this shit is inevitable, is a feature, not a bug, of this sport. it’s not right, and i’m pretty sure that most of you in the newsroom at gawker are aware of how fucked up it is, but still you cover it like it’s just a thing! dude hurt his head for some reason! wonder why.

he “got a pretty good shot there” because...is there a because?

good news, he was doing it in the service of making sure that his coach and AD make lots of money all off of his hard work. if the injury sticks, he’ll lose his scholarship and not have his insurance cover long term damage.

that just the colts keeping the fans in the game. NFL Preseason: where only the injuries matter.

at this point being a fan of the NFL is exactly the same as voting republican.

a true story: my first job out of college (and the reason i dropped out of same) was to work for Gore Vidal, doing research and general factotum-ing. while i was researching the calling of a constitutional convention for a piece he was writing, he came to LA to speak at Fairfax High School about his historical novels.…

as long as reporters conflate “protecting a source” with “protecting a powerful source who lied to me” we will never have a chance to at good reporting. period.

yesterday, i feared for your family’s well-being. TODAY I RIDE WITH YOU IN VICTORY ACROSS THE CHARRED HELLSCAPE OF BATMAN’S CHOAD-RIDDEN SOUL.

cool. i’m glad that my kid’s public school option is so shitty because we don’t have any money and there’s no bullet trains in this country and the bridges are falling apart and we can’t invest in renewable energy and so on.

this sort of magnification of small differences can create the worst kind of racism. when i first moved to LA in the early nineties i played in a soccer league of salvadorans (called, confusingly, nueva guatemala) and the endless racism (all black players nicknamed “Negro”, all the coaches white and called “profe” )…

In Touch, in all seriousness, has to be a dark horse for a Pulitzer.

number of words per messi highlight:

didn’t see this before i wrote my comment, great minds etc.

i’d like to write the same article except about The Fall. It would be...100,000 words or so. Denton pays by the word, right?

i look forward to the last 30 seconds of this game, which as with all tense NBA games will take over 10 of the most boring minutes of anyone’s life, but bizarro: Time-outs called on successful inbounds before a layup can be taken, “icing” your own player etc.

2 hours away from anyone under 30 giving a shit about their sport.

religion is so awesome. so many people who are so right about their opinions.

If I may offer a Hot Take which rises to the level of an argument which may or may not result in a Think Piece, Jia: you are missing the key to this whole thing, because, basically, Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle.

they got rocked

things that are not in fact heart pounding: guys standing there shooting free throws. games that take 30 minutes to cover a 1 minute amount of playing time. these things are the opposite of heart-pounding.