Angeleno here. This litany of complaints about L.A. and the IOC are mostly true, though I’m not sure they add up to “a scam to speed up the rate of (the city’s) whitewashing.” It’s a pretty unprovable thesis that the 2028 Games will accelerate the negative effects of gentrification in L.A. beyond what the city would…

Apparently, the ‘organic’ thing for sports teams to do is squeeze fans for hundreds of dollars per game year after year while they openly admit to trying to play worse and worse and worse in the hopes that a transformational high schooler will come along and they can luck into just the right set of circumstances to…

This story doesn’t make you out to be the hero you imagine.   

GM’s love acquiring and hoarding assets because it shields them from accountability for years and defers them from having to do the really tricky part, making a good team championship level. James took him all the way to that last step and he’s unhappy? Pure fucking ego on Griffin’s part, he just wants the bullshit…

The fact that you think breastfeeding takes 5 minutes (or any determinate amount of time) shows you don’t know enough about the topic.

Oh good, another think piece by a man telling women that they should be outraged at something instead of listening to the women involved and hearing what they think about it. Great!

Beyoncé was awful.  It’s okay to say it.

All of this.

Is it possible that it’s maybe not outright homophobia, but still pretty shitty to criticize someone for not being gay the way you want them to be (politician or not)?

Ah the old no true Scotsman.

“3. Why do you think runners should be required to take extra steps to make up for a poor throw by the fielding team. Why punish the person who didn’t make the mistake?”

White pretty clearly gets clipped on the swing back before the kick...

The art for the cards that have been totally redrawn is just better. The older versions, particularly the sexy cards, are just bad illustrations. They’re like if a teenager was dictating a half-remembered pulp fantasy cover illustration. They’re neither novel or interesting. This is a good change.

I don’t know. I think their “these images really weren’t for the game we were making and are not representative of the game we have made.” is a perfectly reasonable response. 

Yeah, Blizzard used to be all about that mature Art, none of this PG-13 blockbuster edginess! I remember when I first started up Warcraft: Orcs & Humans - it was so Mature my beard grew an inch. And I hadn’t even hit puberty yet!

There's nothing wrong about booing the opposition. It's part of home advantage actually. 

As a Paris resident, I am 100% behind this move.

Washed up Suarez, sadly soon to be washed up Messi, and a never healthy Neymar.

IDK; Beyond their longevity, I think what defines the Spurs’ dynasty is the dynasties they either killed or interrupted.

They put a kink in the Lakers, which, had they gotten their shit together could have had not just 2 three-peats like the Bulls, but possibly six or seven in a row.

They shattered* would very well…

Jackson coached the Lakers from ‘99 through 2011, minus the 2005 season. The Spurs won in ‘03, ‘05, and ‘07. You can split hairs all you want, but how are you going to ‘split’ the Lakers’ dynasty to get around their down years, while just arguing that the Spurs shouldn’t be one because they didn’t go back-to-back?

The…