For light sparring it will reduce cuts and black eyes, but the greater surface area makes it easier for blows that might glance or roll off your forhead to impact the head gear directly, so if your sparring partner has power, range, and accuracy your better off without it.

As someone who boxes, the risk of death or injury is not as high as people think, compaired to cycling in a major urban center, for example. Nearly every death occurs as the result of sucessive blows to the head, as opposed to a single shot. And it takes alot of blows to kill someone (I didnt watch the fight but he…

“Regardless of whether or not Press herself knew about Barstool Sports before aligning with them, her actions allowed the site to use her and the USWNT in that way, and for that reason she deserves the criticism she’s come in for.”

Its nice to get a Deadspin story on womens soccer written by a woman in which an American crowd is cheering a female soccer star from Canada, instead of threatening to murder one.

I’ve never read barstool in my life, but like one dude in the greys seems to be a fan. 

So she’s basically being chided for not being a good enough feminist when 90% of the press coverage of the USWNT focused on one player and ignored the rest of the team. I’m no fan of barstool, but this passive aggressive attempt at shaming her is more than a little creepy.

To add insult to injury, Gurley’s knee problem is percisely why working on a 1 year deal at the age of 27 is such a bad idea in the modern NFL.

To what extent is your multiple starred comment authentic, genuine, and not at all performative.

“Any criticism of Williams is a rhetorical minefield because it rewards some of the scummiest racists around, who are just constantly scrounging for ammunition.”

Did it take an entire world cup for Deadspin to publish a single article dedicated to a player who’s name is not Megan Rapinoe? And if so, how does that square with the websites support of her stance on equality and equal pay. 

For every unathletic fan who felt they were smarter than the average coach, no play was more exciting than a perfectly executed Doug Flutie naked bootleg in the red zone.

We actually know very little about weight loss. No one chooses to be obese, that part is true, but the DNA evidence has come under alot of fire recently to the point where alot of scientists are saying that it is a myth. It is really hard to keep weight off, even if you manage to cut it, and most gain is believed to…

The entire point to this article is to rile the haters up.

You would be a wonderful spokesperson for the LGBTQ community. I can't wait until this tournament is over.

Agreed. Mabe if they could take the time to learn another womens name on the team we wouldn't have this problem. 

If your friend equates critiques of American nationalism with sexism, then yes. 

So your saying that she is the perfect democratic presidential candidate.

Her ability to reaffirm every stereotype associated with the behavior of American’s abroad while, at the same time, being lauded as an example of American progress and exceptionalism at home is terrifying and fascinating.

This entire article, once again, reads like nothing more than a cleverly concealed dog whistle. Jill Ellis hasn’t coached her team to a single loss in the tournament, so she clearly must be doing something wrong. 

That would be a great scenario, but the problem with running a former prosecutor for president is all of the people that they prosecuted previously who are going to get alot of attention if she is put on the national stage. People do not like prosecutors, it is going to be very hard to convince your average swing…