The Athletic reminds me of The National, the daily national sports newspaper that hired a ton of excellent writers and just didn’t make enough money because even an avid sports fan can find enough interesting free content that they don’t need to subscribe.

This is one of the greatest posts ever

I’ve never done cocaine. Is it true people like to snort it from between [redacted]? I’ve seen people use dollar bills in movies, but never a rolled-up FOIA request.

internal influencer management division

My wife told me yesterday afternoon that I seemed to be in a happy mood. I sort of wrote it off at first, but then I checked my phone and sure enough, the Jaguars were playing right then.

I feel as though we all did.

So many white New Balance.

It’s like if you took a Nuremberg rally and made it wear cargo shorts.

I have no issues with these fans burning their jerseys as long as they are wearing them at the time.

Swansea is the Central Mass of Eastern Mass.

That quote was actually about Jose Reyes.

And an even larger number of shocked Alabama fans replied, “Wait, this is a school?”

Wow, I had no idea.

“Anytime you hear, “The last person to do this was Barry Bonds,” it’s time to bow down.”

Classic FBI tactic—go after the midlevels, put their balls in a vice, then they croak about what their bosses are doing. Paul Manafort will have to... oops, wrong case?

God was that puff piece by SI last week on Dwight fucking horrible. From Lee Jenkins too. He used to be a great read. SI has become the US Weekly of sports. “You give us access, we’ll write whatever you want.”

“Hey, did you come across a disabled woman out there?”

His job is to play football, not fall in line for a dumb song that has shit to do with football.

No, it’s not strange. The studies are rigorous, with comparison to standards. The comparison with normal brains from non-football people is crucial. They aren’t just looking at football players’ brains and making a biased judgement call. CTE has a very specific set of effects on the brain, and it is progressive. …