In fairness, the NBA at least recognizes the season is too long. Like, coaches and players acknowledge the existence of “DNP-Rest” and “schedule losses”...and even the league doesn’t pretend to care unless it’s incredibly egregious and/or a showcase game.

Actually, most (all?) teams do have sports psychologists on the payroll either directly or contracted out. And every Player’s Association has plenty of services available as well.

Energy industry executives actually should want to testify before the committee without a subpoena, because they should want to get their views in the record. The committee can use that to request certain documents they think will be helpful to their mission. And if they refuse to testify, any report supporting…

Great article. I haven’t really understood why people have been making such talk about this in the past couple of days. Does LeBron want to play with AD? Yes, he does...but I’m sure he would also like to play with Kevin Durant, James Harden, Steph Curry, 2003 Tim Duncan or 1985 Larry Bird.

I’m pretty sure that many coaches just wrote that off as “yeah, but he’s got Aaron Rodgers; of course you should go for it when you’ve got a first-ballot Hall of Famer at QB”.

Good question. Haven’t seen the math, but I would intuitively guess the percentages actually favor going for the win.

But, but, but...I was told it would be the best wall. A towering wall of power. A wall that would singlehandedly make our country great again. A wall so imposing that the Great Wall of China would feel inadequate. A wall so flawless that not even a housefly could cross the border without full permits.

he seems like he could just be burnt out more than anything, as if he might not actually enjoy playing basketball all that much.

“Never give up on your dreams”.

Agreed. I don’t think VR is really at the level yet where it merits an item of its’ own on a State of PC Gaming post. At some point*, it probably will be, but I just don’t think it’s reached anywhere near that level of mainstream/widespread acceptance.

Because saying “NFL stadium in Glendale” is a lot more clear than saying “State Farm Stadium”, which is basically meaningless to like 98+% of readers*.

Agreed. ‘Benevolent ownership’? Like...has he not read a single story about the journalism industry in the past five years? There’s no particular reason to assume the benevolent ownership you currently enjoy will be there six months from now, much less forever.

I would like to apologize to the White Sox for forgetting that they still exist.

You’d think Sarver would be flush with money given how much money he saved by NOT putting forth effort to win titles in the mid-2000's.

I was excited about the Warfronts initially because they described them as being almost an RTS-style hybrid type of thing, which sounded like a really refreshing diversion from the typical PvP battlegrounds. I never got far enough to try them. Are they really like that or was that just hype?

Is there a person out there who’s only had to make one trip to a Home Depot when doing a house project? If I go once, I’m going at least 3 times, no matter how simple the task.

he remained 0-for-2 with no rebounds or assists, raising early concerns that he was headed for another 15 trillion box score line.

Agreed, especially your last point. Like, in Hollywood, there’s basically no such thing as a gunshot wound - you’re either dead nearly instantly or you shrug it off and completely forget about it within three minutes. When in reality, even a hit to a non-fatal area like the shoulders means pain, surgery, months of phys…

I don’t think you can make a guess to that detailed of a level, actually.

One minor correction - ESPN is reporting Washington is actually getting Dekker as a third team, in exchange for a straight swap of future second round picks - Washington gets Cleveland’s 2021 second rounder in exchange for Washington’s 2022 second rounder. Not really sure why Washington bothered since second rounders…