Well. It’s like this: if every player is a free agent all the time, teams in second-tier markets disappear fast. Average salary goes up, but the total number of players in the big leagues goes down as something like a third to a half of all teams fold outright. Which is bad for baseball players as a professional…

I mean, it’s fair to say that many of the regional wrestling stars like Piper and maybe Albano were “real” in the sense that their wrestling ability was real and they could have won shoot matches had they occurred. It was McMahon that figured out that not only does the WWF/E not need to be paying state athletic…

Joe Rogan always struck me as an earnestly decent with an annoying voice and the unfortunate tendency to buy into whatever line of jive someone’s giving him. Maybe not whole hog, but still the kind of “both sides”-ism that makes mainstream media unwatchable, like his take on 9/11 that there was no conspiracy, but the…

Finding an actress that has enough self respect to handle the role well and also is up for having a boob window is the hard part. In five minutes you could have as many short scenes or throwaway lines to explain it. Easiest is probably just that she wants something provocative and sexy, either to get headlines or just…

Tijuana Tequilas. Fuuuuuuck NFL make this happen!

Is this another one of those “He stole my song!” moments like the time that guy said Macklemore ripped him off because both songs used their synthesizer’s saxophone?

Mothafuckas Touchin’ my Ass.

There is literally nothing a rich man can say that will keep him out of polite society for more than a few months.

The tech companies have been fighting the police and the FBI on this because there’s no way to make a one-off exception for end-to-end encryption. Either your messages are encrypted when they pass through Facebook’s servers or they’re not. If they’re not, then anyone - including your government, every other government,…

Does Marvel currently own the Green Hornet comic book rights? Because, if I recall correctly, in-continuity the ‘modern’ Green Hornet is supposedly the descendant of a Wild-West era vigilante (occasionally the actual Lone Ranger).

1. We had to read “In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson” in grade school. I think that’s as close as it gets to learning sports history, and that’s fine. The main problem with teaching sports history is that the traditional narratives are bullshit, and the factual ones will make people lose interest in sports…

No, but there are people who, if they have (say) $100 to spend on sports, will spend it on trip to one football game rather than 2-3 baseball games.

That’s the entire point of Deadspin’s annual NFL preseason series, Why Your Team Sucks.

It’s ironic, because the countries that can afford to host Olympics and not have them turn into a shitshow are the rich, mostly white counties that everyone complains about monopolizing these events. 

I’d put Rio ahead of Athens. People attribute the Greek debt crisis in part to the Olympics, but the country’s deficit problems didn’t begin with the games, nor end with them, and while they’re now in shambles, at least the infrastructure improvements that went into Athens are still around.

For sure. The real question is, would it have worked with Keaton, had Keaton not already played Batman?

It’s pretentious Hollywood-baiting nonsense, but it’s very well done pretentious Hollywood-baiting nonsense. The ending kind of went off the rails, but that’s what endings do.

This article would be a lot more helpful if it weren’t filled with stock photos of cardboard boxes.

Theory out of the greys: Coaches, rather than the GM or other front office staff, hire assistants. Most coaches have kids in the business, and their worst fear is that their kid ends up being a disappointment (which they mostly are, but whatever). Therefore, they: give their own kids a “starter” job, because all they…

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