You say this, but a friend told me his MAGA-happy dad’s side of the family wouldn’t let anyone watch football on Thanksgiving at their house because DURRRR DEY DON’T RESPECT MURICA DURRR.

I would say parents and society in general need to think critically about the value of toughness in society. I don’t mean rushing to hold your kid if they fall and scrape their knee. That’s a low-risk, high-reward learning experience. It’s fair to let your kids do things that lead to problems that either the body…

But, you see, then Mr. Simmons had a daughter and became a feminist. And that was the day we finally achieved complete gender equality.

Is it possible you have a data point wrong? The average six-footer has a standing reach of around eight feet. If you’re jumping another three feet in their air, you’re dunking two-handed with ease.

And also, young dudes are OBSESSED with dunking. Like I said, I’m 5'10", didn’t play organized basketball, wasn’t really a very good jumper, and even I was trying to touch the rim every time I stepped into a gym.

Are you ... purposely being dense?

Because I’m a dweeb, I did some math.

I’ve loved his schtick since the KSK days, but Laura’s correct with that Colbert/Fox analogy. We have to draw the line somewhere, and it’s probably long past time we stopped trying to separate him from Barstool.

It’s as if Stephen Colbert, to use an existing comparison, had taken his “Stephen Colbert” character to Fox News and enjoyed glowing press for doing satire at the network.

Never? Oh Jesus, man. I’m 5'10", a shitty athlete, and even I could touch rim in high school.

it’s the perfect nickname. Ticks are also scrappy, annoying and heavily related to Bill Simmons.

But they were so much better than the ‘Liers tonight!

on the contrary, let us never cease to refer to this franchise as the ‘tics.

Ehhh. Even raised with humans wild canids are still going to be wild. A hand raised coyote would probably be fine until it reached maturity when it would probably start to display more aggressive behaviour. Even if it didn’t with the people that raised it I sure as hell wouldn’t trust one around other animals or…

A buddy of mine had to do some stupid shit when he was rushing his frat, but it wasn’t horrifically traumatic or anything, and he points to it as how he met the woman he ended up marrying

Without Kyrie Irving, the thinking went, they were screwed when they ran up against an elite defense like Philly’s in the playoffs.

Man, this deserves a montage set to an ‘80s rock anthem.

I blame the parents for letting their kids be so into video games. When I become a parent, I’m sure I’ll end up buying my kids a console, but they won’t be able to play it for more than an hour at a time and they’ll be forced to be active in all kinds of sports! And while they’re outside playing or at practice, I will…

Might his issue have been that the volleyball coach couldn’t find any bland platitude to say about Rosen? Like, that he couldn’t even come up with “Oh, he’s a great guy, a leader of men, really like what he’s done for the program, and by the way his girlfriend is over there if you want any more detail.”

I think it was the “Aaaa, you should ask his girlfriend” at the beginning that was weird. As in the coach knew something, or had a negative opinion of Rosen, but didn’t feel it was his place to talk about it. I think a normal reaction someone expects when they ask about a person is “Oh, Josh? Yeah he’s a good kid” or…