I think the commissioner holds veto power over any trade to prevent incompetent team management from committing severely unbalanced deals, for the sake of league parity. This isn’t a Herschel Walker-level blunder, but there’s a clear disparity in value, so we’ll see.

“Take care of your kid” and “give your ex half a million dollars or go to jail” are two different things.

Somebody’s been digging through Grandma’s The Who LPs.

I can’t help but share your dread, and I’ve never been more thankful to have skipped bringing children into this spiraling world. I was 10 when the wall came down, but didn’t fully comprehend its meaning at the time. Only now, with a Strangelove-level madman steering us back towards Duck & Cover drills, do I realize…

That’s not because being jeered hurts Goodell’s feelings. It’s because the NFL would prefer to avoid that image. Goodell himself consistently demonstrates his absolute fealty to league owners (or the most influential ownership bloc regarding any specific issue) with no regard to the consequences suffered upon his…

Or an annual marathon, or whatever. Anti-Trump protest marches have briefly interrupted my daily routine many times over the past few months, and I hope they don’t stop until he’s tarred and feathered and run out on a rail. Fuck Sage Steel. The fuck.

Well. There’s two fewer threats on the road. If only every exploding police Crown Vic took the bad guy out with it.

They’re fine if Austin has to spot Chris Paul for five or six minutes. Five or six weeks, fuck no.

Texans are somehow leading the charge here. Not sure if that’s encouraging or what.

This is a heartwarming tale of ownership loyalty, but for Moroni’s sake, if the team is bound to stay there, can’t they come up with a less inappropriate name? Like the “Saints,” or the “Smiles,” or the “Mountain Meadows.”

A fein show of journalistic sleuthing, indeed.

“Missing those games was hard, but not as hard as it could have been. Going 3-1 really relieved some of that pressure. Helped keep me from getting too pumped up over it.”

The NFL has obvious rivalries because you play everyone in your division twice or thrice a year, but only face random other teams once every two or three. In the NBA, you play against everyone, every year, multiple times. And it’s pretty rare that two teams both make the finals in consecutive seasons. So, yes. Rivalry.

Any corner of Kinja that doesn’t just reblog Deep Thoughts by Nolan/Feinberg all day is worth a gander.

The Giants came within one PAT of being the fourth.

PLAYED IN A NBA GAME VS GOLDEN STATE

Prescott will start; Sanchez will play. Apparently Romo begged for a series or two in there somewhere and they’re giving it to him.

Chris and Al sound pretty zoned out in those clips. Their eggnog-induced coma probably wasn’t helped by NBC’s ground-level shakycam experiment.

She’ll fit in just fine on the sidewalks of East Village.

I read it as “don’t fuck around needlessly.” If a real problem exists—as it does—hyperbole and fabrication cause more harm than good. The bare facts work well enough.