OK, I’ve seen a few responses like this (e.g., Brady’s poor press conference before the “Deflategate” Super Bowl) and it misses my point:

Miller should have made right away a brief WRITTEN statement (like he has just done, finally) that clearly states that he didn’t do the main thing he was accused of, i.e., the 100k…

Doesn’t seem that smart to me.

If you need a lawyer to look over every nook & cranny of a statement that you release the day after the ESPN report saying, “I have never discussed with Christian Dawkins paying DeAndre Ayton to attend the University of Arizona” (i.e., what he ended up saying)...it strongly suggests there…

I just want to point out the right (including some “both sides” folks) regularly got whipped into a frenzy over the allegation that the Clinton Foundation paid for Chelsea’s wedding (with no proof beyond a hacked email from a Clinton “friend” who disliked Chelsea mentioning use of “resources” for the wedding), even…

OK, fine...but why would it take 5 days to come out with this statement?

You either talked about a 100,000 payment or you didn’t.

I’m not sure U2 could sell out a venue that big today

Yes. To quickly sum up, one of them was a psychopath and the other a depressed follower. That was the cause, not bullying.

There is this pernicious, persistent narrative that some of the guys who commit mass-school shootings, are doing it “just” to get revenge on those bullies who wronged them. That is makes it OK.

At best, you can understand it, but it never is OK. One of the many horrible things about Columbine was how much undeserved…

Absolutely. He’s towards the end of a successful NBA career, clearly is prepping for a career afterwards as a media personality (see: the JJ Redick Podcast) and he’s going to out himself as a troll and bigot by “trying to smuggle an insult” towards a hugely important part of the NBA fan base in a league that prides…

Whoa...so either this GM is a vengeful, awful person with James Bond level spy skills (e.g., allegedly hacking her phone, computer and security system; causing locks to be changed three times (!) in three days (!!) ; tracking not only her but “my pets”) or something may be wrong with her. Either way, I hope she gets…

I can’t speak for everyone, but...I don’t think so. We haven’t gotten close enough to winning to have trauma or even really stress. It’s sad and frustrating, sure, but not traumatic. The phrase fans use is “S.O.L — Same Old Lions” — fans expect, correctly, that they’ll find a way to not be meaningful by the time…

Alright — the Lions beat someone! We successfully hired an accomplished Pats assistant and the pill poppin’ Colts couldn’t!

OK, so the one we hired gave up over 500 yards in his last game, but at least he wanted to come to the Midwest and take the job.

Remember: he won two as the defensive coordinator with the Giants.

I think we mostly agree — he expects from the players total commitment to the Patriots and complete removal of self, yet he shows no loyalty to them in return (by this, I mean consideration for past sacrifices or performance) — he only cares what you can do for him/Patriots going forward.

Well, unless someone has actual footage of Butler out at 3am at First Avenue smoking a fat joint with Jerome and Morris, we have to take both him *and* Belichick at their word: it was for “football reasons.”

Which is unbelievably, unaccountably, dumb.

Belichick has been (is?) great because of his focus, not on loyalty…

Did he at least follow Edward Tufte’s rules of presentations?

The amount people trust doctors can not be overstated. It doesn’t matter if you are a patient, a parent, a policeman or even a prosecutor you are strongly conditioned in our culture to give medical professionals *every* benefit of the doubt.

Yep - saw McEnroe on TV about a week ago (FS1 shows that PowerShares tour with surprising regularity) when he easily beat a much younger, but also much less in shape, Michael Chang.

His power — which was never great to begin with — has been clearly diminished by age, but with new racket tech and his God-given gifts, he…

This seems like perfect casting, but boy...does it put ever more of a burden on Tom Hanks and our expectations of him in real-life.

If you’ve read anything about Fred Rogers, he sounds literally too good to be true — but from all accounts it is true. He was decent, kind, faithful servant of God but not remotely…

This is one of my favorite YouTube videos of all-time, and it always astounds me, because it’s like he performed a real-life Jedi mind trick on that congressman.

Mr. Rogers talks in a manner that in 99.9% of the population would be seen as condescending, but in his perfect use of tone and language, it’s clear he is not…

I’m going to pull this out of the greys, because others might think this, and it’s not close.

Serena, like Federer, is recognized by many as the best-ever. Both have had high degrees of success over a very long period (the start and whenever-they-finish their career).

But Serena is nowhere close to Federer in terms of…