You must not have friends who do this for a living, or friends.

Hoover might be nuts, but he still wouldn't have signed Tony Romo to an extension.

He may be an insufferable prick, but he's also 100% correct. All of the major sports competitions (World Cups, Olympics, PanAm, etc.) now just serve to make the respective governing bodies shitloads of money and the actual "labor" gets very little if any compensation. The Olympics generate multiple billions in…

That's a black man in the US saying that Sam shouldn't have a chance because it wouldn't be smooth.

Parents Night is dreadful. Last year I was singled out by a teacher in a room full of judgmental parents because my 3rd grader, for the "art show", drew a picture of a chicken giving a horse a hand-job. Seriously. I have the photo prove it if you provide me with an e-mail to send it. When I got home, I feared…

Sorry, but as a woman I can say without feeling insecure: we are off-brand. Any woman that tries to argue that we can somehow match the men is making us all look crazy and unwilling to admit to physical differences. Surely you don't honestly think that we can ever match the product they put out, do you?

I'm a poorer person for having read that.

Typical of a racehorse owner, he feels no shame beating a dead horse.

If you're scoring at home, that's one infuriating horse death due to a scoreboard speaker, 412,326 due to greedy trainers injecting sore horses with nerve numbing drugs. The number of horses (and for that matter jockeys) who have died on the track when no ethical human being would have let them so much as gallop is…

i guess my perspective is that athletes coming out matters today, so that athletescoming out won't matter in the future.

Excellent piece Barry. Although, I'd like to offer my thoughts on a particular line: Coming out is now a stage-managed media event, scripted and choreographed in a way that ensures America receives only the most telegenic version of what at bottom is still a deeply personal act.

The point Athlete Alley and Taylor are missing is the coming out news belongs to the athlete coming out. Not the community, not the team, not the coach, not the advocacy groups. The news belongs to the athlete and no one else, ever.

agree. I know people who "opened" their relationships or started with that premise. Didn't really work. I'm sure it can work for some folks, just not most. Also, who the hell has time? Between work, hobbies, friends, and watching sports, who the hell has time to manage a separate fuck life? Unless you work in the same…

I'm probably going to get shredded up for typing this post, but I feel like there's probably others like me who had a similar experience this weekend - but maybe I'm the only one:

Where's the outrage over the NBA owner who supports homophobic causes?

False. That would mean people go to WNBA games.

I'm glad authorities are getting out in front of this heinous crime before they have a chance to more or less forget about it for a year until some pesky journalist comes around asking all kinds of questions and then we've got a full-blown shitstorm on our hands. Because that would really suck.

Dan Gilbert's statement simply read, "I PERSONALLY GUARANTEE THAT THE CLEVELAND CAVALIERS WILL WIN AN NBA CHAMPIONSHIP BEFORE THE SELF-TITLED FORMER 'CLIPPERS OWNER' WINS ONE!"

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