I won’t post the whole thing (for obvious reasons), but here’s the lede, which I particularly liked:

The man really, REALLY wishes he was born a black kid in NYC and not a boring white Jewish kid from the DC suburbs. It’s palpable in his writing.

It’s senior week, so go ahead and give us that Zirin take

Future Cardinal player

I’m imagining Terence Malick filming this script, stretching it out to 85 minutes - no added dialogue, just long gorgeously framed shots of open countryside, teeming crowds on sidewalks, people jostling through the gates of a ballpark, players going through their pregame rituals, etc., all set to a score somewhere…

(earlier in the day)

Kitchen sink: [falls off, shatters]

+1 here’s what I believe

Wait a minute...Trent Dilfer being bad at his job and things still working out because everyone else on the team is good at theirs? Now I’ve heard everything.

“Robin needs to go into the front office, get put into a headlock and get savagely beaten for us.”

You make a great point, but that meme has brought so much joy to so many people that it’s hard to want things any other way.

Funny how no one who went to Harvard ever talks about their alma mater

Fitzpatrick played quarterback at Harvard. It’s rarely mentioned when talking about him, just thought you’d like to know.

Marky Mark? He of the “I would have stopped 9/11 if I was on one of those planes” boast? Completely full of shit? The hell you say.

Fuck if I know. just because I care about best bear doesn’t mean I cares enough to watch this shit.

“We can’t go to North Carolina. They’re socially backwards and perverted for their stance on what goes on in the bathroom. Let’s go the Penn State.”

Free throws are meant to reward the team that had the foul committed against it and to punish the team that committed the foul. It is a perversion of the purpose if it is used to punish the team that had the foul committed against it. I mean, I understand the “Well, they should shoot free throws better” and “We…

Seems abundantly clear that this was systemic moral depravity and wanton indifference, all the way up and down the ladder. Burn that shit down, and yesterday.

In a case like Dywane and the Heat’s relationship going sour, it’s always important to ask ywh.

Well that’s going to be good for basketball, in the same way that knowing Bruce Willis is actually dead makes watching the Sixth Sense more enjoyable.