Exactly. Chip is far more likely to benefit from the transfer portal than suffer negative consequences. He isn’t bringing in many players who will have better options and his system is attractive to highly talented but under-utilized players at other schools.

Serena essentially has unassailable, Beyonce-like status here. It’s really a fascinating thing.

It’s called humility. Steffi is not going to sit there and say at 50-years-old, “No.  I’m the best ever.” I don’t think she gives a fuck.  It’s not like she’s really stopping and thinking out that question.

Seriously? Yes, if you got 1964 Margaret Court out there with her wooden racket to play 2010's Serena Williams, what the fuck do you think is going to happen? Completely different eras with different equipment, training, conditioning, etc. I think that’s a terrible way of trying to compare. Any woman in the top 100…

Agree. Stop projecting your particular worldview or agenda onto a group individuals who you know little about other than, “They are good at a sport.” Being a successful athlete and a shithead usually go hand-in-hand for men. I’m sure the same is often true for women.

After projecting their own particular brand of feminism onto a team for the last month, Deadspin gets to deal with the fact that these women are actually individuals who have different points of view and don’t all care about the things that Deadspin wants them to care about. For example, it is entirely possible…

>>He’s pretty consistently owned Roger for awhile<<

Sure. I’m definitely not suggesting that the narrative should be that Federer is the “winner” in the rivalry. I see the rivalry as being pretty dead even.

Very true. But Federer-Djokovic is only 25-22 Djokovic, and I feel like the narrative with that rivalry is much less “hot-takey” than Federer-Nadal. The story is simply that Federer owned Djokovic until the latter hit his prime in 2011 and Federer’s “decline” began. Even though Djokovic is only a year younger than…

On avoiding Rafa on clay: Admittedly, I am biased toward Fed....but I have always said that much of the narrative around this rivalry hinges on whether or not Federer is good enough on clay to advance far enough to lose to Nadal. I would love to see how people talked about Federer and this rivalry if he had been like…

It is amazing. BUT... usually the all-time greats have someone who can eventually take the torch away from them after they get old. In tennis, it’s usually that the greats eventually hit a point where they just can’t keep up and a generation of younger players surpass them. I think Federer and Nadal are the two…

Eh...I get your overall point: Yeah, the match was a little closer than the score suggests. But what you said is kind of like looking at a World Series that ended in 5 games where the losing team won a game 9-1 but lost 4 games by 2 runs and saying, “They scored the same number runs in the series.” Yeah...but that’s…

Love your tennis coverage, Giri. I’m not really seeing how Nadal being difficult to finish was so noteworthy, though. As you said, it looked like Federer was being a little too cautious while trying to close it out and Nadal hammered some mistakes. He’s really, really good. That’s what really, really good tennis…

Let’s get this out of the way: Ben Shapiro sucks.

>>was saying just yesterday that the NCAA is 100% the reason why the development on the men’s side is such garbage (and thus the USMNT struggles and MLS is probably a 3rd-tier league); it monopolizes most of the talent in the 18-22 range but doesn’t develop it in any meaningful way.<<

I’m on board with the “exploiting student athletes” criticism when it comes to football and men’s basketball. Every other sport (including the other men’s sports) is a complete financial drain to the university, and those players are unquestionably getting more out of the schools and the NCAA than those parties are…

Not a big soccer fan but yeah, I’m a little confused how the US going undefeated in back-to-back World Cups after failing to win 3 in a row = everyone is catching up to the US.  Maybe the writer explains it but I’m not about to read a Deadspin article, especially from this guy.

>>but he is also the guy that brought in all the luchadors in the mid-90s and built up the WCW Cruiserweight division.<<

Yeah, Biden’s response was disjointed and obviously (and unbelievably) not rehearsed. The question seemed to catch him off-guard—which is...baffling. But he did the politician’s “mischaracterizing my position” line, muddied the water with the positive bits of his record on race, and threw in a dig on Kamala being a…

There’s a happy medium. First, I’d say that because there are so many candidates in the debate, we hear less from each candidate—several of whom may be great candidates or at least have valuable ideas but we never learn more about them. Second, look no further than Trump in 2016 to see what can happen when too many…