I think the fact that you read Jezebel "for bizarre laughs" kind of says it all.

Just to reiterate what everyone else in the world has already said... what are the odds Lynch gets stuffed on the 1 three plays a row?

Pretty sure a thousand people are about to blast you for overreacting, but I'm thinking you might be right.

Holy shit I was born on the same day as Marshawn Lynch.

Yeah, if it was really part of his job, they would eventually terminate him for not doing it. That would never happen. The NFL really wants him to go through the whole media ritual, and so they're trying to nudge him along with fines, but at the end of the day he's a running back, not a PR lackey, and so long as he's…

You know, ever since the whole 1st Amendment thing I feel like I never know if you're dead serious, or snarking, or snarkily anti-snarking, or full snark-ception. It's unsettling. I liked it better when I knew where you stood (15ish yards behind the long snapper).

Here's the thing though—it's not part of his job, not really. No team will ever cut him for not answering the media's questions. His job is what his team pays him to do (run the football). The Seahawks don't give a shit whether he makes his media appearances or not. It's a bizarre requirement, with no bearing on his…

Former Broncos RB Lance Ball is from Jersey... really makes you think.

"Physical ailments are more easily diagnosed than psychological ones."

If the sport doesn't bring in revenue for the school, where does the money come from? Who's ultimately paying for it?

Quick question: how is this any different from saying "Johnny Manziel looks pretty woozy on the sideline after that last hit, I think he might have a concussion"? Or, "Derrick Rose keeps shying away from contact, I think his knee is still hurt"? We speculate about athletes' physiological states all the time. And yeah,…

Can I ask why you think that sentence is so dumb? The officers who killed Michael Brown and Eric Garner weren't indicted, and I'd wager that >50% of America was okay with those decisions (if it's not most Americans, it's certainly a huge chunk). So, are you disputing that Brown and Garner were black? Unarmed? Killed…

Yeah, that's my usually my go-to example. Congratulations, you did things the right way! Your prize: getting swept by the Heat. You've got some pieces now though...

How would you change the system, though? It's almost impossible to win a title without one of the league's elite superstars (inb4 04 Pistons). If you can't get one in free agency, the draft is your only shot. If you overhaul the draft lottery to discourage tanking, you're just making it that much harder for small…

Yeah, I don't agree with some of the Sixers individual moves, but I'd much rather my team have a vision for the future than be eternally mediocre. As a Bobcats/Hornets fan (lol), I was much happier when the team was historically bad because it was bottoming out for a full rebuild, than when they tied up a bunch of…

Star for effort. Snide comment for execution.

Just made the case that him punching her almost certainly wasn't a one-off thing, but I totally agree that, even if it was, writing this off as an "incident" is super fucked up.

We know for a fact it wasn't an isolated incident. In Jemele Hill's interview, she says that earlier in the night, when they were in the club, she tried to look at Ray's phone and he responded by spitting in her face. She says this super casually, like it's just some random detail, largely unrelated to what happened…

Not a false equivalency. My point was simply that it is possible to say, for some crimes, whether the experience of a victim would be worse than the experience of a falsely accused perpetrator, or vice-versa. Your $100 example illustrates the same point—I'm certainly not arguing that for any crime it's always worse to…

As a business school lecturer, this makes me sad.