Yeah, this tic has become pretty common with some pundits.

This is a variation of not being able to hit because you’re “musclebound,” verified by the existence of muscular men who can’t hit.

What are those giant Head ski things she always has during interviews? They aren’t actual downhill skis are they? Why are Olympic skiers allowed to have these advertising props in the shot anyway?

What I thought was weird was that they used virtually no technology to illustrate anything that was going on with the skiiers going down the course, to show us where they took good lines or not, what their speed was, etc. And very few split times, so you barely knew how a skier was doing. Bode in his monotone gave…

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

That is something that is often lost on the media (maybe because media is mostly heathen and/or Jewish). Evangelicals think Catholics are weird pope-worshippers who haven’t really accepted their Savior.

Huh? I thought either the headline would turn out to be Onion-style satirical or the that we’d learn the skaters had some personal connection. I’d expect this from treacly days of ABC Olympic coverage, but in Deadspin? And what part of this tale endorses the idea that “everyone is simply expected to absorb the news…

Get Big Walt, now Very Big Walt, out there with him.

Yes, I must admit I have never known the precise definition of Doc’s “spirits” verb. Most of his are more self-evident. 

Doc has more verbs than any other sportscaster for moving or shooting the puck, but they are not all synonyms, and many have distinctive meanings. A saucer pass is elevated a bit off the ice, spinning in a controlled horizontal flight like a Frisbee and landing neatly near the stick of the target player.

It’s odd that Chicago sports radio is not very confrontational. The ESPN station is just typical ESPN garbage and genuflection toward big names. The true local, WSCR, is rather high minded as sports radio goes. Even its most contentious guy, Dan Bernstein, draw reaction for his condescending treatment of his hoi…

Yes, thyroid cancer generally is quite treatable, and not fatal. In fact, many thyroid removals are considered unnecessary. It’s rampant in South Korea. This man was unfortunately a bit of an exception.

Aside from the homespun elements, his show was the one national showcase for Americana-style music, including a lot of female artists who don’t get widespread radio airplay.

These “charities” spend a huge part of what they collect to pay the companies that call you and imply that giving to them is a good way to show you appreciate the fine work of police officers who protect you.

You’ve kind of just described all that was wrong with the officiating, and then dismissed it because Bleh. Your first point—yes, but why is incompetence so common. Second point, many people disagree with you on the interference; few disagree about the Gronk hit.

Read Theo Fleury’s book too.

Making them go a little faster isn’t magically going to transform baseball back into America’s most popular sport.

The most common argument against these measures is “it’s only 8 (or 6 or 10 or what ever) minutes—what difference will that make?” Well, for one thing, it makes the game shorter. It’s a start. It may set an attitude change in motion. And it can seem significant. I used to go to a lot of night games. Now I go to zero,…

Am guessing that they will come to a settlement, with the hockey team agreeing to pay the Army a ongoing royalty consisting of giving the Army marketing opportunities at the game presentations and in other settings related to the team. I doubt the Army actually expects to receive a full ruling in its favor.

Totally. When I read about recovering alcoholics, like the TV anchor in Atlanta who passed away, and they downplay/dissemble about the true extent of their consumption (she was talking about a DUI, and copped to “stopping for a drink with a friend after dinner,” I know they are not really in honest recovery.