To be more accurate, she is stating that her ancestor was not a Puritan and stood up to the Puritan uptight, racist, authoritarian BS. Good for that old dead guy.

There are those within the system who have a vested interest in maintaining the system. Namely the coaches and administrators. Their extraordinary salaries are directly inflated by the nearly free and well below market labor.

I’m as big of a Melo basher as you will find. He has a specific skill which is being high usage. He doesn’t do anything really well except take shots. That isn’t entirely a knock as it does take some skill to shoot with volume, but frankly it is a useless skill if you want your team win. It was effective with Syracuse…

Clearly too short for the NBA.

Juve is always scary. Buffon and Chiellini can hold strong against anyone. Dybala and Higuain up top are always scary.

Best outright team in NBA history? Maybe, maybe not. Best team relative to the other top teams of their own era? Yes, that I would say is the case. Maybe Houston will make them sweat. Obviously they would be at significant risk if the Warriors lost Steph, but even then the Warriors would still have a small advantage.…

Yours definitely has a certain vomit inducing je ne sais quoi.

They may not have blown it, whatever that even means, but they definitely walked into the Juve trap. As was described by a poster above Juve made some adjustments that increased their ability to link up to Dybala and Higuain on the counter.

I’ll one up you in coolness. I was also in high school at that time and my parents went to see it. My mom loved it so much she implored me to see it. That kind of threw me for a loop, but I saw it a few weeks later and probably a 100 times since. My friends that went with me all loved it too. I’ve known very few…

Hot take: Neymar sucks

Further, the fact that the payments are pennies IS the problem and not a reason to “not give a shit”. The shoe companies are able to influence and likely induce athletes into signing endorsement and agency deals for pennies on the dollar. That is part of the fraud. Pre one and done, someone like LeBron would get paid…

There is a triangle of collusion to defraud the recruits. The shoe companies, coaches and agents are taking advantage of the NCAA’s amateurism and the NBA’s one and done rule to defraud these athletes. The athletes are absolutely the victim of this fraud.

He also offered up the tidbit “running backs play their lines open” (paraphrasing). In other words, he was saying that great running backs make great offensive lines not the other way around. He was saying this about Ezekiel Elliott and the Cowboys o-line. Of course, just two years prior with the same o-line and…

By “they” this person really means “I”.

Ms. Moskovitz, please know that you are having a positive impact through your work. Your coverage of crime and specifically sexual assault has been exceptional. I don’t go to Deadspin.com specifically for it, but whenever I see your byline I click and feel enlightened.

Sadly for Spurs fans, Kane AND Pochettino will be in Madrid next year.

Agreed. I also think it has become worse in the past 10-15 years as cars have become absurdly fast. Yes, cars are safer, but I don’t believe they are appreciably safer in typical racing incidents. The engineers design for incidents that are likely to occur on streets and highways.

Olympic alpine skiing is mainly of interest to skiers from the US because the general public in the US doesn’t pay attention to World Cup skiing. An Olympic gold for an American means they will have mass marketing appeal in the US and some big paychecks. To the European skiers, although they want to win in the…

The Celts are the same as the 13/14 Pacers. Great defensively with a top defensive coach. Came out of the gates on fire with playoff intensity. By mid season they started to regress a little. Eventually LeBron’s Heat caught the Pacers and were simply too much. The same will happen with the Celts.

Hopefully this will be a rebuke of the US Soccer as a tool for growing MLS. I want to see MLS succeed and grow, but it should not be the job of US Soccer to ensure its success. US Soccer should work to grow US soccer talent from youth to the world level for both men and women.