“Sports hate” is a thing and part of fandom; it’s totally fine to boo the guy you used to love who got a bigger check elsewhere! It just shouldn’t cross into actual hate unless you got a very Mayweather-y, Roethlisberger-y reason to do so. And definitely leave kids out of it!

This is tough because Harper was/is fun as shit to watch play, but personally insufferable. Dumb and self-righteous and also just dumb as dog shit.

Exactly right Gladwell’s premise is that you automatically believe the accused and not the victims. Which is insanity. His stupid fucking pet theory doesn’t even remotely apply here. 

Why would people be inside a place where the Barenaked Ladies were playing? 

At that time it would have been a club hockey game which maybe would have had a few dozen people in attendance at a shitty rec center near the football practice center. The concert is far enough away from the football building that the part of campus approaching the football building would have reasonably been…

the theory’s basic premise is that human beings generally operate under the assumption that the people we are interacting with are being honest.

And beyond your joke, it’s also probable that the campus would seem deserted if people were inside those arenas and not walking around when McQueary stepped outside.

Add to that McQueary was legitimately afraid of not only losing his job but also his entire career. If he was blackballed by Penn State, may as well go get that teaching certificate. Telling Paterno was a huge risk on his part. Completely agree that Gladwell is the lowest form of life for rehashing a settled matter,…

He wonders why McQueary remembers the campus as being deserted on the night he says he witnessed the assault (Feb. 9, 2001), even though there was a hockey game and a Barenaked Ladies concert on campus that night.

It’s not about being loyal to a stranger, it’s contrarianism as performative intellectualism.

There’s a very simple reason why McQueary didn’t go to the cops right away: sometimes when we see things that go against our pre-existing beliefs, our brains work their asses off to come up with reasoning. McQueary respected Sandusky as a football coach and seeing him rape a child was outside of what he expected. So…

“The integrity of our game is going to [be] damaged when the safety of players is not at the forefront

“We’ll be right back after this brief commercial break and we’ll allow Billy to finish his sentence.”

Remarkable to see a take that is such garbage in both quality of writing and quality of opinion

Yea. This is Billys “ahhhh ha gotcha” piece. He thinks the EPL is the new La Liga based on its best two clubs “ascending to a new level”. Thats why the timing is funny. The two spanish teams used for this comparison are their worst in honestly as long as most can remember. And the two english teams used have literally…

I’m just here for the Billy comments.

Next time, not a single fucking period; really fuck with them

You know where they don’t have 8-0 games Billy ? Time for you to get that Vela LAFC jersey and the Real Salt Lake scarf to go with your Red Bulls coffee mug. You know you wanna do it baby ! You know you do ! It’s only a matter of time before you’re sitting across from Kate Abdo discussing El Traffico or the MLS Cup.…

One of the core concepts used to support this belief—and maybe the most important one, as it sought to preempt the strongest point of evidence for the contrary position: the inarguable supremacy of Barcelona and Real Madrid—was the idea that, unlike in Spain where the Big Two effortlessly piled mountains of goals and…

The timing of this article is hilarious.