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?

I dunno...this isn’t about unpopular posts or taste. It’s about being careful because, for at least a few of these stories, the writers/editors weren’t careful and now the company is getting its ass sued.

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.