“His decision is made for the right reasons and values, and it speaks volumes about the kind of honorable person that Gary Andersen is,” so says the AD (his third AD in three seasons).

“See all replies. Ha, you can’t see them all yet, gotcha. Wanna see them? Click here. Ha! Got you again! You still can’t see all the replies!!! Ha ha. OK, no this time, I’ll really show you all the replies, if you just click here, really. Ha!!! Got you again!!!...Oh, and by the way, you’ll never know who was replying…

I actually do have it, but I’ve never gotten anybody to play it with me. It’s basically a puzzle, so I do occasionally set it up and leave it out for a few days, solving different arrangements every now and then. It has that can’t-stop-but-not-really-having-fun type of appeal, like a bowl of almonds.

I think this was supposed to be some kind of troll/joke thingy, but maybe not. Board games suck, I guess? Not sure.

“Dominion, Agricola, Ricochet Robots, Race for the Galaxy, Power Grid”

“I don’t see where the author mentioned Darwin. You did though. So that’s quite a forceful argument you’ve got going on with yourself.”
 

“I am a public figure, and that the rules are different.” Well, you set the rules.
 

No big deal, of course, and to your point, it was indeed a lot more than that, something like $38M in stories from earlier this year, plus some horses for someone’s equestrian daughter, naturally, and who knows what all else in bonus prizes. It was as lavish as you’d think. They only got him for a fraction of what is…

He didn’t get the bribes, he gave the bribes, as the story indicated. He paid for approval of the deal he needed.

“So to make sure I understand this... facebook throws what amounts to a small town’s population at you over the course of a summer, you happen to recognize one last name and location out of the shotgun blast of randos...”

Yup. Best piece I’ve ever read at Deadspin, probably.

“The main perpetrator, you know the WHITE QB teammate, is getting ready to play his 3rd season of college football. Yeah, first 2 were JC and I think his new team is kind of obscure...”

I’ve always felt this way about Ray Lewis, and still do. But there was one time when I saw another side of him—that series he did on Spike TV (if I recall) called Coaching Bad, a “reality” series about anger management, where some youth sports coaches who had problems with rage went through group therapy on camera.…

I get what you’re saying about Whitlock. I don’t get why you have to fat-shame him to say it.

Who uses Facebook for sports reporting? It’s weird, and I hate it. Great reporting, though.

It’s the kind of reference that one might expect from a writer whose intro to an article on archaeology goes like this: “Those who live vicariously through Indiana Jones will be glad to know....” 

“No wonder everybody hates Oregon State.” Everybody doesn’t hate Oregon State. Everybody ignores Oregon State, except in the Willamette Valley. You’re a Duck fan, if you think everybody hates Oregon State. If you’re a Duck fan, you’re just in here taking your program’s side as much as that guy; it doesn’t matter if…

“He forgot to re-register as a sex offender” you say.

“He’s been a model citizen since.” He JUST NOW failed to properly register as a sex offender. In April. So that the fucking sheriff went and fucking picked him up. This last April. Everything you just said is false. He has NOT “done what was asked.”

I’m also local, and a Beavers fan. So you’re saying that the fact that he failed, just a few months ago, to fulfill his legal obligations as a sex offender, so that the Benton County sheriff’s office had to go round him up on campus...is not worthy of a game suspension, at minimum? What do you think should happen for…