As a more casual basketball water I kind of wanted to ask in one of these posts if people thought basketball was in a really good place right now. I seem to remember for a really long-ass time post-Jordan people were treating the game like a walking zombie with the prevailing attitiude that it was just a bunch of…

I watched this game, and the first "shush" came after a field goal drought of all of them. Then the second after another gallery of bricks heaved. Then they wound up losing the game for a variety of reasons, but Smith's shot selection and weird fouls definitely played a part.

Well to be fair, each and one of those people is 100%, incontrovertibly right. The fact that some kids and old people are dying because they cant afford the proper ass medical care is awful. And some of us are sittin in our toastily heated homes on a cold February day drinkin our fair trade coffees and lookin at…

You want a list of all the N64 games that got shitcanned 3 months in due to reassignment of staff or obvious inability to even recoup costs by a completely dark release of an unfinished pile?

The key to this mystery is understanding the difference between "poor, persecuted victim" and "scapegoat". Nobody is saying that A-Rod didn't juice, or that the dozen other players didn't juice either. It's the fact that they've positioned this from day 1 as a problem that mostly started and ended with A-Rod and a few…

The answer is to not write the column at all because it's always a terrible mix of half masturbatory self-congratulations for "making it" and half "I cant actually think of something to write about this week".

Managers not paying players is unfortunately a thing that has happened before (MRN in the NA LCS), various allegations of improper finances in the Korean scene, probably similar in China but I don't follow the region as closely)

What the hell kind of CEO wastes his damn time reading e-mails from the public? About his damn basketball team? Isn't this guy's incredible talent worth thousands of dollars per minute?

I'm interested in what a team's strategy would be in that scenario - it seems one side of the pitch is clearly mud flats while the other looks fine (from this angle) - do you run your offense on the muddy side because it makes the defense more likely to slip and fall, or does it actually harm your ability to make cuts…

Lynch's ongoing storyline of "I'm not talkin!" is way more interesting than any postgame interview has ever been. It's either dumb fluff or questions about game strategy that you can visibly see the coaches/players searching their brains for a way to technically reply without giving away any actual useful information…

Yeah, this is garbage. Every one of the highlights on this site is the same tired old stuff. Guy does something with a basketball or something, Whoop tee doo. Maybe if there were a live penguin instead of a ball, I'd rate this a 3/10.

My favorite kind of highlight. Not super showy or even super athletic (by the standards of NBA players, anyway). But man, the awareness to both make that decision in 0 seconds and get that thing out of his hand before he stepped out of bounds. Majestic.

Unfortunately wouldn't happen, there's no way the NFL would let that thing into the stadium and they'd have a pretty good excuse for why (worrying about the network getting slammed with a fine a la Wardrobe-gate).

No, it's worse. Making a fact correction without a note could just be a boneheaded but honest error. There's only two possible reasons for someone to do this: Chad made the changes himself (or directed an underling) to make himself look marginally more prescient, or someone else changed it and then posted shit to…

That's because he IS better than everyone else at his job. His job is running over fools like they didn't exist. Nobody outside a couple worthless suits in the NFL head office gives a fuck whether he answers the same lame boilerplate interview questions.

"Stick to sports" is basically just saying "I disagree with you politically on something, but being a shithead, I can't actually articulate why"

Well, Thump dies and then you whale.

Osama bin Laden already killed America when the attacks of September 11 changed the whole western world from a kind of fucked up place looking to the future into a paranoid, crumbling system sinking increasing amounts of time, lives, and money trying to "secure" against additional threats when a simple notice telling…

Civilization 5 allows you to play as some of history's greatest monsters straight out of the box - Atilla the Hun, Genghis Khan, Augustus Caesar, Pacal (Maya), Montezuma (Aztec). All of these leaders were responsible for either outright genocide or systematic torture and execution of war captives.

Man, when a FOX network is calling you out on your reporting practices, you know you've taken a wrong turn somewhere.