It’s more that he’s totally incapable of just pointing out that someone had a beastly game, someone has been on fire for the past month, etc., and leaving it at that. Or maybe adding a short bit of context beyond that of where it means the guy’s team stands in the league or how he’s dominating while the other…

Old-school Deadspin would have seen yesterday’s game and the takeaway would have been Troy Deeney flipping a massive double-bird to the entire Chelsea section of the crowd after his goal. New-school Deadspin just has Billy Haisley and his utter refusal to stop scraping the bottom of the barrel to conjure up individual…

Yeah he’s slow (and 31), so you know what you’re getting with him. Replacing him with Aubameyang = more potential upside. But still, looking at both transfers independently, I think it’s bad business to let Giroud go to a top-four league rival for that price.

Yeah, that’s a buried lede for sure. It seems like this article might have been pre-written last night. And I think 16 million is a bargain for Giroud—he’s a very well-rounded forward and, despite being tall French and devilishly handsome, seems to attack most games with a fairly British intensity and doggedness. In…

I think his technique is still a little leaden, but otherwise yeah—Klopp letting him run free as a turf-devouring workhorse is looking like pretty good man management. He definitely has more defensive savvy than I would have ever picked up on just from watching him at Arsenal. He will be (slash already is) a pretty…

I really want him to succeed because he seems like one of the only next-generation guys to offer anything ... y’know, different. He obviously has uncanny feel at the net, athleticism to burn and aggressive shotmaking but I hope he can combine that with a focus on training to the point where he develops the full…

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Sounds like Tom’s fencing was whitewashed by the whole neighborhood.

Yes, and I’m alright with that. An expressive, international lexicon for an expressive, international game. Olimpico, elastico, rabona, roulette, bicycle kick routine half-volley ... the list goes on.

Yeah, he really can do all the center-forward tasks pretty well. I’m most impressed by his aerial ability ... he doesn’t score a ton with his head (a product of Liverpool’s style more than anything), but any time he goes up for a challenge with a big center-half, he either wins it outright or gets at least 50%.…

I was at my aunt’s house in Yakima, Washington watching it live. My aunt was all but rolling around laughing after the replays, and then, being that I was the only one with a smartphone, she asked me to text my mom (far away, back on the East Coast) and ask “if she saw the ass-tackle!” It turns out that, in the…

Yo Pete, you’re dead wrong.

I’m pretty sure they double checked that the hinges could handle whatever g-forces the plane could produce.

He wasn’t entirely a novice; the 20-30 hours of flight time that’s been reported is referring to his time in type (i.e. in the Icon). He had a private pilot license for both single- and multi-engine and an instrument rating. I’m not sure anyone knows what his total hours were, but those ratings mean that he would have…

Some of the players also set aside time on the Asian swing to scoop up counterfeit jewelry and watches that they can give to all their friends back home at Christmastime.

The river crossings in the Sierra actually killed two (able-bodied) hikers this year.

Thanks for this. It’s well reported. My trust in her story ended at the part where no other hikers anywhere reported having seen her. As I’ve seen in a few other forums regarding this story: yes it’s impossible to have evidence for every single step, but if you really did it, it’s also impossible for there to be no…

God, this is painful to watch. (Your writing, not the video.)

Backgammon for free isn’t so bad, especially if you’re playing against someone who is highly competitive but you know they’re overmatched. Because of the high variance, they’re probably still going to get a game or two off you every now and then and it will give them hope—irrational, desperate hope—that maybe they…

His hands are also the best of all time. To my eyes, his legs are quite a bit stiffer and he hits from more compromised positions these days than he used to—on the stretch, backing up (look at that first picture ... not ideal)—but it doesn’t matter at all because he can still pop through the ball on either wing, dead…