Besides woefully underwriting the drama of what happened here (Carter has been the best US women’s shotputter for over a decade, was excellent in high school, finished 12th in Beijing and 5th in London, and yesterday was down to her last throw, needing an American record to win), her father actually won silver in Los…

I don't follow this enough to know the history of Cormier being insufferable and needy but holy shit he seemed like a boring cry baby the whole time who just wanted to crush silva to death instead of fighting him. When silva is fifty six and coming off one day of training you need to fight like a man not this…

Decisions don’t make fights boring, just look at the epic Strawweight championship fight the night before, and I’d argue Aldo/Edgar was the fight of the night. However, I do admit that they can often come across as really weird if you don’t follow the sport regularly. Which becomes a problem on a card really directed…

He’s fought at 205 a few times, including against former Light Heavyweight champ Forrest Griffin.

If anyone can show Trump how to force his way into Washington, it’s gonna be Mike Tyson.

This Deadspin fascination with hot take posts and comments on Bill Simmons reminds me of Jezebel’s Lena Dunham infatuation.

It’s goaltending After it hits the backboard....and touching the rim is fine if ball is not on it or above the cylinder....knew a rule or 2 before making assnine comment

You actually don’t know what you’re talking about.

LeBron is way the best basketball player in the world, and has been for every moment of his NBA career.

Nope. He became the first player to have the most points, rebounds, assists, blocks, and steals for either team in an NBA Playoffs series. And for Skip’s tweet, here are the stats for LeBron and Kyrie for the last four games of the series:

I dunno, an important part of being a true professional in any field is the ability to objectively analyze successes and failures.

Lebron also gets slapped and hacked on a constant basis, but he’s so big and strong that he blows through it, which makes the refs ignore the fouls. If Curry got touched up the way Lebron does when he drives to the basket, he’d be out for a week.

Its also worth pointing out how incredibly dumb (on Curry) most of Curry’s fouls were last night. He went and jabbed his hands into places he had no reason to jab them, out of sheer exasperation mostly, and put the refs in this position where they can either call a ticky-tack, but absolutely accurate foul, and get…

But fouls are fouls. Why does it matter who makes them?

He means he should have 1 fewer championship (his ‘98 ring). He realizes that Curry needs the same preferential treatment Jordan got in order to get rings.

Question for Basketball Aficionados: What does Steve Kerr mean when he says “the MVP of the League” shouldn’t be getting called for touch fouls?

+1

Sports narratives are super lazy, and yeah, they kinda bum me out too.

After that Thunder series, you folks in glass houses might not want to be so quick to pick up the stones.

I'm gonna have to get some blood pressure meds after all this salt.