The NBC coverage was hilariously bad. They showed the replay dozens of times, talked about it, etc., and no one said anything about the obvious contact. The Brazilian woman was all the way over to the side of the lane! The commentator at one point congratulated one of the spotters for “noticing” that Felix’s knee…

The Jon Kitna story made me like Jon Kitna more.

The Flipkens-Venus match was a shitshow. Ugly, tight tennis. They both deserved to lose.

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Counterpoint: Alabama was lucky they didn’t have to play, and lose to, Ohio State again. It’s cute how Alabama still got to go to the playoff despite their annual loss to a mediocre Ole Miss team.

I SAID MY PIECE, CHRISSY.

Yeah I like the AV Club, but Hyden’s posts for Grantland were universally awful.

I just remembered that Lisanti wrote the Derek Jeter diary entries! My favorite non-Lowe thing on Grantland. Seriously, they were amazing. Go read them right now.

I thought it was going to be “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out,” which I love mostly because of its awesome horns, or even “Meeting Across the River,” which is similarly fantastic.

The best Perry Bible Fellowship comic is “No Survivors.”

“Sports” that require judges are not sports.

I sleep in a big bed with my wife.

Alabama-OSU ended on a Hail Mary with Alabama down 7. It didn’t feel like a blowout to me!

Are you serious? The difference is that the Olympics gives out GOLD MEDALS for the equivalent of leading the league in rebounds.

I’m with Burke. I was 7 at the time. Had no idea who Marvin Gaye was or why he was so important that Dan Rather was announcing his death on the news. I knew who Michael Jackson was because of Thriller.

Didn’t Querrey basically beat Djokovic by blasting huge serves?

I still won the match so I didn’t have to do anything unpleasant to his water jug.

This is nice, thanks. I think the Tracy Austin piece is fantastic, and definitely underrated compared to the others.

That is mentioned in the article, as the third and best essay, about someone with excellent but not transcendent talent.

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