Dear Tony,

Republican here. Yes, his old shit was funny. And I feel it’s right to defend famous millionaires because it doesn’t matter what you’re worth, it matters if you are in the right. The problem here is that a person you idolize doesn’t agree with your world view. Political correctness is out of control and destroying…

How many correct calls must we endure before this horror is banished to hell, and we can go back to complaining about refs missing all the calls before being stalked and killed by deranged passionate fans after the game, like the soccer I remember?

Wait. A well researched and well written article about soccer that’s also concise? I’m very confused.

The soccer comments are dickish because Billy has been told the same complaints about his writing over and over and over for years - enough with the ridiculous paragraph-long run-on sentences, the use of fourteen paragraphs to make an incredibly banal point that could have been made in two sentences, the constant…

Rhode Island is the Virginia Beach of New England 

Finally, an expert opinion I can trust.

While I’m not sold on Neymar being a top 3 player in the world, I’m pretty confident Neymar easily cracks both lineups, without a change of formation. Mane and Sterling are both great, but I would have Neymar starting ahead of both of them at LW.

Last guy could have named his cat Kitty Purry, and if nothing else, he would have dominated the star count at Jezebel’s “Saturday Night Social” thread.

If I’m understanding the chain of events correctly, the NFL tightened up its helmet rules before last season, and there were two major changes that are pertinent here: certain models were banned, and ANY helmet over 10 years old was banned. Everybody got a grace period to play a year with their old helmet, even if it…

No, it’s not. But that shift already happened with the introduction of slow motion reply, offside freeze frames, etc. All VAR does in cases such as over the weekend, or last year when Sterling was offside, is align the ontological frame of the officiating decisions with the ontological frame through which the sport…

It’s the same as last week, when VAR disallowed a gorgeous Man City goal because it decided that Raheem Sterling’s shoulder was offside by a couple centimeters.

1955 sauce is roughly 34.3 times better than Heinz 57.

*kneehilist

Hey America I love you but your drinking laws are stupider than hell, if you can sign up for the military to die for your country at 18 (17 with parental consent!) you should be able to have a beer.

I am a very happy subscriber, The Athletic content is outstanding. I hope they do manage to breakthrough.

Barry is great! He’s like the worst guy I know!

Friends and I were talking about this the other day: is there anyone on earth who can throw 100 who is not in organized baseball (or was recently in organized baseball)? Maybe the odd javelin thrower or cricketer or NFL quarterback? 

Official request to Deadspin staff to stop referring to Tebow as our messiah and transfer that language to our True Lord and Savior Christian Pulisic.