He had a very hard time breathing, and he always smelled bad. He is much, much bigger than his photos let on. I was really taken aback the first time I met him.

Two things:

She's an established writer and a solid follow on twitter. You can check out some of her work here: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/bios/…

My full quote, which is a little kinder than the stray pieces in Rob's story would indicate:

I was going to write a big piece about how the entire system is corrupt because it's taking value from both athletes and students by creating the idea that athletics is more important than being a functioning human being, but you know what?

It would really make a lot more sense if you hadn't cropped it, Kyle.

There are 500,000 Indians living in Qatar. Since 2011 around 450-500 Indians have died due to any number of reasons. Without diminishing the value of human life, I would urge you to at least consider those numbers for some sort of context to the mortality rate of that particular demographic.

Marchman and I were just talking about this, and it feels like something has to give at some point. I mean, we've got eight years of reports like this ahead of us, and a World Cup in Qatar is basically untenable from a soccer standpoint as well. You can't play sports outside during the Qatari summer, and the heads of…

We covered that, too! http://deadspin.com/report-fifa-vp…

If you click through to the report and go to page 15, there's a sidebar with fatality numbers for World Cup and Olympic construction projects in other countries. Seven workers died during Brazil's World Cup construction.

Do you think Qatar could lose the World Cup bid if this gains enough traction/publicity amongst groups such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, etc.?

"I am the walrus" - John Lennon. If Kurt Cobain were the walrus he would still be alive as he would not have had fingers to pull a trigger.

In before the NCAA make union membership an eligibility violation.