You don’t. You can put more robust revenue-sharing mechanisms in, and you can still negotiate max contracts to prevent the Lakers from offering the top free agents $60M/yr every summer, but artificially depressing what the players are paid so that some dipshit hedge fund billionaire doesn’t bankrupt himself playing…

White America’s fixation with Asians is... interesting.

Asians are the wealthiest race in the world

And for fuck’s sake, register and vote.

All the people saying that Hogg is such a terrible person for what he’s doing to poor little Laura can, in the truest sense, go fuck themselves.

So wait, after all this time the ancient Chinese secret was to use a damn blowdryer to prep your food first!?! Then why the hell have I been wasting my time using Calgon detergent for anyway?

Portrait mode is not admissible in court.

Wellesley needs her more than she needs Wellesley.

I know this is a tough one, but your colleagues and bosses will respect you more if you fix this.

Mcarcs10,

Agreed, but it also benefits the NCAA dramatically and they are essentially business partners with the NBA.

She’s been radicalized, and is a danger to her community. Who knows what her next step for her would be: killing a friend’s parents, shooting up a country music festival, applying to be a sheriff’s deputy....

I don’t see the point of your fancy statistics. That was Kyle Orton’s team and was, in fact, Kyle Orton’s league as long as he was in it. We all just didn’t realize it at the time.

Come on, man, any Deadspin person worth his salt knows it was Kyle Orton’s team, because this used to be Kyle Orton’s world, back when we were great again.

Rock chalk.. go fuck yourself. Butler plays in a more competitive league.

The inability to achieve a perfect result isn’t a reason to do nothing. Her point was that they faced a choice with the handbook: minimize sexual abuse or minimize liability. They chose wrong.

The Root’s own Jason Johnson has some words on 45's … behavior … under these circumstances - which is good, because I’m having a hard time mustering any

But why wouldn’t they play? By no means am I arguing the NFL is some model for how society should be, but these guys are protesting a non-football thing. What would happen if they didn’t play, besides getting their pay docked? And because we’re talking about the NFL, if the player isn’t a superstar they probably get…

I think a lot of people are misunderstanding this. It’s anti-racism, pointing out the long history of racism in America. It’sa message to people who want to pretend that some of the racist stuff happening lately are out of the blue, and not a part of a long sad tradition in this country.