he could be tired. carrying an offense probably gets pretty hard at the end of a game, right? 

Anita Hill. F this guy. 

Oversized balls are very common tools for developing shooting form. They aren’t weighted differently the regular balls.

Oversized balls are common training tools.

Why are they guarding him close? Just sag off and turn him into a jump shooter...

How about we stop making fun of people for their appearance? Like, you know, what we teach 3rd graders?

Distance isn’t specified, but I’m guessing the start is within 500 yards - in which case you have to take the hunter right? Or else he’ll shoot you?

“if every single potential one-and-done just didn’t go to college—that’d be a huge financial hit for the NCAA”

Two common denominators: athletes...and the author?

You’re misunderstanding what control variables were used - they’re in the paper if you’re curious.

Um, yes, saying something ‘helps’ signifies that there is a causal relationship. The authors say ‘physical touch would predict increases in both individual and group performance’. That’s causal.

This is awful research. There is a *correlation* between touching and winning, even after controlling for other variables, but this study DOES NOT demonstrate touching *causes* winning. The authors should have made this explicitly clear, but they did not.

newton’s third law, right? if the push was significant, it would have also pushed the other player somewhat backwards... it did not.

it’s not quite that simple - he’s got a legacy and endorsements to consider as well. 18 months sitting the bench at man u probably doesn’t help, but being the star at everton might

as far as i understand, ‘retirement’ is a face-saving way of accepting that you’re not going to get a call in the future.

Making a mockery of the phrase ‘landing punches’

That argument is much more convincing than that from the article

this entire article is frustratingly naive: what matters is the ratio between a player’s skill and that player’s cost. Sure, he’s good, but how many good players could United have acquired had they taken that money elsewhere? It’s a reasonable complaint.  

Yep.

how is that not a foul - you could commit murder at the end of an NBA game and have a 50/50 chance of hearing a whistle