“when the NCAA is and has always been very clear about the fact that commercial entities cannot use the name and image of college athletes for profit”

“Rather than trying to argue that the NCAA’s regulations are grossly unfair to the athletes and should therefore be invalid, or something similar, Smack Apparel president Wayne Curtiss instead tries making an irrelevant argument about satire in his response to the cease-and-desist.”

this. NCAA rules don’t apply to random businesses. Anyway, the NCAA claimed for years that things like “DUKE player #3" was not a likeness to an athlete.

I’m absolutely gobsmacked to see a Deadspin writer cite NCAA amateurism regulations as somehow controlling the business activities of an unaffiliated private business.

Well played, sir. You think you’ve fooled us all, but some of us know a true Stasi would never let intel like this slip past them.

Q: What do Adolf Rupp and Adolf Hitler have in common?

Yeah, tornados are fucking horrifying and they often kill people, mostly because folks don’t understand what’s going on and they don’t get to a safe place.

Just a reminder that Under Armour is one of the brands being banned by the #grabyourwallet campaign. Please do not buy.

Just a reminder that Under Armour is one of the brands being banned by the #grabyourwallet campaign. Please do not…

Yes, but the piece is by a columnist, a media figure who at least in theory ought to have a passing acquaintance with reality.

Hey thanks for proving the whole “Republicans ignore context and history” theme of the post.

Yup. And then the Senate held confirmation hearings for Gorsuch. Filibustering a nomination after hearings have been held in an attempt to shoot down a nominee and force Trump to put forward a different nominee, or even voting against Gorsuch when it comes time to vote =/= refusal to hold a hearing for Merrick Garland.

Yes but that’s when an actual president was trying to do his job. Now a representative of the Russian mob is trying to do his job so fuck him.

“Obviously mentally ill”....are you a psychiatrist/psychologist? If not...misdiagnosing someone as having a mental illness really isn’t cute either.

This is insulting to children and babies.

By that logic, West Coast teams shouldn’t get home games in the World Series, because it’s dumb to try to make it a thing to get excited about when it’s almost 10:30 on the east coast and the game is in the bottom of the 3rd.

It’s not dumb.

“You talk about running yourself right out of the game.”

You should have read Dan Marino’s letter endorsing Merrick Garland.

Even better, make it a trifecta:

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