I’m a Bengals fan, and everything you say is correct. Burfict is a shitstain who should be out of the league.

I looked it up last night. It looks like your experience is about right—a 4.5 woman is supposedly equivalent to a 4.0 man (some message boards say a weak 4.0 man), and the consensus is that a 5.0 woman should consistently beat a 4.0 man. All I can say is, the fact that you and your wife are equally good at tennis (and…

Exactly. There are valid points to make about how it can be harder for women to improve and gain skills in a coed situation, for sure. But high-level women, on the right team, can be more important than high-level men. Especially because, as you say, there would be a much higher talent discrepancy between her and her…

I’m a 4.0 as well. I’ve never played with a 5.0 woman. I played a 4.5 woman in singles and beat her pretty easily. If you played your partner in singles, would she beat you? That sounds pretty awesome.

The disparity would be higher, except there’s a rule that the guy can only be two notches higher than the woman. I played in a 7.0 league as a 4.0 with a 3.0 partner, and we were generally better than any of the 3.5-3.5 teams we played against. I assume the rule is to make it easier to find partners—if you made…

I played ultimate frisbee at a pretty high level for many years, first in college, then on club teams. Club ultimate has a coed series that culminates in a national championship, which runs concurrently with the open and women’s events. I played on several good coed teams for many years, and also in quite a few coed…

He is, indeed, extremely immodest. But it’s mostly just honesty.

Are you a Jordan fan complaining that someone else is “an insufferable prick”? Because if you were, that would be slightly...let’s just say ironic.

The Warriors had a timeout.

Come on, man. He’s not calling them cheaters or advocating for someone to throw at their heads, he’s just saying they suck to watch, and if the best way to win under the current rules is the way they play, then the league should change the rules.

This is dumb.

eat arbys

There is no universe where that should be a defensive foul. Harden is great at drawing actual fouls, but that play and call is complete and utter bullshit.

I don’t know about the importance of the top seed. There’s a pretty good chance that Cleveland falls to the 4th seed behind Philly—they are tied in the loss column!—and Indiana is only two games behind them as well. Cleveland dropping below third is much more likely than Boston overtaking Toronto.

Two personal fouls per year is 30 yards. He punts about 80 times per year (69 last year, nice, but more in previous years). So those personal fouls knock less than 0.4 off of his average net yards per punt. If you factored it into his average, it would make him the fifth-best punter in the league instead of the third.…

You know something? Larry the Cable Guy is a shitbag and I would not want to go to a concert of his, but...he’s a very good comedian. Having listened to the Sirius comedy channels at length, I have come to terms with the fact that I’d rather listen to his standup than Lewis Black, or even John Oliver.

Matt Levine is a national treasure. Michael Lewis is a great writer as well—Liar’s Poker is fantastic—but (as someone who works in electronic trading) Flash Boys is such utter bullshit that it made me retroactively like his earlier books less, because I realized he was probably making shit up in those as well. (This…

Well, yeah, those kids spend most of their days on the playground.

As a LeBron fan, I thought at the time that they got a pretty good deal despite losing Kyrie, but I didn’t anticipate Jae Crowder also falling off a cliff. The fact that both those guys regressed significantly does lend some credence to the “Stevens is a genius” theory (although another factor is that Lue’s not…

Wait a minute. Are they playing net-cords on serves as live balls? It sure seems like they are, which is weird.