She was already in the lead at that point. By calling out random letters, she was minimizing how much she was helping her opponents, while letting them do all the work.

Football fans are the dumbest motherfuckers on the face of the planet.

Pop culture is, by definition, a trollish waste of time. This trollish waste of time has blood and dragons. Quit complaining.

If you were to edit this column to describe the career arc of Adam Sandler, you would probably only have to change, like, 12 words.

So what you’re saying is Bill Simmons is the Adam Sandler of sports journalism. Sounds about right.

I love this article.

Trust me. Tommy will never get into Cooperstown.

DeAndre Jordan at the charity stripe thinks Austin Rivers looked a little awkward there.

Man, he’s gonna be pissed when someone reads this article to him.

Um. Any discussion of the Panthers’ worst draft picks starts over who’s #2...

“You wanna know what NFL pick I’d do over? Jeez, there are so many to choose from... probably that one against the Saints in the NFC Championship game?” -Brett Favre

OK, so a few things here:

Kind of like having 9 different “Brevity” entries in “Concise Sentences and Active Verbs?”

“The sourcing and background are worse than a Rolling Stone article about campus rape.” Absolutely, having documents and emails from the people involved is far worse than relying on a sole source and not checking her story.

Yeah, this I don’t get. Is this poster insinuating that the emails and playbook are fake? Whatever issues you might have with the whole Howard-Whitlock dynamic, it doesn’t change the fact that the email communications and manifesto that were published today are some serious weirdness.

How is the sourcing bad? Unlike Rolling Stone, don't you think if asked, Greg can prove the emails are legitimate—probably from the wrongly-fired assistant?

“Too many rules get in the way of leadership. They put you in a box. People set rules to keep from making decisions.”

What seems weird about it to me is him flattening the universe to put Jordan and Ali on the same continuum. It’s not that one or the other of them is/was “bigger” than the other; they’re famous and culturally significant in completely different ways. The scale on which Ali is “bigger” than Jordan…

During the 2001-02 season I interned for a NBA team in their corporate sales department running promotions. One of the promotions I ran was where we gave out a bunch of tickets to different schools to each game. A student from each school would come down for a picture with a player at half time. I would wait with the…