Most of the old Grantland writers don’t really care for Simmons or the editors because they left the writers out to dry at the mercy of the WWL without giving them any notice.

Beat me to this. My favorite scene in this show’s entire run.

I don’t know, but I doubt they’re obligated to stay at ESPN, since most of the pop culture writers (who, granted, ESPN would have no use for now) and some of the sports people (like Barnwell partner-in-crime Robert Mays) have taken new jobs elsewhere.

So they (conveniently!) so often remind us.

Yeah, I mostly agree.

It’ll also bring in a bunch of people from Grantland.

“We’re trying as hard as we can. I can’t do it myself. It’s going to take the effort of the mayor; politically we need support. The business community needs to step up..”

I was totally unimpressed by the trailers, particularly the writing and the humor in them. The movie is much better in both respects. In hindsight, I think the trailers suffered by having to bastardize the dialogue into something that could be approved for all audiences. The film itself is a very hard-R, especially…

Both movies were cooked up in labs years ago and play into a decades-long commitment to the extended comic universes and the money that comes with it.

Every other outlet was more than happy, for business reasons, to announce that the anti-Beyoncé rally was real, and happening, and preposterous. Any more preposterous than the hordes of reporters standing out in the rain right now waiting for phantom reactionaries?

Hey, have you not heard! My Knicks drafted Khristgod Porzingawd this year, fully absolving all previous errors. Yours is an easy if unacceptable mistake to make. I will now accept an apology, thanks!

Saul Katz, is that you?

Assuming that Burneko’s stuff for Concourse counts in Deadspin’s favor, I’d totally agree that Deadspin’s politics commentary is better.

I recently got into an argument about whether the many fuckups and oddities of the Roger Goodell-era NFL were more the result of evil or incompetence. My tendency was to lean toward evil — the NFL seems like too unstoppable a Brand behemoth to be actively bad at its primary function of hosting professional football…

Dear Jim Murray,

I don’t know if they’re public record in Massachusetts, but, man, I would love to see his visitor logs.

This is actually an underrated rock bottom for poor Johnny Football: When a guy who has agreed to coach the Raiders AND Browns (taking the latter job when he was still reportedly a prime candidate with other, non-cursed franchises) decides that YOU are not worth trying to fix.

The point isn’t that he “realized” this was a good strategy.

S.t.i.n.K

But is he the subject of multiple Latvian rap anthems? No? Then, please, stop wasting my time. SMDH.