Scoring in a World Cup is personal as much as it is for the benefit of the team. Mallory Pugh scored the eleventh goal, and it was her first ever goal in a World Cup (in her first World Cup game). Alex Morgan tied a USWNT record. It’s always a big deal to score in a World Cup, and these players are allowed to…

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Dark Phoenix is one of those stories that has a massive reputation among comic fans of a certain age but which doesn’t actually hold up very well in 2019 (see also: Killing Joke, The.) The problem is that its two big hooks are “a superhero turns evil!” and “a superhero dies!” Those were novel and shocking turns in…

Cool, people like me with soy allergies would get sick and have no idea why. Changing a person's order without asking or informing them is stupid and dangerous. 

“Look, if I can’t push around the labor literally, then what’s the point in owning a franchise?!”

Katrina is also a good option.

Russia should just make a series called Flint.

By the way, thank you for your service on the beaches of Normandy, 75 percent of a century ago today.

ESPN was one of the only outlets that I remember having an actual ombudsman like that. Without that sort of position, what kind of processes do other outlets use to evaluate themselves internally? For example, how does Deadspin/GMG make sure you guys aren’t falling prey to the sort of insular thinking that has really…

Wonder Woman: Ragnarok

This is excellent Kinja.

What’s not excellent Kinja?: how top-starred comments have not been appearing at the top. It’s been happening a lot lately.

over the decades, i’ve actually consumed the oeuvre of all of the above mentioned directors and that of quite a few more along the way, spanning the gamut italian filmmaking and encompassing everything from high concept visions from auteurs, straightforward action comedies (american never had anyone like adriano…

Bike riders are easily the worst. Fuck those clowns n their Lance Armstrong cosplay outfits all bombing down the rail trail at a whopping 15 mph like they’re training for the Tour so they can go to the craft brewery later and sit around in their too-tight shorts trading Strava readings while complaining that the IPA…

Hunter: “IT WAS A HARD DRIVE-UHHH TO THE GNC-UHHH! MY WIFE ALMOST CYCLED OFF-UHHH!”

It didn’t feel like a step up though, is my issue. The flashbacks were a pointless slog, just about carried by the acting; and they halted the show’s momentum.

Felicity Huffman playing a character determined to bend the system to achieve the outcome she desires?  That is some uncanny casting.  

Wait, what? Dick Wolf’s L&O series are full of innocent people nearly hounded to death by eager cops, without a single word of remorse when the guilty is finally found.

It’s all in the service of ‘getting the scum off the streets’. It’s EXACTLY the mentality that resulted in real life cases like the Central Park Five.

On one hand, this is clearly unintentional base on the speed, choice of pitch, the body language of the pitcher (dejected, staring at hand), the reaction of the catcher, the score and situation, etc. Ridiculous he was tossed out for throwing at someone.

This is precisely the correct audience for such a joke.

DoN was the first time in quite a while I watched something wrestling-related that I could just feel in the moment was A Big Deal (and not having Michael Cole in my ear marveling at “what an historic moment” I’m watching certainly helped).