She’s the only one of you I’d like to spend a night on the town with. I doubt anybody has ever had a boring time in her presence.

Finally, the moment my stupid Kinja handle has been waiting for.

Well researched. Well written. If your out of the job next week you should send this to Algaezeera. They’d love it.

Counterpoint: Deadspin doesn’t have too much soccer, but Deadspin soccer posts could each be approximately 80% shorter. Someone get Billy an editor.

You can always tell when swimmers beef. Just look for the bubbles.

I’m imagining Terence Malick filming this script, stretching it out to 85 minutes - no added dialogue, just long gorgeously framed shots of open countryside, teeming crowds on sidewalks, people jostling through the gates of a ballpark, players going through their pregame rituals, etc., all set to a score somewhere…

And Iran

Filling out a tax return.

“WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK!”

I do not believe at this point the police had any obligation to use restraint. This killer had to be neutralized at first opportunity before more people got killed.

not to make light of a tragic situation...but

Yep, same thing. Our 3rd grade class in Maitland went outside to watch the launch from the P.E. court. It didn’t look like any other... launch... we’d seen.

Technically, I remember earlier big news stories — the ‘84 Reagan rout of Mondale, the Diana-Charles wedding, and the attempted assassination of Reagan. But none…

I was eight when I stood outside with my class at Apollo Elementary in Titusville, FL and watched the Challenger explode. You’re right - it was so, so cold that day. Our parents picked us up from school, my mom crying, and my dad came home from his space industry job. And with the sadness was real fear in my parents’…

“Johnny Manziel...mauled, senselessly, by lions at age 23" - Tom Brokaw

The fuck would I be doing in New Jersey?

Amen. Real talk.

Something reasonable but unrealistic (“After a meeting with the commissioners, the NFL has pledged to institute a zero tolerance domestic violence policy with automatic one year suspension and loss of wages”) that they will look terrible when backtracking.

Oh for fucks sake. Real finished one point behind Barca in La Liga. They were knocked out of the Copa due to a paperwork mistake. They beat the squad that knocked Barca out of the UCL.

Somewhere Barbaro is looking down on this race and still not comprehending any of this, because he is a horse.