They should play Willie 25-30 minutes a game. See what he can do instead of wasting minutes on Matt Freaking Barnes. They know what they’ll get from Barnes.

So unfair. Locker-room stuff. Happened way back in August. He’s grown so much since then.

Hey, I hate Simmons as much as the next Deadspin reader, and I love Tom Ley, but I find it amazing you guys posted this. DEADSPIN is wondering why a sports/pop culture/tech website is publishing an at best questionably accurate, poorly argued political piece? Really, Deadspin?

If he’s convicted even of the public intoxication charge he’ll likely lose his scholarship. In 1998, after a DUI accident killed football players, UK’s athletic department enacted a zero-tolerance alcohol and drug policy. Several basketball players have had scholarships revoked for the same reason.

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Waiting for Pheidippides to create a Kinja account so he can tell this guy to shut the fuck up.

I know it’s mathematically impossible for odds to exceed 100%, but I just ran the numbers and found there’s a 1,000% chance that this ball disappears, the Cubs lose four straight, and we refer to the incident as something like “the ball jinx” for the next 100 years.