"Of course, the NCAA system receives NO criticism here"

Yeah, that was really disappointing. I read it multiple times, hoping that it was a sarcastic piece and I was just missing the tone somehow. Also of note: it was written by a man.

"Yup. If you don't break the law, and you follow the cop's instructions, you'll be just fine!" -Amadou Diallo

When I saw this headline, I assumed you would just be linking to the Chris Rock Show clip.:

"It probably also ought to have meant overhauling an oddball group that only Karl could have worked with."

I just found out this is a Childish Gambino reference, and I can't decide if it was funnier before I knew that or after.

Santiago is dope, and that Roberto Clemente book is criminally under appreciated. I wish he'd chosen another subject (there are already 10,000 books on Jordan), but I'll pick this up.

"Our game plan was to be super confident. Oh, and white. Also white."

Who are Rand Paul and Chris Christie trying to appeal to with this nonsense? It seems like most anti-vaccine folks are upper middle class, aging white hippies in California, the crazy/obnoxious moms in Park Slope, Brooklyn, or belong to some similar group. These people don't vote Republican, so I honestly don't…

I wonder if he'll put it off for a few weeks so he can at least hold his newborn son a few times before having to put his arm in a sling. He seems like the kind of guy who'll be genuinely pissed that he can't help his girl with baby duty early on.

"his first interception last night was particularly horrible … there wasn't a soul near Bobby Wagner"

I still say it's Montana. He went 4-0 in Super Bowls with 11 touchdowns and zero interceptions, which seems impossible. He took the Chiefs — the fucking Chiefs — to an AFC Championship game. But most important, Tom Brady could easily either be 6-0 (which would make him the greatest football player ever) or 0-6 (which…

But that's another reason it's such an awful play call. Why call a play you rarely run against a team that runs it better than anyone? No defense is better prepared to stop that play than the Patriots, because they practice against it so often. Also, the Patriots were one of the worst teams in the league this season…

Everyone will talk about the last call — and, well, they should — but if Lane and Avril don't get knocked out with injuries, Seattle wins and I don't think it's close. With Lane out, the secondary didn't have enough weapons to hold down all the Pats short routes, so they said "fuck it" and started blitzing in the…

I came here to say this. The knock against Tagliabue going to the Hall of Fame was always "well, anyone could have done that job." If anything, Goodell has shown us all that the job requires at least a modicum of competence.

I understand wanting to be green, but as my uncle would have said, they'll waste more wood on your coffin than they will on that brown paper bag.

You know what's fucked up? Reading this, my first strong reaction was "Kamau, you can't buy something and not get a bag! You know better!!" As a black man, I can't stress how often my parents and older siblings drilled into my head the fact that I could never, ever buy anything without getting a bag and, if possible,…

I've been on a Scarface kick all day for some reason. "The Fix" is brilliant, and it's probably only his third or fourth best album.

Everyone at that press conference not named Rachel Nichols should be fired. The embarrassingly soft questions were almost as offensive as Goodell's lies.

There are 32 NFL teams, and seven rounds in the NFL draft. That means 224 players are drafted every year. So, by your logic, the number 224 represents 10-15% of the college football players eligible for the NFL draft each year. That math does not add up.