Typical of soccer to have an important match decided in a shootout.

My favorite part of the Boaty McBoatface story is that an organization that’s in charge of a $300 million research vessel still thinks, in 2016, that the Internet will handle something responsibly.

As for why they were both so devastated, Travis tells me it’s because they specifically talked about not interfering with a fair ball before the game. “A security guy came up to us before the game started and told us that we’d be kicked out if we touched a fair ball,” Travis said.

I don't see how he can say he's "doing fine" he's wearing an adjustable hat backwards.

Just 23. Too soon. Far, far too soon. I could easily have kicked it around that age, 24. Car crash. I was lucky. But now I know I’m not invincible. Walker could have worn a helmet, could have worn lighter clothing and didn’t. Being that young and especially being a professional athlete carries with it a sense of…

Count the motherfucking clauses in that sentence. Forget the horrifying shit show that was the topic, any editor who let that damn clusterfuck out the door should be fired on the spot for that alone.

I was reading it, thinking “so ok when are they going to say anything at all other than just that everyone who knew Holtzclaw seven years ago thinks he couldn’t have done this.” The last sentence was like the writer thought to himself, “wait oops I can’t sound too much like I’m supporting this guy, throw in a sentence…

It wasn’t a sucker punch. Stop with all of this sucker punch nonsense. It was a street fight, which we can debate the dubious merits of all day long. But a sucker punch is completely different and not something we need to address in this thread.