I think this is at least as much a factor of an 82 game season and a small number of players on the court as it is about talent distribution.

I have no interest in parity, though.

Is anybody else tickled by the idea that Scaramucci was sufficiently boy-scoutish that he thought in order to take a job in the administration he’d have to sell his business? Did he not pay attention to the man he was helping elect?

(1) There’s the salary cap and the max contract, and I often see them distinguished when discussing this issue. Personally I think that if the league is going to have a salary cap (which I think it shouldn’t) it’s healthier for also having the max contracts, but there are a lot of people who think the NBA should ditch…

I think Zeppelin is great.

I saw someone on Youtube ID that guy as Nick Best, an American competitor. I don’t think it’s that rare for people to cheer each other on like this in these competitions - maybe the ones who are in the thick of vying for the title are a little more standoffish, but otherwise they just seem to be rooting for cool shit…

Since I see multiple comments trending in this direction, here’s your regular reminder:

I agree that he didn’t appear to reverse direction on the press before recovering, he just stopped for a second. Thanks to GoT exposure, sometimes I see Hafthor getting credit for stuff he hasn’t done yet, and the 1% of my attention that goes to strongman awareness roots for Brian Shaw, but all these dudes mostly seem…

Ben Simmons is guaranteed $20 million over five years, I think.

Deming is a very good essayist, not only on boxing (though yes, including on boxing). I noticed the names of the editors but not her byline, and a couple of paragraphs in I thought “huh, this seems right up Sarah Deming’s alley,” then realized it was her when I got to the aside about donating a kidney.

How about:

Yeah. I’m actually not that interested in this period - I like early medieval stuff, and unfortunately there’s very little evidence for how people fought back then - but there are surviving fencing treatises from this time that walk through strategies for using a sword against both armored and unarmored opponents. A…

I was scrolling down to say this. (I think it’s funny that, of all the serious knowledge of medieval culture that went into George RR Martin’s work on ASOIAF, he multiple times has people shun plate armor for something “lighter” to help them move more freely, like he’s reading off a D&D stat sheet.) At its highest…

I have a shockingly high tolerance for Simmons style commentary from the man himself, though I think he was terrible on TV; coming from others it’s a harder sell. Golic didn’t make a strong impression on me one way or the other - here’s a big ex NFL guy, might be interesting, might not, whatever - but something about…

Based 100% on seeing their faces in motion on the TV at the gym with no sound, plus one of their subway ads, I feel like I’d like Golic better.

I assume he means something like “there’s no team in Missoula”.

I figure blowhards and fuckups are distributed more or less evenly throughout the population, so in any family of a given size, you’re likely to have at least one such uncle. Unless he’s everybody else’s uncle, which means he’s actually your dad.

I was scrolling down to say something like “what kind of tough-talking moron thinks his job in the crew is to sucker punch the dude your man just told they were cool?”, but of course it’s his uncle. That’s just straight out of central casting right there. You just know that’s the uncle everyone else in the family…

I’m not sure the underlying causes of postpartum depression, specifically, are well understood enough to be able to say “THIS woman has postpartum depression, THAT woman is having anxiety attacks in the wake of having a child.”

Deadspin’s basketball coverage is a mix of multiple voices with multiple viewpoints, but I find it amusing to average them out, unfairly, into a single voice and boil down its principles: