“Well, they called it. Raise the ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”

I think the “[t]his isn’t some touchdown catch botched by the refs in the 3rd quarter or something” gets to why they shouldn’t reverse it. Just because a call at the end is easier to fix doesn’t mean it’s worse or more meaningful. If the refs had gifted Oklahoma State touchdowns in the earlier quarters, would it still…

This makes me think of the concept of a “work to rule” strike. If I were Krenek, I would try to think of something I could do on my property that would infuriate this overly sensitive neighbor that would also be perfectly legal. I normally don’t like the idea of being spiteful and petty, but if the neighbor is going…

I hope Gilliam returned the chopsticks when the hotel brought the Chapstick. If he accepted both he’s probably looking at a 2-year ban, but if it was only Chapstick the NCAA could be reasonable and only suspend him for a season.

I won’t even try to be snarky or clever. This was fantastic, and frighteningly necessary.

Man, I love Zach Lowe’s columns and 85% of his podcasts, but his “guardian of respectable basketball opinion” act on Twitter (and the other 15% of the podcasts) needs to be taken down a peg.

Right, and he’s writing largely for an audience that dislikes or is indifferent to sports. So his primary goal on any story isn’t to find an interesting angle to it, but to fit it into a pre-existing narrative on race or capitalism. And while I mostly agree with his narratives on those things, the “look! Here’s…

Oh man, I really want to read the Zirin takedown. He’s one of those annoying writers where I’ll agree with a few of his pieces, but then realize he’s not a person with real opinions or insights, he’s just chasing a Good Liberal Opinion Haver trophy.

Are you just trying to out-hate-mail Redford? Is there any way you can get the horse people fighting with the soccer people, like in that Bills-Bucs prank call?

Playing the game The Right Way is his 7th tool

Sources tell us that Labaton Sucharow has reached out to former ESPN employees in an attempt to gather information that could be used in a potential class-action suit against Disney.

He (and the Brewers) definitely acted like he’d been awarded home. I couldn't tell if it was because the ball went into the dugout or if the third baseman was called for interference.

One Charlotte franchise owner is perhaps the greatest champion in the history of team sports. The other is a scrub receiver who then did OK with some fast food franchises. So who gets the badass statue and who gets the meme of himself crying?

What’s really going to be obnoxious is if there’s ever a Harvard educated broadcaster who will start talking about how “Fitzpatrick went to college in Boston.”

I wouldn’t have thought this could get worse, but that exchange might be the most damning thing I’ve seen yet in terms of the football program. Like, as bad as the evidence against Paterno is, you could still put the spin on it that the truth was just too horrible for him to believe, so he tuned it out, looked away,…

This makes me weep for the next generation of Americans.

“getting mad at an athlete for making an employment decision is one of the shittiest things a sports fan can do”

“Dude’s just an employee making an employment decision.”

I was stunned when I got to the bottom of this piece and the top comment wasn’t a crying Jordan should wound.

Posted in the wrong spot, just ignore me