Former coliseum management here.
Former coliseum management here.
No pictures. That’s what the biggest name in boxing, poised for one of the signature fights of his career, says over…
I saw her wrestle an intergender indie match teamed with Cesaro against Manami Toyota and Mike Quackenbush. It was damn good.
BAYLEY’S GONNA HUG YOU!!
It was a dumb tweet.
Well if the Orioles can just hurry up and win the World Series by tonight, maybe the riots will be confused for the “excusable” kind.
Okay, their Hawkeye analog (Zuchinn-eye) is the best. “I do stuff. I’m super cool.”
I get this is the anti-Simmons site, gotta set up your tent somewhere, but why qualify it? Simmons two best accomplishments, 30 for 30 and Grantland, both reveal a guy who finds people who are talented and empowers them to do great work.
Jason Whitlock once stole a rib right off my plate at a BBQ restaurant.
Most amazing thing in the Playbook: that he thinks Le Batard gave Deadspin his vote because he was protesting the fact that there might be players in the Baseball Hall of Fame who used steroids
What seems weird about it to me is him flattening the universe to put Jordan and Ali on the same continuum. It’s not that one or the other of them is/was “bigger” than the other; they’re famous and culturally significant in completely different ways. The scale on which Ali is “bigger” than Jordan…
It’s the difference between hiring people whose work you enjoy and letting them do that kind of work, and hiring people expecting them to do exactly the work you want them to do.
Grantland succeeds because I think Simmons, despite his ego, knows at least enough to give other people the space to do their own things. I think Vox would be an interesting example to bring in, just based on the sheer number of retractions they have to publish.
When Whitlock wrote that tripe regarding SAE, I did a Facebook post ridiculing him for once again taking black people to task for an issue that in no way was because of black people. He FOUND IT and stated that he was sorry that I “Misrepresented his column”. I responded that the only way I could have misrepresented…