Yes, but for instance, the two games I really wanted to see were NY-Pittsburgh, and Chicago-St. Louis. I got to see them both. This was the only way that would happen. Necessary evil.

It’s not for no reason, unless you think the Hawks and Blues are the only teams in the playoffs. The late start allows NBC to show every game of every series—a hockey fan’s dream and a gift for fans of other teams in the playoffs.

I’m inclined to disagree. The late starts are a pain in the East and Midwest, but they make it possible to have every playoff game televised. In the old days that people pine for—when ESPN did hockey or before NBC took over all of it—you had to hope that your team was one of generally half the series that would get…

God it took me four beats to comprehend. May riches be yours.

How is it different? The octopus is a single thing thrown in a way it’s not going to hurt or endanger a player. The rats are thrown after a goal and are highly visible and swept up. The players don’t feel endangered by them. Plus, they are now calling penalties for the rats, so there you have the answer you want/

The willpower part is hard, but unlike most of us, he has the means and the time to just check himself in someplace and clean up rather painlessly

That you proved the point: Gambles can pay off. They can also lose.

How about the fight between Shaw and Dumba, where both players were landing blows to the others’ skulls? And every other fight in hockey? And every time a swung stick glances off a helmeted skull? If you want to prosecute every instance of contact to the head, say so, but don’t pretend that Keith’s swing was…

You are pretending to think that Keith’s one-handed swing was as egregious as the McSorley incident, and you seem to think repetition of “skull” clinches your point. It doesn’t.

You are right, but “to avoid injury” is vague for a rule—even though that is what he was doing there.

It’s also a technical because 250 pounds hanging from the rim is not good for the apparatus, which is attached to the backboard at one contact point.

It’s not the refs’ job to ensure a player can make his dunk safely.

If you can’t do the dunk without hanging, don’t dunk. It’s a technical regardless of your excuse.

But it is a name that was passed down through men.

Your article falls short of your headline. In your headline, a Nixon adviser admits to something. In your article, a guy claims a Nixon adviser admitted to something (in an impressively precise quote. I couldn’t open the Harper’s piece; was the statement recorded?). The latter account is your accurate head.

“All with the same end in mind: if you make it difficult or expensive enough to consume tobacco, hopefully less people will use it, bringing health care costs down for everyone.”

This is good advice, but it won’t work for everyone. I took up running as a beginner, and just when my cardio fitness started to improve, I started getting soreness around and below the knees. After a run one day, this progressed to near crippling pain that lasted for weeks and made walking difficult. Went to sports…

If so, that could force teams to expose some players they really don’t want to lose.

You’re being disingenuous about sniffing at the use of “discipline.” The guy doesn’t have leukemia. If he wants to be a football player, he has to stop smoking weed all the time. Whether that involves getting appropriate help to deal with a problem, or just saying, “I’ve got to stop getting high all the time,” he…

I think it was the coroner who called them that.