I feel like most of the people (ok, mostly men) I know who talk about un-entertaining women’s sports always use WNBA as their example. Or something like rhythmic gymnastics. I guess dunking is a prereq for “entertaining” for some people.

But I think generally the Olympics are great for women’s sports, because hockey,…

She was insane. I had multiple “Nooooo!” outbursts that turned into “oh my god, how did she save that?” Rooney was a badass tonight and goalies can play for ages. She could get better and be around another 4 Olympics. I’m looking forward to the rematch of these teams in 4 years.

It’s not even teachers accidentally killing students that worries me. I taught 7th grade for a while. I am also fairly comfortable around guns (grew up in the sticks where guns were ubiquitous and shooting stuff for food or fun was normal and part of my childhood). No way in hell would I want a gun in a classroom. I…

Yeah, that got me when I watched it. I never played my sport at nearly as high a level as Lindsey Vonn and I remember vividly how totally shitty I felt after I broke my back and it really hit me that I wasn’t going to be able to play again (which was not at the moment I found out about my injury, it was much later…

Yes, I think it is about the trying and the hard work and the pain and the struggle and the respect for the sport. That was on display with the cross country guys in a way that felt real and visceral for people, including the gold medalist who was right there cheering them on. Swaney’s story isn’t about hard work.…

Yes, that was back in her attempting to buy her way onto the Venezuelan team days. That didn’t work out so she decided she was Hungarian and proceeded to buy entries into underattended events so she could buy enough points to qualify. And in 5 years she apparently managed to learn how to get down the pipe at the speed…

Valid point. They could have been more NBC-ish and hired someone who never played the sport. Like Tiger Woods. He dated Lindsay Vonn. That probably meets the criteria for NBC since they continue to hire Al Trautwig for sports he still knows nothing about.

Because he was actually from Tonga and sunk some blood, sweat and tears into training for a grueling sport instead of buying an Olympic berth for a country he doesn’t speak the language of and never lived in so he would have an interesting selfie to post on instagram?

Many of the winter sports either train via roller or qualify that way and it will probably get more common since we’re running out of naturally snowy and icy places for people to train and manmade snow is awful in terms of wasting energy. The cross country guy for the US (who is competitive) trains in-line because he…

Yeah, there’s something eerily Rachel Dolezal-ish about this in that I’m angered by it but something also seems seriously off. Like what’s the end game here? It’s hard to imagine she makes money off of this charade - she had to pay to go to all these competitions. I’m also surprised Hungary didn’t just say no to this…

That’s a shame. You missed his spiel about how this one woman can’t ski anymore because she got married and that when she sucks on this run, blame her husband. Then after the break they made him apologize on air. It was almost worth my couple of hours of hating Bode’s commentary to witness NBC forcing him to issue a…

Mine did too. He left the room. He also farted, which might also be why he left the room but I’m gonna blame the fart on Fergie too.

They actually could (and might have, though it may have been Shiffrin and Veith’s runs they mashed up, but they definitely did at least one mash up during live coverage)- they keep doing the overlaid runs on NBC. It lets you see the differences in the line they took or form or how they hit a gate.

I couldn’t let that one go. I’m so tired of people getting on a soapbox about “welfare” and then proudly demonstrating complete ignorance about the programs and people they are ranting about. “Welfare fraud” is simply not a widespread problem. Now that almost everything is computerized it is tracked so we know how…

Yep, and she’ll stay only until the mental calculus says it is more financially profitable for her to split. That may be when/if he gets impeached, indicted. That may be when some provision in the prenup times out or becomes invalid for some reason or a lawyer tells her she could get the prenup thrown out and take…

Honestly, she’d probably be more humiliated if people thought she was still sleeping with him. I bet she doesn’t hate these stories at all. She gets to look like the victim. Other people are doing all the work for her eventual divorce case for free. People hear that she’s had a separate room forever and so she gets…

I’m going to go out on a limb and say you could take this position without the “Big Mamma” bit - it’s unkind and it is promoting a stereotype that is very far from the norm in terms of the families I work with who rely on SNAP and WIC. I can’t tell you how many of these ladies are single moms who are buying…

He’s amazing. Actually, pretty much all the kids from that school that I have seen interviewed (plus the kid who wrote the op-ed) have been incredibly impressive. The student journalist, David Hogg, gave one of the savviest media interviews I’ve ever seen, after interviewing classmates during the shooting to document…

OMG, that is evil. I’m so sorry that happened to you. Did they steal it out of your bag or out of one of the bins/trays?

I guess I do often wear hats outdoors but they are outdoorsy hats, not Hats! if you know what I mean. I love that you are rocking the hats regularly and with style. Do you wear them indoors ever or just outdoors? My other hat dilemma is bangs. I have bangs and so once hat is on, hat has to stay on or my hair will be a…