Depending on how “real” this street fight is, the greatest MMA/Boxing/whatever practitioner in the world is losing to the dude with a pistol and 5 hours range training.

I totally agree that the stakes are part of what make boxing writing compelling, and I think there are a couple of other factors that contribute:

Definitely. There’s also the seemingly larger reservoir of imagery a good writer can conjure up to describe the fight game, coupled with the mythology sports fans (or, maybe at this point, boxing fans) attach to the greats who have stepped into the ring.

A front loaded NFL contract that they had no intention of honoring? They must have thought the NIH was a player.

I’m partial to the story of when he was on the Mets and saw John Olerud wearing a helmet while playing first base and said “When I played in Toronto, there was a guy who played first base while wearing a helmet”. Olerud replied. “Rickey, that was me”

And if a larger share of respondents claimed they watched more NFL, the fact that NFL ratings were actually down last year is good enough reason to discard this survey as meaningless. (Self-reporters are notoriously unreliable, and good pollsters are much more concerned with measuring how people actually act than with…

America prefers its heroism symbolic above all else.

Glenn Greenwald says that focusing on the Russians’ involvement is ridiculous, and the people watching the video have no one to blame but themselves.

Glenn Greenwald just tweeted that Spain is trying to start a new cold war, and Jeremy Scahill says the refs are trying to mount a coup, WTF?

I have no problems using the Loop for downtown.

But hey, haven’t you heard? In this magical free market there will be another supplier just waiting there with arms wide open happy to give you medical coverage that you can afford!

I made an edit to the last symptom to make it slightly more applicable:

To be fair to the Lannisters, the GOP has had 7 YEARS to come up with a better health care plan, and they keep shitting the bed...

One of the slickest moves capitalist pigs ever did was to portray themselves as “job creators”.

Until these issues arose, I always thought of DNAinfo as a united team . . .

Barber: What you want?

Larry Nance Jr: Make me look like a 2K default player

Barber: Say no more fam

“Aventura police treated it as a public-records request. According to their emails, Du Bois picked up a stack of public records from their office on Sept. 30. That’s where the email conversation ends.”

It’s scary how natural that is for you.

Neither am I anymore, honestly.