Glad to see the Stanimal getting some love on Deadspin. That was an amazing match. Wawrinka doesn’t look like a guy who will win wars of attrition, but he did it against Del Potro and again against Djokovic. That freaking backhand. A thing of beauty. If only he could have taught Federer how to really hit a one-handed…

when Crabtree threw the ball in the air, he could have concussed somebody.

How the fuck are you penalized for celebrating a game winning play???? These are young, passionate guys who probably just won a hard game, and they get flagged for their jubilation. It’s such a horseshit NFL standard.

I suspect the real story is this: Is it even remotely possible that neutral medical observers watching hit after hit to the head on replay DIDN’T recommend that he enter the protocol?

The NFL announced a separate investigation, saying in a statement today that it “is committed to the proper application of the Concussion Protocol.”

I get confused for an employee at grocery stores, Best Buy, pharmacies, Walmart, etc. etc. But I’m white. Maybe I just have that “the world has beaten my soul down” look to me that most retail workers come by naturally from the job.

Honestly the bad hits he took weren’t supermanning over the line of scrimmage but in the backfield being a normal QB. It is right to question the fairness of his treatment there.

I feel strange thinking this but honestly, would those hits have ever been allowed against a Tom Brady or Drew Brees? Like I get that Cam is a mobile quarterback and his style of play opens him up to more physical hits but I can’t imagine one of those QBs being hit with the four shots Newton took last night and not…

As I walked in, I saw a large group in the back of the room, enjoying coffee and conversing, so I walked to that area and joined the group. Almost immediately, the owner of another team asked me to get him coffee...I smiled, asked him how he’d like his coffee, and got it for him. I could have refused to do so. I…

Believe me, if NFL brass could get away with giving them less than that, they would.

Maybe if you can’t trust a person in their 20s to, literally, survive without your constant attention, you should reconsider whether or not to give that person millions of dollars.

Why do the press even ask what he thinks about <insert controversy>? Everyone knows he’s just a mealy mouthed bullshit machine whose overprocessed messaging is essentially meaningless. Is there someone out there reading off the AP wire going “well shit, glad to hear ole Rog had some lukewarm horseshit to say about the…

“I think it’s important to have respect for our country, for our flag, for the people who make our country better*; for law enforcement; and for our military who are out fighting for our freedoms and our ideals.”

Paraphrased: we support our military who is out there fighting for our freedoms (because any day now, we’re gonna be occupied and lose them? It’s been a very long time since our freedom was actually at stake in a military conflict), but we don’t support people who exercise those freedoms.

“I think it’s important to have respect for our country, for our flag, for the people who make our country better; for law enforcement; and for to charge our military who are out fighting for our freedoms and our ideals.”

How much actual entertainment is there in an NFL broadcast? I know that people like to point out how little game action there is, but even within that timeframe, many of the actual plays are boring. Extra points, fair catches, running backs getting stopped at the line of scrimmage ...

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