Some of the most important sports stories ever are important because of their intersection with politics. How do you tell a politics-free version of the story of Jackie Robinson, or the Munich Olympics?

This guy talks so confidently about “the spirit of the rule” in a sport he only follows three times a year.

This is so great, you think you have friends. :)

The context is that Yu Darvish fucked up three guys with a magic fastball

The neat thing about this is it’s the opposite of black magic - it’s extremely easy to do and pretty straightforward. The hard part is just getting the idea.

Of course he’s worth more than (carry the two...) exactly nothing that Michigan State is giving him. But $17k for a year of college is a freaking bargain in 2019 America. He took out a student loan, and student loans suck. He’s making a metric fuckton of cash for his college, which also sucks. On the other hand, he…

I know English probably isn’t Mussolini’s granddaughter’s first language,and Rosa Parks is a strange non sequitur, but why get angry at a drawing of Mussolini hanging upside down? That happened, it’s probably the least bad thing that happened to him after his death.

We live in the most extra of timelines.

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Congratulations on leaving what is easily the most deranged comment I’ve ever received in my year of working at Jezebel lol. 

I’m disgusted, this money could have been spent on football.

I’m old enough to remember when Alvin Gentry was a terrible young head coach for the Pistons in the 90s. It’s nice to see he’s matured into a terrible old coach in the past two decades. 

roughest loss for the Gentry since the French Revolution

I’ve seen more headlines here about Bill Simmons and Barstool than specific sports stories.

In know right? Because supporting apartheid and climate denial are reasonable opinions!

Some of the parts that made me laugh the most where when they weren’t destroying their bodies, though. Like when Johnny pretended to be blind and got in a car and started driving it with his cane out the window.

nah i 100% agree. at it’s best it seemed like a bunch of friends having fun, where the violence had no real world effect. when it operated on cartoon logic, it became, as the article said, a great tribute to that age when you felt like you were going to live forever.

It sounds weird, but there’s something so life affirming about Jackass. Ok, that sounds lame, but fuck it