing callouses on your heart really resonated with me. I used to work as a sex crimes investigator in a crimes against children unit. I interviewed hundreds of kids and you do get jaded in the…

That was ridiculous. She made it look effortless and really none of those women had a chance after that start.

Are those the official USA Speed Skating uniforms? Cause if so, geez Under Armour, at least pretend to care about this sport and give them something that doesn’t look like a low end generic wetsuit.

The district is an almost entirely white suburb of Louisville that went 72% for Trump in the last election. The Democrat he replaced was the widow of a former rep who was killed while in office who was elected back when we had a Southern Democrat in the White House. This horrible excuse for a human being beat the…

They would have been doing that either way. Already were, actually - check the comments on the early articles on the KyCIR piece. Again, “Lying whore” seems arguably less traumatizing than “murdering whore” to me. The first one is something you sadly expect when you report a public figure for a sex crime, the latter,…

Yep, it’s a really twisted way to try to control the narrative. My guess is in his head this is like a really epic exit stage right that allows his to be the martyr for the cause and a tragic hero. He wants his weirdo followers to come for this girl. It’s awful, but it looks like a more extreme and final version of…

Yes, but “liar” is arguably less horrible to have people screaming at you every time you leave the house than “murderer.” I just feel so sad for her. I don’t believe for a second that wounding this girl wasn’t one of the motivators for the suicide. He took zero responsibility here. This wasn’t about guilt, it was…