Federer has won 5 grand slams and two Olympic medals within the last 7 years — and he has a pretty decent shot to add a sixth slam tomorrow. If Federer’s entire career were comprised of the last seven years, it would stand, by itself, as a Stefan-Edberg-tier pro tennis career. (Serena, of course, is, like Federer, one…

No surprise but I agree with the shrugging person. I think TayTayTruther is way off the mark here. Yes, many haters make veiled and not-so-veiled racist remarks about how Serena looks. But that doesn’t mean this story is doing it. The article simply describes Serena as one of the strongest players in women’s tennis.…

I disagree. I think it is an absolutely important piece of cultural analysis that lays bare the assumptions that drive much of society and, from what I can tell, especially the “ladylike” sport of professional tennis. I think they do an admirable job of laying bare the contradictions at the heart of this mess. They…

Yeah, I feel like people completely missed the point of this story (or just didn’t read it). Maybe if the post quoted the paragraph that followed the one describing (accurately! and admiringly!) Serena’s physique, they’d get it:

#humblebrag

*cough cough humblebrag cough*

I dont think that many people hate her.

I have absolutely no problem with the Times in this story. What they have done is pierce the very ugly, racist veil and allowed us all to see the kinds of assumptions that have shaped women’s tennis as a sport. My take is that they are reporting it “straight” and allowing people to fucking bury themselves when they…

Greg is a writer at Deadspin.

Ezra Koenig, Bronson Koenig confuses.

As an American sports fan I have always enjoyed discussing “what would happen if we only played soccer?” invariably it becomes taking athletes from other sports and trying to build a side. However, this is not what would happen, children would grow up playing soccer and training for soccer. They would not try to bench…

I thought Fox News was all bimbos on the far right...

Here’s an example from the Patriots’ parade this year.

It’s likely these “floats” are just cars sponsored by the clubs, possibly with no real representation from the teams themselves (NYCFC invited their fans to ride along).

Chris Broussard is one of the worst NBA writers around, and Cuban is a consistently entertaining/intelligent team owner that is highly invested (both emotionally and financially) in the well-being of his team first and the league second.

Said as much yesterday and got my comment deleted, so I wouldn’t expect an answer.

God I hope someone is getting paid for all this promotion.

4,000 is the baby earth theory.

Please fire Berman. Please fire Berman. Please fire Berman.

When my baby began to die during my labor, within seven minutes of the fetal monitor indicating her distress, he had me stretched out on an operating table and delivered of a healthy newborn. Still, my friends kept talking about their beautiful experiences in birthing centers, in pools in their own living rooms, the…