That’s a great point — the narrative right now is “LeBron & co are invincible — another Finals is guaranteed!” and just two weeks ago, they were absolutely on the ropes against Indiana. That series was a legit 7-gamer, with close games throughout.

The Raptors have no excuse for getting swept by the Cavs.

Again, I think…

Well, I would say DeMar DeRozan was the main culprit, but sure.

The Raptors didn’t even win one game — for the second year in a row! That’s inexcusable, particularly when Game 1 was against a tired LeBron (who didn’t play well, for him, that game — shooting 12-30) and the Raptors were rested. Yet the Raptors blew a 10…

I like Brookyln 99, but the show’s ratings have notjust “dropped” — they are on the floor.

Similar situation for the Lions.

They drafted in the 3rd round Tracy Walker from UL-Lafayette. It was a big surprise, as that wasn’t the biggest area of need (e.g., DL was bigger) and this guy was expecting to be drafted in the 5th round at the earliest (and quite possibly an Undrafted Free Agent).

I’ve seen this take, and it doesn’t really make sense: if the Pacers were up 2 points, their defense would have been different (e.g., less worried about the 2, on which LeBron had absolutely been killing them all night, and more worried about the 3).

For a tie game, any made shot is a game winner, so there are more…

For those who (understandably) have said that local parents should take their kids elsewhere to some place safer: to give you an idea of how much the good people of Shelbyville, Illinois care about their kids, read this article:

That’s a weird argument. The only reason anyone cares about her statements, one way or the other, is because she is arguing from the position of her authority of being a “big nerd” — a PhD who is a tenured professor at an academic institution.

I see a *lot* of different types of posts & language on Twitter — to pick…

I don’t agree with that (as I said, I don’t blame people’s parents for their decisions as middle-aged adults), even for political families like the Bushes, though you can certainly make that argument.

But she’s not talking about someone on her timeline who didn’t like Beyonce’s Coachella performance or had a movie…

I wonder if the rapturous praise for the 7-seat Lincoln Aviator, along with the “ehhh...that’s good” for the XT4, helped do him in.

Cadillac’s “brand” is still known for being brash and bold, and thus it should dominate that large SUV / CUV space. Where is the rear-wheel drive XT7? Where is the next generation of the…

She’s about to get a hard lesson in how “protected” she is — public institutions rely on public money & support and they can & will cave to pressure. They may not fire her (and I hope they don’t) but they can make her life an administrative hell — restricting what classes she teaches, what institutional support she…

Always confused me as a kid that the big, tough gangster was named “Big Julie” (had no idea it was actually “Jule” which I guess is short for Julius).

But I will say, the actor Stubby Kaye was named nicely.

Williamson was fired because a mob of assholes didn’t want conflicting viewpoints crossing over into a mainstream, left leaning outlet.

Yeah, that’s what I don’t get — each G League team is becoming a AAA club for the NBA club, so how will it work for Bazley?

For example, if he signs with the Grand Rapids Drive, the Pistons don’t automatically get his rights (if I understand how it works) — so why would the Drive sign him? Why would they want to…

Williams was the #20 recruit; Bazley is #8 — so their profile is similar (though, obviously, #8 would likely put you in the lottery while #20 likely would be later 1st round).

I think the main difference is Williams didn’t go to college (University of Memphis) because of grades — and if he couldn’t get into the school…

Sameer didn’t argue “context was irrelevant.” His argument is that the context of “I was just singing along to the words a black person said” is not a sufficient excuse for a group of white people to say it/sing it/rap it/whatever.

I do agree, though, they were not “chanting” it.

Coincidentally, I got caught in a Do the Right Thing click-fest a couple days ago (started when a new “authentic” restaurant in Detroit, operated by an uber-confident white chef, was gently taken to task in the local paper for having a wall of pictures of people representing “Detroit” and the reviewer noticed it was…

That certainly would make a difference — I’m a 24 in screen, so I noticed it right away.

Additionally, they mis-spelled his name (“Stevens”), but I didn’t notice that until just now.

The hand-drawn, black, Yosemite Sam mustache on “Bret Stephens” didn’t give it away?

My buddy and I were foolish enough about a decade ago to try and take a cab, on St. Patrick’s Day, three miles down Lincoln Avenue (a “main” street filled with bars) to get to a pub, John Barleycorn.

It was like we were in a zombie movie. No fewer than 4 drunk people literally walked into and bounced off the side of…

You know who wasn’t blindsided when it came to cocaine? This guy.