People get mad at the Sixers because they tanked for multiple years. Now people are mad at teams who are not tanking. Apparently people just get mad at every team if they’re not Golden State.

“Shapo will be seeing plenty of Karlovic, and John Isner, and Milos Raonic in the years to come.” Karlovic is already 38. I’m not convinced Shapovalov will be seeing a lot of him in the years to come.

“I would believe that this was done on a dare.” This suggests that you think Fergie’s musical instincts are actually better than this? Does she have any track record as an arranger? This is probably just a reflection of her musical sensibilities — kinda lame, kinda cheesy, not really all that good. I don’t know why…

This isn’t Kerr’s first experience with feeling superfluous. When he sat out with back issues, his assistant coach, Luke Walton, led the team to a lengthy undefeated streak. So stepping back for a single game is trivial in comparison.

The alternative to “sports radio” is not “listening to players and coaches.” The alternative is talking to friends and acquaintances face-to-face, as opposed to being broadcast as an anonymous disembodied voice on the public airwaves.

I don’t think Boston is the big problem. I think Sports Radio in general is the culprit. The entire industry is modeled on artificial conflict and outrage to get listeners. It’s always going to be odious at its core, no matter what city it originates from.

I haven’t been following this case closely. Can someone explain why the shooter was set free by the police after confessing?

I have no idea why you are pretending that you don’t know how to use Google or find relevant articles, but it’s not that hard: http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/nassar-surrounded-adults-enabled-predatory-behavior/story?id=52387364

There are 347 Div 1 basketball teams, there are 13 scholarships on each team, there are 4,511 players. Only one of them is drafted first. 1 divided by 4,511 is 2 thousandths of a percent.

Kemba Walker is 27 years old and has averaged 21.8 ppg 5.7 apg in 39 game this year, 23.2 ppg 5.5 apg in 79 games last year, and 20.9 ppg 5.2 apg in 81 games the year before that. In scontrast, Markelle Fultz has played 4 games, and looks like he might not be able to shoot a basketball. Walker once scored 52 points…

Jaylen Brown offers up a wide-ranging interview that proves you should not judge a book by its cover. And then the first thing you do is judge a book by its cover. Nice job!

I don’t know why the press is going out of its way to protect the guy’s anonymity. His name is Jonathan Katz. Sounds like he’s a pretty terrible human being.

Then don’t watch the show. It’s really not that difficult.

Pretty sure we’re not gonna have a Packers Patriots AFC games since A) The Packers did not make the playoffs, and B) They are not in the AFC.

How does a team unilaterally decide to change its translation? Language doesn’t work that way, right?

Whoosh. That one went right over your head.

Further developments suggest that she is far from the best sports mom in the game. http://www.nj.com/giants/index.ssf/2017/12/family_strife_at_the_root_of_giants_cb_eli_apples.html

The definition of a holiday is a day you don’t have to work. Kyrie Irving is a professional basketball players, and he has to work on Christmas. For Kyrie, Christmas is not a holiday.

And the Katherine Heigl incident, capture on film. https://www.avclub.com/heres-steven-seagal-groping-a-16-year-old-katherine-hei-1819923832

The attached video does a poor job of showing the cool play design and the backwards lateral against the flow that allowed the lineman to score, which is too bad because it’s really the best part of the highlight.