Sports Journalism 101

Sevens is the Arena League of rugby.

It’s the NFC. Mediocre and not making huge mistakes is enough to get you to the playoffs two years out of three. Hell, it won Eli two Super Bowls.

This should be required reading for any GM whose plan is tank their way into a good draft pick to turn the team around. Your best case scenario is probably the Sixers, who started the season with two #1s and a #3, and are currently 6-8 in their division and have consistently underperformed against expectations.

The list of champion QBs the Jags have had before is actually really short:

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VAR is pointless. If you’re worried that refs will make bad calls, put chips in the balls and everyone’s shoes and use RFID to determine when it goes in the goal or out of bounds, or if someone was offsides

R.Kelly’s problem is his big heart doesn’t have a bullet in it.

Let’s pre-emptively remember some guys!

The worst wine people are the ones like Paul Giamatti’s character in Sideways, whose snobbery is essentially based on one article they read in a magazine at an airport 12 years ago.

They want them to have to go through sports journalists* such as themselves rather than communicate with the public directly. It’s how they stay in business. 

It’s also a ref just on this side of malpractice letting her get in a punch, and almost another. That fight should have been over sooner.

It’s all part of the NFL’s new strategy on CTE, which is to argue that these guys already had it when they joined the pros. “The plaintiff sat through three hours of bizarre, surrealist questions about his parents without ever pausing to ask what any of it was supposed to be about. This clearly indicates the presence o…

I suspect there’s a variety of tampering going on. Athletes are “advised” that certain things will make the fight longer and more interesting for fans, a la Seth Petruzelli being encouraged to strike against Kimbo Slice instead of grappling. UFC intentionally keeps good competitors away from their top drawing names,…

I agree that he needs to start educating people about how the nuts and bolts of the systems he’s proposing work

Independent left candidates don’t generally swing left liberal voters to vote for them. Independent right candidates frequently do attract mainstream conservative voters - Hiram Wallace and Ross Perot drew off huge numbers of GOP voters, but even in the much-hyped 2000 election Nader was still a fringe candidate.

Were you born in the Midwest between 1945 and 1980? Everyone in my Dad’s family is the same way. They also prefer margarine to butter.

If you’re cast as the villain, the most important thing is to play the role.

I like good mayonnaise, as I like many foods, but I don’t get the need to be pushy about any of them. Who gives a shit if someone doesn’t like mayo or carrots or whatever? And fuck, what do those all-mayo restaurants do if someone has an allergy to eggs?

1. On average, the distribution and marketing budget of a film is equal to its production budget. That’s why a film that only earns back its production budget in box office receipts is considered a failure. Netflix stepping in to do distribution is a huge win for independent film.

I agree. The “cinema experience” is better as an ideal, but not in reality. People are constantly talking and moving about, going on their phones, and while I’m sure digital projection saves boatloads of money and makes it easier to bring less popular films to more areas, perfect picture quality was the one thing you…