I never had a problem giving someone notes from a class. Or even my outline. My outline wasn't magic, it was the process of making the outline that made me do well.

What your professors refer to as Shepardizing resulted in a lot of ratfucking. "Shepardizing" (or keyciting if you're using Westlaw) means looking to see if a case you want to cite has been overturned (or partially overturned, or affirmed, or discussed/cited). Citing bad law makes you look like an incompetent and can…

I got that, i misread the initial comment.

If he were smart, he would have painted himself in a relatively unflattering light. Then people would be thinking, "It sounds fishy, but who would lie about being so scared they shat their pants and cried?"

Lochte is 32. I know he's going to go for 2020, but this is probably his last hurrah.

"There is no requirement that athletes not piss on gas station doors or act like drunken sex-crazed lunatics"

More likely, Lochte has good handlers who are used to having to bail Lochte out of his messes.

But there were so many opportunities to defuse it.

Damn. I saw his interview with Bob Costas a few days ago (I was waiting for some track and field or volleyball event to start, didn't seek it out) and he seemed like a nice guy. What an asshole.

Not to mention, it's not like weed is performance-enhancing. Unless you're a competitive eater.

Sure but now every time we hear about Lochte in the future, this'll get a mention. And if this is his last Olympics (he's 32, so it may well be), quite an ignominious end.

I believe in swimming it's only the top 2 (at the Olympic Trials, which you have to qualify for, can't just show up) in each event. So even if you're really good, if you're third by one one hundredth of a second in your event, you better hope one of the two swimmers ahead of you slips on the deck and breaks a leg.

Yeah seriously. USA Swimming was never going to give the greatest swimmer of all time a perma-ban. He was (hell, still is) just too important to the sport, even with amazing younger swimmers like Missy Franklin and Ledecky. Honestly, six months' suspension was probably the LEAST they could get away with giving him and…