You guys rag on Simmons, but then you rip off his idea of covering the NBA!

Good question for Drew’s next Funbag — would you rather have a line drive (1) kill you or (2) make you look like Ben Roethlisberger?

What a downfall for Amy Pascal, from head of Sony to writing transcripts of First Take.

But none of those things are competitors for a kids time the way video games are. Kids aren’t being faced with the choice of “should I go shoot hoops or enter a spelling bee?” on a daily basis the way they’re faced with the choice between athletic activity and video games. So I can understand the concern that video…

Reggie Miller finds these comments offensive to Steph Curry.

I was going to ask that they cross-post this to Jalopnik so someone could explain what the hell he was talking about. Thank you.

The irony of this post is that John Calipari is the Gawker Media of college basketball — a participant in a corrupt system, subject to the same pathologies of his colleagues, but more tolerable because of his refreshing honesty about the fact that he only exists to sell ads.

Have you advocated for Deadspin to stop covering the NCAA? I know a lot of your coverage is critical, but there’s also a lot of “what a great game!” “check out this play!” coverage as well. And I’m guessing you still sell ads on those posts?

This one doesn't strike me as the typical "person who takes themselves too seriously getting way too upset about something trivial" e-mail you guys normally run. This seems like someone deliberately antagonizing the uptight/socially awkward guy in the office. There really is no good reason for not paying up for 9…

"I don't want to say something that I'm going to regret," offered up CSU's Larry Eustachy.

It's amazing that someone who claims to be so reverent about basketball history would be so shameless about inserting himself into every aspect of it (while claiming to be delivering the definitive history). It would be like if the gospels was just a constantly updated ranking of Mark's favorite miracles and parables.

A friend of my and some of his friends ended up next to Walton on the ferry from Catalina (Walton was returning from a long bike ride). They struck up a conversation, and Walton seemed genuinely interested in getting everyone's story and talking about what they did. When my friend mentioned going to grad school at…

I don't think it's so clear from the Chronicle piece that anyone violated federal law. You have the allegations getting reported up the chain, and then you hit a wall of no comment and confidentiality. It's possible that there was an investigation conducted (that the Chronicle's source wouldn't be aware of) and that…

It's hilarious to imagine some mild-mannered accountant waiting in the wings, half-dreading and half-begging for the scenario for where he has to save the integrity of the Oscars in front of tens of millions of people.

Penn State students/alums were insufferable about THON (yes, it's a worthy cause, but constantly patting yourself on the back undermines your nobility) long before the Sandusky story broke, but since then it's become a club to wield against anyone that suggests, hey, maybe Joe Paterno should have done more to stop…

Sabathia said he's talked to Andy Pettitte about how to get hitters out once the fastball goes, "

So, the advantage to the massive human rights violation that is the Qatar World Cup is that the massive human rights violation that is the NFL will give us something to do other than pretend to care about soccer for a month.

There's kind of a problem inherent in Zirin's beat. He writes a sports column for a magazine/website not geared towards sports fans. When there's the right political angle to a sports story, he can be brilliant, but too often it seems like he's shoehorning self-congratulatory liberal narratives onto the sports story…

I would think shorter career lengths is a big part of it. Are you going sacrifice 1/4 of your career for a contract that will barely even benefit you, if at all?

"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done."