Lavar made his kid newsworthy. It’s not like they’re showing video of him tripping over his feet in the hallway at school, this is him playing basketball.

There are a couple of differences in the situations you are using as comparisons

I’d watch all those blooper reels too.

When the father is living his dreams out vicariously through his children and making an absolute ass of himself, while using them as his “foot in the door”, then yes, absolutely. For the good of this country I wish for this man to be thrown into the fire, out of the spotlight. It would appear that the only way for…

Is strongly expecting them to flop or at least be way less than expected the same as rooting against them? Because I think their dad’s showboating is going to earn them a lot of “let me at that rookie” moments at whatever level of basketball they play and I kinda think it’s going to be a bit demoralizing.

Is it morally and ethically wrong to root against a child? Yeah, sure, but I’m going to root for all of Lavar’s offspring to crash and burn. I haven’t openly rooted for a child’s demise this much since Dakota Fanning.

Seconded

I think it’s unfair to the readers to mention the Deadspin Slack without actually posting screenshots of the conversations

Oh wow, yeah, it turns out that’s actually all I’ve wanted my entire life.

Looks like a commercial for TRES-MMA

I can’t even tell the teams apart because of those stupid fucking uniforms.

From a Tim Kirkjian article a few years ago about “retaliation”

Harper: [answers phone call from Buster Posey]

No, the appropriate thing to do with the coffeehouse guy is to throw a grinder at him at 98 mph.

I was fortunate enough to meet the man a handful of times. The 1st time was at a Kentucky Derby. I was pretty much in awe and after our 20 minute conversation, as I was driving back from the restaurant, it dawned on me that he asked me 5 times as many questions as I asked him, and was genuinely interested in my…

Strickland is a total goon, yes.

Strickland is a goon.

I’m not going to be so old-fogeyish as to insist that Frank Deford was the last great titan of sports journalism, but goddamn, it sure does feel like it.

Deford was, for me, one of the few (sports) writers who could wax nostalgic about sports of the past and yet not get lost in it.

“Icon” is almost an understatement. Before ESPN and before the web, Sports Illustrated was the primary source of sports stories for many people, and Frank Deford was the king of SI. I (Rob Lowe voice) literally watched for the red flag to drop on our mail box to see when the new issue was delivered.