Anyone who signs a 7 year, $100 million dollar contract without a whole team of attorneys there to advise them is a fool.

We had a few foreigners on my college team. They were affectionately referred to as "covered wagons."

So you spent your time with James in this story alternately comparing yourself to Norman Mailer (quite literally, as a matter of fact), and exploring your own core of novelistic self-flagellation. Then you conclude with the statement that James has brought his high school troupe with him, and is in fact not a…

There is indeed a $/bbl threshold where the industry decides to focus primarily on existing production (vs. completing new fields) on one side and on completing new fields on the other side. That number is somewhat dynamic, but the benchmark West Texas Intermediate price has been hovering in the general vicinity for a…

Not really. DeBeers is basically a monopoly and is able to manipulate prices. BP doesn't have much incentive to publish incomplete data. This is basically so everyone can wrap their head around what's known. And the 53 year number is really just to put reserve numbers in some sort of context.

ok quick education for everyone out there. In easy terms "Proved reserves" mean an oil company has the acreage, and has drilled sufficient well in the acreage to know that yes we we know we have about x much down here and it is economic to drill and produce. You could have equally as much oil/gas in another formation…

You have to laugh at a guy who tries to be all "unique" and "different," yet decides to commit murder in Chicago on 4th of July weekend.

Good christ no.

Don't get the alarm; doesn't this mean he can be trying to restructure his deal?

I had a business and it had very expensive equipment I took good care of and was proud of. So would you cheer people burning it up or running around setting million dollar construction equipment on fire because the owners had pictures taken with their equipment? I think you have a flashy computer, can I burn it…

If you're serious, get on < www.killthecan.org > if you're not already and follow the program. It works.

Sounds like about where I was at when I quit. You can do it.

You forgot High School football.

"Totes"? Get off my lawn!

I think GM's production is worth questioning and talking about, definitely.

You work for Deadspin. That shit's your bread and butter...

this comment is all sorts of terrible

I don't understand people who claim to value freedom of speech, but who want to silence others' (and who use their own freedom to do it.) That's you.

Really? The ultra-conservative religious institution was not a good choice for an openly gay athlete? Color me fucking shocked.