To me, the greatest problem with this story is that Scheffer didn’t face a significant penalty for publishing that chart and those pictures. I know, I know, (lawyers can stand down) he apparently didn’t break any laws by doing this (at least that’s what I understood from reading lawyers here at the time) but I feel…

The refs should re-read their own rulebook. It’s a delay of game when the defender crosses the out of bounds line. It’s an immediate technical in the last two minutes. http://www.nba.com/analysis/rules…

I increasingly agree with you. It isn’t. They get millions, we get a season-long thrill, and the overall toll is devastating.

If there’s a Tom Selleck film about Colonial Australians genociding the aboriginals, and a Tommy Lee Jones film where he’s a blackbirder, then it’s not precisely a secret.

Alternate Fox News Headline:

Excuse for using your joke as a jumping point, but it’s no coincidence that two of the more thoughtful, provocative voices on police violence are Greg and Bomani, two journalists who are nominally in sports, for the same reason it took a threatened boycott by a football team to make Mizzou a national story.