I remember seeing a stat mot long after Tamir Rice’s murder that 83% of police brutality complaints were filed against 6% of the cops.

I read Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me recently, and was struck by his purposeful use of the word body, over and over. To have your body taken away, to have black bodies stolen. That was a strong reminder that this is a violent physical thing that happens to real people, and not some abstract thing from…

What just floors me- and it shouldn’t, I should be used to it, but it does, is that there are two instant reactions I see from a certain group of people whenever these tragedies happen:

And in answer to your headline, yes, I’m afraid you will. It breaks my heart that a part of me is grateful that my son inherited his father’s light skin tone instead of my own.

Actually I’m a Freddy Adu fan.

Things Ronaldo is better at than Messi:

Aside from sports championships, Three Mile Island here - grew up in Western PA

I love the fact that you were already 6 years old when MLK was killed and yet still have the word “fart” in your username.

Gulf War and 1992 election for sure. I remember Saddam Hussein stuff a lot. Also the Texas governor’s race where Ann Richards lost. 31. I don’t disclaim being a millennial or whatever, but I don’t think Barry’s cutoff makes sense since the 2 events he uses are 15 years apart and a lot of stuff happened between them.…

Croatia/Serbia war. Saw a Newsweek in the dentist’s office and asked my mom about it. Her immediate tears is also my first memory of learning about our Croatian heritage.

Bonds had three 40+ homer seasons before steroids were even a thought and had 37 in the strike-shortened 1994 season, his all around game may have masked it a bit but Bonds was always a top power hitter

Did Bonds ever have any issues with anyone outside of Jeff Kent and Andy Van Slyke? It seems more likely in retrospect that the issues that got hung on Bonds were more likely on the other guys- I saw Kent on survivor and he came across as a prick there and I vaguely remember something prick-ish coming out of Van Slyke…

I say the same thing about Madison Bumgarner.

For all his difficulties with his fellow players during his career, I’m finding post-retirement, post-American steroid freakout, post-return to baseball Barry Bonds to be a revelation. He offers legitimate insights into both player dynamics and the technical side of baseball elements, and genuinely seems to be…

Barry Bonds could still win the home run derby if he wanted to.

Way to bury the lede: a professional football player drives an Impala? What is this, 1962?

Ted Kennedy wanted him to get out of the car and run.

No one feels bad for the cardinals.

Hot take: ban fan voting.