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I can’t believe it would boil down to pure semantics. Gambling is gambling—or, sorry, in horse-racing parlance, wagering.

From the InTouch article:

If you read this article as anything other than sympathetic to Simmons for getting royally fucked over by ESPN, I think you’re bringing your own biases to it rather than spotting ours.

Tom, You totally aren’t in on the joke.

This really is ridiculous. Fine ‘em, dock ‘em a 3rd rounder and move on. Comparing this with Armstrong, Bonds and Arod is a hyperbolic as you can get.

Brady was just taking some advice from one the greats:

Shut up

Thank you for your call, Tommy from Quincy!

For the love of all things holy, Tom, get your people burners!

I can’t really muster any level of care about this anymore.

Here’s why they did it. Because they can and there will be absolutely NO REPERCUSSION to their bottom line. None. Nata. Zip. Zilch.

The notion of a “scoop” is a wonderfully antiquated idea. When folks were walking around with a dime in their pocket and trying to decide between the Post-Register and the Daily Times, then yeah, it might matter who had the latest and greatest news. But you know what? It’s 2015. I can ingest news from dozens of…

There was a reason to lie about the free stuff at the time. If he accepted free food, then the NCAA could have fucked up his season. And it’s not a stretch that the grocery store employees would lie to keep him playing football each Saturday.

You’re suggesting that someone chastised you for cheering about a home run? Have you ever actually been to a baseball game or are you confusing it with a tennis match you once saw on TV?

Wait. Are you saying attending a Redskins football game at RFK isn't terrible?

I’m a black man in my thirties and my favorite sport is baseball, and that can be an incredibly lonely experience. Like Rock, I’m also a Mets fan, and I became a National League fan in part for the same reason he did (his father, like mine, hated the AL because it somehow managed to be even more racist than the NL).

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The 800 was my race back when I was still young and fast. I always found the splits unimportant to my final time. A 55 second first lap meant a 63 second lap, 56 meant 62, 57-61, etc. I even ran a few negative splits (60-58). The final time wouldn't change, but HOLY SHIT did the pain change. Run negative splits…