Unless you reject the idea of horse racing, you have to accept that horses break down and are destroyed.

If you're scoring at home, that's one infuriating horse death due to a scoreboard speaker, 412,326 due to greedy trainers injecting sore horses with nerve numbing drugs. The number of horses (and for that matter jockeys) who have died on the track when no ethical human being would have let them so much as gallop is…

"all we can do, in her sacrifice, is to make sure that it never happens again."

I reject the idea of horse racing. The end.

lol there was absolutely nothing wrong with you using the word sentiment. if you would have said "I can't get behind the sentiment of rooting for rivals just because they're part of my country" it would have made complete sense. In my opinion most people do not have a loose association between division,…

grapefruit ipa's are amazing, why not pineapple?

U must be new to Gawkers contrarian style of journalism. In summary Gawker Bloggers = VERY COOL, everything that's popular = Not cool enough for the Very Cool "Journalist" at gawker.

I hate defending Mushnik, but if someone says to call and make a conversation between the two participants only, then maybe it's best to just do that first.

You're coming off only slightly better than him in all this.

Well, I do get wound up when my marriage, which is the most important part of my life, is called "horseshit" by a writer I generally like in a very public setting. I'll cop to that.

I don't need to see your face to know you're being moody as hell right now

Dreads? You mean cornrows?

You can tell it's in Australia because the kid spun counter clockwise.

Isn't that such irony? The mainstream theaters thought it was too indie, and the indie theaters thought sports wouldn''t appeal to their clientele. Instead of trying things, and seeing what people may like or helping them expand their tastes, major studios are more than willing to repackage the same big-budget…

Yeah I was in Boston at the time and only 1 theater got it the summer it was released (the biggest indy theater). I wonder if indy theaters just didn't think a "sports" movie would sell well.

I was so disappointed when Sugar came and went with hardly a mention in most film circles. Maybe it's just because I'm into indies and baseball (and I loved Half Nelson), but this movie really deserved more exposure than it's ever got.

Umm they weren't exactly college athletes at that point. There's something like 120+ NCAA Division 1A teams, which probably include close to 10,000 players. There were 256 kids drafted last weekend.

I am eternally grateful to Chipotle for existing in parts of this country where the only other dining options are of the Chili's or Applebee's variety.

"Because journalists are paid to cover newsworthy events like *selfies?"

Needs a more sensational headline like