no amount of spit shine can save every Kaden or Aiden or Braden

I used to work at a place where the owners constantly complained about the travails of lacrosse for their kids. Like, other parents would intentionally get their kids held back a year so they’d be better at lacrosse than the younger kids they were on a team with (but then more people started doing it, so it had…

Reminds me of an ivy league admissions officer who wrote an essay about 10-15 years ago about personal statements.

How many of these kids freak out when they realize how much the bar got lowered for them in high school so their parents wouldn’t sue their school for giving them anything lower than an A+?

I also read piece when it came out. The idea of getting your kid into a niche sport to boost their chances of being accepted by an elite university struck me as something that probably worked reliably well 10+ years ago, but which now has too many people trying to exploit it, and so its success rate is dropping.

Twitter won’t allow me to message you unless I give them my cell number. I’d like to ask if you’d be interested in a story involving the rape of two African-American girls, covered up by white police officers, ignored by white congressional leaders but the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights took interest in it.…

“The MLS”

*chef's kiss*

And despite your corporate overlords telling you to stick to sports, I hope Deadspin never does because

and I can’t emphasize this enough

I come to Deadspin BECAUSE YOU DON’T JUST STICK TO SPORTS

Bless Ray Ratto.

Great, the last thing we need is a clog in the development pipeline.

Pretty sure Bill Clinton has the most famous victory cigar of all time.

In Beijing, LeBron just trademarked “Tacko Tuesday” at the (Chinese) National Intellectual Property Administration and filed a complaint against the Knicks for tampering.

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MLB instructed the home team to wear alternate jerseys so the president is the only obvious white national in the stadium.

Ditto for JP Dellacamera at the 99 World Cup

Too much of mom’s chili