a whole fucking lot of time

where did you even get that information in 2004? were Internet databases that robust yet?

EVERY single player???

Incidentally, tennis is one of the easier sports for athletes to cover up doping. I remember reading Andre Agassi’s biography, and all he had to do to escape punishment from a positive drug test the federation informed him of, was write a letter telling them he didn’t do it on purpose

I’m young and in the prime of my life but have to get up at 6:30AM every day to get ready for work. I can't exactly get to bed at 2 all the time unless I want to be a zombie

Just wondering, did he have anything to say about Greg Hardy?

My god, why couldn’t this have existed ten years ago

For me, this is the most baffling part of the whole piece:

counterpoint: I would turn off the TV picture and only keep the sound on just to listen to the Ray Hudson commentary

There are people out there who devote twice as much time to this small handful of sports games as you probably do to your entire gaming library. They are hardcore gamers, no question

I'm like GOD DAMMIT why did you jump to the left INTO the fireball

The way I do it, if I maybe lose a random soldier but am able to limp to the finish line, I’ll let it go, but if my super badass Colonel sniper gets one hit critical’d or I have three soldiers wipe within two turns, I’m loading that save up!

Man, old school Iceman looked like a bitch

I mean if he’s trying to train for the real life course, I can easily see the utility in trying to recreate the real life conditions as much as possible.

Don’t be dense. One very real aspect of the job of “serving and protecting” is taking out criminals who want to, or already have done harm to innocents. If a SWAT team gets called to a location where they’re told there’s an armed individual who is completely willing to (or already has) use violence to hurt or kill…

well, the setup and investment needed for such a thing seems quite a bit more involved than Mario Kart at the very least

THIS is why the “amateur” status of college athletes is the greatest con running. As a direct result of their work on the field, these athletes bring in dozens of millions, in a single year. And yet they’re supposed to be satisfied with the cost of tuition which is <0.1% of this profit figure

I really want to know more about this virtual golf simulator. Was it custom built for Tiger or is it commercially available? Just how advanced is it?

I'm guessing this is quite a bit more training focused than a mere video game, something akin to a flight simulator for pilots or something

Seems like a simple enough solution: leave the existing systems in place, but jack up his shoot-off-dribble and contested 3 point ratings past 99, or however high they’d have to be to compensate for Steph’s ability to break them