Dude was 21 in his last season before LeBron arrived. What other 21 year old has had serious accomplishments in the NBA? Maybe LeBron himself? Kyrie can still be a top 10 player at age 25 after being on a few dumpster fire teams before he could legally drink.

First off, the third best of anything all-time is pretty prestigious.

This is heavily wrong. First, Kyrie was the 3rd best 19 year old of all time, after LeBron and KG, according to VORP; second to T-Mac in BPM; third to the Brow and Dwight in WS/48 (for players who started > half the games). So, yes there is definitely some all time potential to invest in. Second off, Kyrie is two…

Good thing Tom Jackson retired from ESPN. They would have stone-walled him for sure.

I feel bad for Simona. She seems to be the most consistent person on the Women’s side for the past three years or so; playing every tournament, unsually making the QF at least. But man, she keeps getting wrecked when she is in the spotlight. She beats the other two top 10s in the French finals, only to lose to some…

If you thought HamNo’s selective blindness about the weakness of unions was bad before, wait until he’s actually blind!

The other Zverev is Mikhail a.k.a. Mischa. Alexander = Sascha is probably the least intuitive of all the unintuitive (to English-speakers) Russian diminutives.

This is the truth. Look at the pictures of that melee above. Firing a weapon into that crowd is basically a 50/50 shot at hitting either side. Bringing a bat makes you a partisan warrior and Clockwork Orangist. Bringing a weapon to that party with the intent to shoot it makes you a mass murderer. Even white…

Why the hatchet job on New Urbanism? You can attack it for being focused on suburbs and ignorant of diversity, but that is kind of the point. New Urbanism is more appealing to liberatarians or conservatives; people like me. So instead of panning it for what it doesn’t do, why don’t you focus on the good things it does…

This is the real story here. The East Coast of the US is the single best place in the world to build a high speed rail system; there are 50 million people and 4 of the world’s 100 biggest cities by GDP all in a 700 km straight line from each other. Nowhere else in the world has such big and rich cities lined up that.…

How is Singapore not a sovereign state?

To be fair, for most of the countries in Africa, ‘summer’ and ‘winter’ just mean wet and dry. So moving to summer means wet for the African countries north of the equator and dry for those south. And you can always host the tournament in Rwanda or Kenya or something where the weather doesn’t change all year.

So true. Deadspin’s finest journalism is written by other people, decades ago.

So I just looked up Gaia Scodellaro (the nun from that picture) who is from Naples. Turns out Mike Tirico wasn’t lying about being Italian!

I mean...its got Jerry Jones, what do you want?

The problem is the manning. The LCS was built bottom up with no crew. They have to build a new ship from scratch where they integrate 200 racks in the design (and don’t just stick extra crew in a conex box in the hangar bay, as is currently the case on LCS).

Seriously, until we can get our heads out of our asses with weapons procuremet (LCS, JSF, every other boondoggle since 2000), just buy some Alvaro de Bazan’s or Fridtjof Nansens.

A lot of America’s success in the Pacific theatre was due to the somewhat unexpected higher survivability of American ships. The Japanese were way ahead on carrier aircraft, Long Lance torpedoes, night fighting tactics and more at the beginning of the war. But American ships had this tendancy to not sink, which meant…

It is fantasy until it happens. It is just irresponsible to build ships that aren’t survivable; and survivability uses the same techniques whether it is against a big navy or small navy.

If you take a look at Wikipedia, you will note that the story was written by a Frenchman from oral sources he allegedly heard in Syria (from a Maronite Christian, no less) and that Aladdin himself is supposed to be Chinese, as is Badroulbadour, original name of Jasmine. So you could probably get away with casting…