offends a portion or group of the public,

Savage. Nicely put.

Just saying “it’s a business” when someone/some corporation does something shitty doesn’t absolve the person/corporation.

I had to go too deep to find this!  This is spot on.  Other than some possible concern that they have players in country right now, the NBA totally underestimated its leverage in this moment.  And all they had to do was tell Morey/Houston/Harden et all to stop talking & just just stand behind the NBA statement of…

The most frustrating thing about this (which I expect Deadspin will cover soon) is how connected NBA reporters like Ramona Shelburne and Shams Charnia characterize Morey’s text as “offensive.”

What Tsai wrote was deeply offensive, and he knows better. The idea that every Chinese citizen opposes separatism is bullshit (ignoring that “separatism” isn’t a major element of the protests to begin with). I lived in China for many years and my wife is Chinese as are many of my closest and dearest friends. As…

The NBA really misplayed this. If China is sincerely this afraid of one person within one organization, the NBA could have struck a much harder line and forced China to be the bad guy. You want to suspend all NBA access to all Chinese fans and escalate all of this dramatically just because someone in America said…

I was sleepy so maybe I mis-heard him this morning on SC, but James Harden seemed awfully accommodating to the Chinese government while speaking to reporters in Japan about this. It’s one thing for an idiot President to sell out Hong Kong (not to mention the Kurds, but they don’t buy a lot of NBA merch so let’s leave…

I know that the Braves are young and fun and St. Louis is Public Enemy #1 in the Deadspin style guide, but as a Giants fan who will thus almost certainly* be cheering for the winner of this series against the Bums in the next round, I would very much rather align myself with the humorless smug fartsniffing Cardinals…

I get hating the Cardinals. I really do.

I wonder what he thought of the VAR review on Abamayang’s goal vs Man United. Goal ruled offside, then a massive eruption of celebration from the Arsenal fans when the goal was given.

Billy has always shown at best a tenuous grasp on sentence structure and what is a bicycle kick, but that statement raised questions about his understanding of reality as we know it.

“Normally, VAR robbing a player of a chance to celebrate what was likely the biggest goal of his entire life would be a shame, but Dennis’s “shot” was so flukey that in this case VAR was right to spoil it.”

It’s actually not a valid point, but nice try.

We TOTALLY all said this would happen, a couple years back, when Antonio Brown livestreamed himself during Coach Tomlin’s post-game harangue. We said this was the logical end to self-absorbed assholes with phones in the locker room.

You should really research before talking out your ass about the coffee issue. I agree on everything you said, except about the coffee. That was a horrific injury that you would not wish on anyone! The coffee was kept at 180°-190°, so hot a temperature, her genitals were permanently disfigured.

As some people have hinted at, there are a few different things that could be happening:

I think the play is fair as long as you only line up for a kneel.   If the QB had started to kneel in any sort of way, I would agree that it is cheap.  He started running which said “Hey, a play might be being run.”

I don’t mean to say that Greg Schiano is right about anything, and it’s different because this was a tie game and they were within threatening distance of scoring, but there should probably just be a signal to the refs of “hey, we’re going to run out the play clock” rather than the whole kneel down thing.

There’s no such thing as the “alt-left”, as said. The whole idea of “cancel culture” is vastly overstated. “Coherent moral frameworks” is a bad euphemism for Christianity, whatever the hell he intended with the phrasing that’s how it’ll be read. None of this is intelligent.