As any media lawyer or journalism professor will tell you, the word “alleged” offers no legal protection if you actually libel someone. Direct attribution, for which is what the author is arguing, is the best course from a legal and ethical perspective: “Three women say John Smith raped them” NOT “John Smith accused of…

The inherent contradiction in King’s role at MMQB is that everyone acknowledges he has unprecedented access to the inner workings of the NFL...yet he does absolutely nothing of note with it.

They should have done exactly what teams had been doing before Trump’s comments opened the door for the NFL and its owners to sanitize this entire movement and surrounding debate into a marketing campaign.

Why smart writers dislike Melo: His isolation-dependent style is inefficient and runs contrary to their analytically-minded ideal of good offensive play. He stops the ball and takes long, contested two-point shots, both of which things are frowned upon in the modern NBA, for well-founded reasons.

The media lied to you.

This might be a logical argument if NFL teams were being honest about why they’re choosing not to employ Kaepernick. Honestly, if team owners or coaches came out and said, “He’s free to protest on his own time, but he insists on doing so while wearing our uniform, and we find his protest distasteful, so we will not be…

I’m usually loathe to defend my Jets, but the trade is really Sheldon Richardson, who has one year left on his deal and who they never intended to extend, in exchange for (1) being worse this season, so as to tank more effectively, (2) a 2nd round pick and, as an afterthought (3) Jermaine Kearse, a warm body at a wide…

I briefly read the headline of this post as “Cumming is good,” which is the only blog title possible that could be more obviously true and correct than this one.

While I get what you’re saying, I think my best argument in defense of a tanking strategy for the 2017 Jets is this: They were going to be bad anyway. Like, very bad. They had no reasonable access to even an acceptable quarterback, virtually every veteran who was on the roster at last season’s end was on a steep…

Look, I definitely don’t understand the MLS’s economic situation, so I can’t judge whether and to what extend this article gets it right. But I am familiar with this post’s author’s work, and I was responding to a comment that called him a “dime store economist,” a phony expert and the rough equivalent of a psychic. …

This is some pretty sketchy back-of-the-envelope math. The category you’ve hand-waved as “other club and league expenses” includes a bunch of major costs, including executive salaries (!!!!), non-gameday support staff, maintenance, taxes, travel costs (!!!!), utilities and marketing, and that’s just off the top of my…

You have no idea what you’re talking about. Neil deMause is one of the best-respected writers in the U.S. on the subject of franchise economics and stadium finance. He’s been covering this subject for decades, in greater detail than just about anyone. His book, Field of Schemes, was on the leading edge of covering the…

Excited to find out what font Dan Gilbert’s using these days! 

Thanks! And good luck. (We all need a bit right now.)

The sad truth is, these outlets are willing to lose some readers like you because they’re chasing ad dollars, not views. (I’m an employee of a media company where video has also recently become increasingly desired, so I have some experience with this). This pivot-to-video thing is a byproduct of a much more…

I agree Tyrion would be the most priceless captive to Cersei - and I’d probably prefer if he was Euron’s gift, because if they’re expecting the show’s fandom to give a damn about Whichever Sand being in peril, they’re badly mistaken - but it feels like Tyrion needs to be around for whatever Jon and Dany machinations…

It doesn’t really matter if the point Sansa was making was obviously right or not, because she was obviously wrong to not hash it out with Jon ahead of time in private conversation but to instead publicly undercut him and question his decisions in front of all the lords of the north.

I’ve seen a lot of people predicting this, but I’d be surprised if they made such a show of anointing Tyrion as Dany’s hand in the last episode of Season 6 and then have him instead spend another season as a prisoner, a la Season 4. It’d also be hard to explain why Cersei wouldn’t just execute him on the spot, and…

I agree it wouldn’t likely be empty, but that made for a more cinematic scene and a better moment for her character. Also, as others have noted, Stannis until very recently was living there, so it hasn’t been empty for 20 years.

This is horseshit. I work in local media, and I can tell you that in 100 percent of my experience, the reporters who bust their ass covering city halls and governors’ offices and crime and courts and fucking traffic aren’t pitching their stories with the intent to divide anybody, and certainly not as some grand…