I’ve been enjoying that the universal response seems to be, “LOL nah.” Who the hell wants to admit they’re wearing something called Big Baller Brand, anyway?

There’s this weird phenomenon, as a white man approaching middle age, where strangers or people I don’t really know will occasionally feel emboldened to say some gnarly, racist shit to me. Like, a “just between us whiteboys now that all the minorities are out of the room” kind of moment. Aside from always being upset…

A gauloises and a coffee should really rank higher on the list, IMO.

I’m jumping on the bandwagon. There is always room in my heart for massive, hit-into-orbit, dingers. God, I wish he was on the Giants.

Is that how it’s supposed to be pronounced? I always heard it as VLAH-Dee, but basketball media has gotten a lot better at pronouncing foreign players’(sorry Bill Walton, I mean international players) names the past few years, so maybe I’ve been wrong all along?

Totally agree. That was part of why the late 90's/early 00's Kings were a lot of fun to watch. Vlade Divac, Chris Webber and Brad Miller were all excellent passing big guys. The Gasol brothers are both great passers. The Kerr Warriors seem to love to have those guys as well. Bogut was a great passer, and now David…

Aside from all the issues with proving intent, maybe we are at the point where throwing a baseball at someone should be treated like someone swinging a bat. Machado has a point there. Nobody tolerates the idea of a player going Juan Marichal, but throwing a baseball at someone is considered part of the game? Maybe it…

Amazing. As a side note, I love it when these announcers who are sort of generalists have to call a sport they’re clearly unfamilar with, and act like it’s totally within their realm of knowledge. Like Costas calling curling in the Olympics or something.

Once again, I’m impressed by how brave these women have been in coming forward.

The funniest part is that according to PER, this makes the Knicks better.

It all really comes down to Trubisky, right? I mean, the 49ers are laughing now (and they did very well), but Brian Hoyer is their starting QB, and there’s no guarantee they’ll be able to get a franchise QB next year. If Trubisky turns out to be very good, I don’t think it will matter so much that the process to get…

I think it’s fair to allow a dude to vent after a disappointing end to a season, but at the same time, Dwight doesn’t seem to get that it’s not 2008 anymore. He still has plenty of value as a player, but teams are not going to orient their style around him anymore.

Right? For Goodell to equate marijuana policy with the league’s active denial of brain injury risks is offensive and comes across as really passive aggressive.

I think the important point here is that all the NFL has to do is literally stop punishing people for it coming up in their drug screens. It doesn’t require some massive new initiative or anything. Just treat it like they do alcohol. The league can even still make it nominally against the rules if it wants to be…

Sorry, man. Nothing worse than a boss who gives you a clear instruction, and then expects you to know every possible exception or variable.

It does not surprise me at all to learn that he introduces himself as “The Hawk.” Was he a real jerk about it or nah?

He’s a dick. Time and time again he inserts him into these moments that should be special for Lonzo and makes it about Lavar. I bet when Lonzo was about to get laid for the first time, Lavar ran into the room to negotiate the foreplay. I guess it’s possible that Lonzo is truly fine with all this, but I doubt it. It…

Celebrity Scientologists can deny it all they want, but Scientology is very clearly anti-Gay, to say nothing of all the horrific abuses. Just as an example, L. Ron Hubbard wrote that homosexuals are 1.1 on the tone scale (called “Covert Hostility”), a lower position than anger, hate, resentment, etc. LRH’s writings n…

Initiating contact and drawing fouls has long been a major part of Harden’s game, but I don’t remember seeing it happen so often on outside shots, and where the shot is clearly attempted only as a result of contact with the defender. I hope the league addresses this in the offseason. It’s bad enough when he goes foul…

With meat prices having gotten so expensive where I live, I’m always looking for ways to use the cheaper meats/fishes/etc. I had beef hearts in Guatemala City a while back and liked them quite a bit. Do you slice the hearts before marinating/grilling? If so, how thick?