What are the proposed methods for preventing 25+ lb cuts? Regulate training weight? Measure hydration at the weigh in? Are there even reliable/standardized hydration measures?

Maybe this is naive of me, but are there any weight-class sports that take measures to prevent dangerous weight loss techniques? I understand that 100 years ago, the only way to enforce weight regulations was with day-of or day-before weigh-ins, but in the modern era, with many sports adopting randomized…

Maybe the guy with a brain injury isn’t the best judge of whether he has a brain injury.

I’ve been using this method (really, I’ll do anything Kenji tells me to do when it comes to food), but the broth wasn’t as beefy as I liked when I first started. The last time I made stew, I took about a third of my beef and let it cook for a long time, and the other two thirds I seared and then added with the…

And keep in mind that there are multiple ways you can up your income. Maybe it’s picking up extra shifts at an hourly job. Maybe it’s changing careers. Maybe it’s doing odd part time jobs like driving an Uber, delivering pizza, or developing a side gig like a blog or consulting business. Or maybe it’s just doing your…

It sounds like you’re pretty skilled at picking stocks. Have you considered working for a professional investment firm? That will probably up your income a lot more than trading your own account will.

The g forces on the turns wouldn’t have been particularly bad. G forces on a fixed curve are proportional to the square of velocity. If you’re going down the track in a non-bobsled, you’re not going even half as fast as an olympic bobsledder, so the g forces should be 25% as much. Cornering at 1g is still a thrill,…

Does anyone else think it’s weird that they ask one question and then interpret that as “consent” for something else entirely?

Names. I want names in these stories. The city council didn’t vote for anything, city councilors did. I want to know who those people are.

As a non-famous person who used to gamble way too much at casinos, they’d call my bank and verify the balance before granting me a line of credit. Then, when I’d take out a marker, the thing I’d sign was technically a check drawn on that account.

I’m trying to figure out what my next financial goal should be. I’ve been pretty good about setting and reaching financial goals up to this point, but I don’t really see any good short- or medium-term goals to aim for from here. I’m in my early 30's, and I’ve got a 1-year-old kid, a 30-year mortgage with 29+ years…

In practice, that rarely happens.

As part of the Bid, the Fire, Police, and Emergency Management Departments signed letters of assurance to not seek reimbursement from the NFL for providing additional public safety services in support of public events related to the Super Bowl.

What’s with high school athletes shoving stuff up freshmen’s assholes? I mean, I get that this kind of shit has been happening for a long time, and it used to just be “boys will be boys,” but shit like this has been making national headlines for a couple of years now, with the people directly involved going to jail,…

What does LeBron biffing on a dunk have to do with Steph Curry having an off moment?

Personally, I think refs should have broad discretion to judge whether a foul is necessary. Other sports have ways around the intentional-foul problem (playing the advantage in soccer or rugby, delayed penalties in hockey, declined penalties in football), but basketball, for some reason, has embraced it as part of the…

I’m not sure whether you’re saying that Tetris doesn’t really require planning, or that it does. But I think the life/tetris analogy holds up when it comes to planning.

Well, that depends. Sometimes it will. It might not move the needle all the way from “unhappy” to “happy,” but the right thing can make a pretty big difference. I just moved from a small apartment to a big one, and it’s taken a tremendous amount of stress out of my life.

I just moved, and starting the new year with an empty DVR is brutal enough that I wound up flipping around prime time network shows just to see what was on. The alphabet-soup cable channels (TBS, USA, TNT, FX, and the like) always have something on, but I swear they somehow re-edit the shows to fit 15 minutes of ads…

I replied to the stupidest part of the comment. And this story isn’t being covered as “look what the cops did,” it’s being covered as “look what Chandler Jones did.” When the headline changes to “cops covered for Chandler Jones,” I’ll agree that that’s the story, but that’s not what this story is.