DirecTV makes commercial skipping easy because they have a "jump forward 30 seconds" button - as soon as the picture fades to black, hit that thing 4 times and you're back to the game.

What is it about boxing that elicits such prose? It seems that the best sportswriting, past and present, usually involves the sweet science. Or maybe that, being fed a steady diet of Donald Sterling updates and random viral videos, Hamilton Nolan comes to us as palate cleanser and prime rib all at once.

Agreed. It's no more out of place than Pitbull at any time anywhere.

The guy in the next room, a young politician's son named Goodell, tried for an hour (unsuccessfully) to convince Ewing that the the men in the white hoods represented brotherhood and fraternity, and strength through community action and common goal-setting, and that the costume was unrelated to any other connotations…

I miss the old days, back before Twitter, when we just kind of assumed many pro athletes were stupid. Now we get a daily affirmation of that fact.