To be fair, that was at the back end of the NBA’s talent desert/ Coaching desert/isolation brickfest when the idea of a tall man surrounded by four spot-up shooters passed for next-level thinking. Of course coming up in that period is probably what led him to believe that becoming a second rate Shaq without any post…

Come on, be fair. By all accounts there are many people who find Dwight to be fun and charming and go months before he wears them down and they can’t stand to look at his stupid face for one more goddamn second.

He was obviously exaggerating, he doesn’t mean that literally no one else was willing to pay him 5.3 Million for 1 year. He meant he didn’t get any serious starting player caliber offers. Once you decide to go with a one-year prove-it contract $4M doesn’t really matter. He decided playing for GSW was better than 1…

You can’t blame the PA without blaming the NBA owners equally. Salary cap smoothing was a move to help the competitive balance of the NBA and protect the owner’s from bad contracts, which is NOT the players’ association’s job. The NBA should have made an offer that offered the players a benefit, not one that maybe…

I just found out that the Sherwin Williams Global Headquarters building is home to the famous giant LeBron James billboard in Cleveland. So perhaps this is no coincidence.

Clarissa’s arc got wasted. She asks Ashford if decisions at the end of life can redeem you, because she has decided she was wrong, she has forgiven Holden and now she wants to die in a blaze of glory to help mankind and to receive her punishment and get redemption. She reaches the right conclusion on her past mistakes,…

That’s a spoiler. From the end of the next book. Hardly an important one though. Show hasn’t explained that.

Too fast is WAY better than too slow. One or two more episodes would have been great, but if they had followed form and wrapped it up in episode 5-6 next season, that would have been awful. They tried to make Ashford a more interesting character than in the books, but that made his role in the finale kinda strange. In…

According to a sponsored link at the bottom of the webpage I accidentally opened in another tab, Hollywood won’t employ Alyson Hannigan anymore, so this story cannot be right.

These people think only their opinions are truly “reasonable” and only they can avoid “Group-think.”

Mexico will never forget this. For saving them from a humiliating end to their world Cup dreams, Mexico will do literally anything for South Korea’s national team, as long as “anything” isn’t a draw versus Honduras.

Fighting evil isn’t supposed to be easy. Some people are cynical assholes who will try to score cheap points on the internet, but we white males have to understand why some people have trouble trusting our support. Marginalized groups have been shot in the back by supposed allies time and again for expediency, respecta…

I don’t want athletes showing off how smart and enlightened they are by smugly repeating what they heard on a podcast or at Angelina Jolie’s or James Woods’ house. But I think it would be helpful to hear: “This is not the way the world should be and it is because of specific knowingly hateful actions taken by specific…

Thompson also teases that he’d like to get Barack Obama to do a Black Jeopardy, saying he’d be “a lot of fun” and that the’d probably do it if they came up with a good pitch.

If a bunch of Southern Rednecks can yell “SEC! SEC!” at bowl games, the Northwestern quadrant of the globe can be happy for Mexico’s success and hope their glory will reflect onto the rest of us. A strong, successful Mexican national team is good for the US team and the rest of CONCACAF. If El Tri lets in two own…

As long as they aren’t beside brown people and gay people they’re ok.

I like the tie breaker where you disregard results versus the worst team in the group, to lessen the reward for running up the score on the worst team in a single game and reward teams that perform well against all the competition. Alternatively you could reward consistent quality by throwing out each team’s biggest…

This situation is stupid because the loser probably has the better knockout round path so there is an incentive kick Eden Hazard’s shins into Lithuania. Here’s hoping the teams do the sportsmanlike thing and compete to see who can let in the most egregious boner-goals, and lose 3-2 despite giving up no shots on goal.

Is this how protein water works?

It may be funny, but it’s also monstrous and people who think it’s acceptable here are monstrous: even if it were the funniest joke in the world (as opposed to lazy, dismissive, condescending and insulting). It’s a simple formula take something that is being taking seriously, and insultingly deny its importance. That…