These essays about sports photography are among my favorite posts on Deadspin. Great work as usual.

Good to see the FBI is being Proactiv in this case.

After weighing the pros and cons of signing Colin Kaepernick, the Raiders signed said fan to back up E.J. Manuel while David Carr recovers from an injury.

More stuff that’s illogical:

A writer on Noisey today noted that Tom Petty was always out of touch with the times because his music was timeless.

I’m 54 year old. Tom Petty and his music have been a constant in my life since I’m 13. I’ve worn out his records and seen him perform more times than I can count. He never quit. He has a new album and just finished a tour — he never became a “play the greatest hits at the county fair” guy.

Pretty sure Andy (the hero of the story) gets raped in Steven King’s novella Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption. (Andy/Tim Robbins definitely gets raped in the film adaptation.) This doesn’t change your point, just noting the exception to the rule.

One way to eliminate tanking might be to incentivize teams to win as many games as possible. Less teams would tank if revenue was relative to their won-loss records.

I most often hate my job. But the fact that I’m at work and not near a television when this shit goes down is a saving grace.

Charlie’s Angels became Angels because the police department where they worked assigned them to boring jobs like meter maid, typing and crossing guard. Charlie took them away from all that.

Thanks Hazel, good story. I had no idea this was going on, nice work.

You got robbed.

Not sure if this is in the article, but UCLA’s gymnastics team is always at the top or near the top when it comes to academics among UCLA’s athletic teams. It’s in the culture she created — the seniors and juniors make sure the freshmen know that excelling in the classroom is expected of them.

Which guy?

Wayne was before my time with the Dodgers. Good one, though.

I covered the Dodgers in the 90s.

Exhibit A:

Won’t Trump just pardon him before he flips?

“Los Angeles already had a professional football team that plays in the Coliseum.”

When it comes to disciplining the players further it all comes down to this: