Seriously, sportswriting 101.

so close to becoming an asshole

Paying a 35 year old 8 figures is less of a good idea than it was 20 years ago.

40-year-old Kenyon Martin never overlapped with Kristaps Porzingis in the NBA and as such would have had some difficulty blocking his shots this season.

They were compensation for his brother-in-law’s car!

New OC’s first move: Trade for Jordan Mills.

Exactly what we all should have expected, right? I mean, he does have certain well-known tendencies. When presented with an appealing target like Harrison, a cat like this is just gonna wait for the right moment before ... oh, what’s the word?

This is fucking San Francisco

So no comma? Should it should read “knowledgeable grammar guy CommanistSympathizer said that . . .”?

Pedantic, but not incorrect.

This is maybe my favorite scene in a terminally underrated comedy.

Prediction: This comment will be underrated.

Speak for yourself.

Peralta’s board of trustees told Chancellor Jowel Laguerre to discontinue talks with the A’s

Goodness, you’re excellent for posting THAT. Paul Masvidal (and Sean Reinert) FTW.

Necessarily? I guess not, unless you see something in the text that specifies what “free” refers to. Blackstone uses the phrase “free state” to refer to autonomous countries in which the citizens enjoy some amount of liberty (“In a free state every man, who is supposed a free agent, ought to be in some measure his own…

No, but you do see it all over state constitutions from the same era. The short answer is probably that the framers a) wanted to include a justification (not a qualification), and b) they cribbed the phrasing.