The point isn't that players don't go on hot streaks. They clearly do. The point is that during their streak they aren't actually any more likely to sink the next free throw than when they aren't in the streak. This apparently comes out nicely in the stats, so I think you have to be a bit more convincing than "Well,…

Can you please provide scientific evidence of players going on hot streaks?

About seven years ago I was diagnosed with ovarian cancer. I was lucky in that it was fairly isolated so they just chopped that sucker out, but I was devastated by the treatments. Just.. so so sick. An old friend of mine (we'd shared a really shitty apt in NYC in my early 20s and during this time she and I had had a…

I've told this story before here. But.

"Sorcia, I'm in love with your best friend [a dude with a hilariously ridiculous name that I cannot post here]. We're moving to Virginia and I hope you'll be happy for us."

I was seeing one of my longtime best guy friends (whom I'd kissed a couple times over the course of our friendship, but had just started, like, being with in any more significant capacity). He told me that he loved me quickly. The whole thing was very intense. I'd been hearing rumors from mutual friends that he was…

Someone on Jez (an ungrayed commenter, even!) once explained to me that she refuses to teach Lolita to her senior high school students because it's such a gross and blatant promotion of pedophilia. This was an English lit teacher. Her poor students—I can't imagine learning the fundamentals of literature from someone…

No way this was a bad call. I know Deadspin loves an underdog but seriously this is ridiculous. If he doesn't touch that ball, then it would have grazed the rim, and its trajectory would have been changed. You HAVE to let the ball touch the rim of the basket before you can grab it. "Come the fuck on" is not a…

Ley, you're way out of your element on this one, especially with the whole "look how far away the official is!" bit. That's the trail official, and goaltending/basket interference is his call. The baseline (lead) official is watching for contact near the basket and can't see through the backboard padding (leads…

What's wrong Tom? Had them going deep in your bracket?

Exactly what I came here to say. "Absolutely extraordinary?" Absolutely not. That's relatively tame bullshit, actually.

18 innocent women on vacation. Sentenced to prison for innocent pictures of the bottom half of their boobs. Sent to Thailand's most notorious jail, full of equally nubile of selfie taking prison. Will they band together and fight for (boob) freedom? Or will their passions overtake them on...

Let's see...the country where you can get a 10 year old for sex is worried about underboobs. Way to prioritize Thialand.

Oh please. Every suburban Soccer mom I know knows The Blueprint off by heart. It was probably the soundtrack for the alcohol poisoning they got at a DKE kegger.

Men are so fucking basic.

My brother is a Marine and he once admitted without batting an eye that "you have to be a little screwed up, a little fucked in the head to want to be infantry...but most of us do." His Marine buddy agreed without hesitation.

but I do think it poses an interesting question of whether there are some people, regardless of gender, who are better cut out for this line of work than others.

Just one. Not that he doesn't have a slimey vibe about him, but I've slept with slimier guys than that with very little weight on my soul.

I think this is in large part due to the fact that successful women have had to internalize the workplace values set by men

My point is that it's not JUST a race issue, since other white players are also affected by the same thing. Do you have reading comprehension issues or are you just that obtuse? Because if it were just a race issue, then Lindsay Davenport should have been a fucking sex symbol.