Dwight Howard was once one of the most likable and respectable superstars out there, and then he somehow managed to undo this all at once. Given another chance to do the same thing, I’m not even sure he could re-create an accomplishment like that on purpose.

The show’s storyline is weak, relative to Seasons 1-3, but at the same time, so is the source material, relative to the first couple of books. There is no Ned Stark beheading/Battle of Blackwater/Red Wedding type event, and anything like that is still unresolved in the books (as the show deviates further - one thing…

American Idol peaked in Season 1, and was still decent for a few years but had a steep, steep dropoff after Season 4 (I can be generous, and include Jordin Sparks). There was nothing going on after that and after a while even my wife, the super-fan who screamed obnoxiously like an intruder burst into the house when…

Touche, sir.

That was my point and I started going into that in the second paragraph but deleted it b/c I mentioned Ray Rice and that’s beating a dead horse. But that’s the basis of all my criticism of Goodell - he made it very clear when he took over for Tagliabue that he was going to make “discipline” a major priority and he was…

The league doesn’t actually care about this, they just need to maintain the appearance that they do. They suspended Sean Payton for a whole season based on less evidence, so they had to do *something*.

When I reach out to catch something I use my left hand, it’s something my body has done tens of thousands of times unconsciously. With my right hand it feels unnatural, the only time I do that is when barehanding, though not as unnatural as throwing with my left hand. It looks pathetic.

“He caught it with his left hand; he’s a righty.”

it’s kind of funny how people complain about how “long” the baseball season is when hockey and basketball are actually even longer.

Yeah, when someone calls San Antonio “slow” or “boring” that is close to a de facto admission they don’t actually watch basketball.

I don't... um, what just happened here?

I really give people the side eye about Josh Gordon, when they do their “you’re making millions of dollars” lecture when the *majority* of NFL players do it too. Sam Hurd used to smoke every day, and notice the drug test is not what actually got him in trouble, nor the dozens of players he shared with. The real…

Phil Emery understood the whole concept of scouting and analytics in intricate detail and could explain it like it was a science, but it seemed like he lost sight of the fact he was dealing with actual human beings that needed to be managed accordingly, rosters aren’t just pieces with numeric values you can shuffle…

that's a good question. I can't tell. I have no idea what they'd be doing out there though.

Us White Sox fans are pretty much the bastard stepchildren of the Midwest, there's actually a fair number of us but Cubs fans outnumber us by at least 2:1 and we aren't well-represented outside of the most dense parts of Cook County.

These guys have always existed, it's just ever since the Wilson/Brown incident they've given up any pretense and they let their freak flags fly.

This thing has gone national, and it's my hope that the rest of the nation can see how toxic Chicago sports media is. The callers sound like someone's drunk, racist uncle.

A great deal more energy than should be necessary has been spent on Twitter explaining to people how and why this is not ok. Anyone who's spent more than 5 minutes in corporate America understands this. It's pretty cut and dry. Makes me wonder how some people remember to breathe.