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He’s got a little bit of Ray Romano going

He bulled his way around Augusta as everyone else around him fell prey to its bald greens and to its tranquil-yet-insatiable water hazard on 12, where third-round leader Francesco Molinari did his best impression of your dad and put his ball in the drink. And he didn’t just roll it into the water. No man, he…

This stuff is so interesting to me. I also think that the maybe unfortunate lack of money in women’s sports plays a role here. As Lauren points out, high school kids aren’t going to pretend to be a woman and/or take 12 months of estrogen so that they can play women’s sports at a theoretical advantage. The same is no…

When you have more triple-doubles than any player in NCAA history, who can blame you for hunting for a garbage-time rebound?

Why did you say that Friends was number one? According to your own link The Officer was number one by a wide margin.

I feel like this sets up for someone getting banged up in the playoffs and IT scoring 25 in his first game back in the rotation. It will be a thing at the time and then he’ll slide quickly back into mostly badness. 

The legal seriousness of a crime does not always match up with the moral reprehensibility of the offense. Take domestic violence for example—usually the standard offense is the lowest level felony, far from the most serious of crimes. But as far as moral culpability or public perception, its one of the worst things…

Giri, how can you lament the amount of attention paid to Kyrgios and the weird obsession with his career when YOU write about him SO MUCH?

I’m fine with this being a three, because as you say, there’s really no question that he pulls his left foot up and jumps only off his right. But it does get me wondering what the actual rule says, and how it would be applied in a much closer situation -- if the left foot comes up just a split second before the other…

Does Simmons even make sense playing with Lebron? If Lebron is going to run the show in crunch time, what skills would Ben Simmons be offering in that moment?

If we’re being honest, I think we have seen players in the past take shoes that weren’t really posing a risk and chuck them, for the obvious purpose of being a dick and trying to play some 5 on 4 for a while. The ref probably had that in mind. But when the shoe is at the free throw line, come on, its gotta go. Maybe…

Team Brad is far and away the best team. Not only are Brad and Larissa going to dominate the buzzer, but David is particularly well-suited for final jeopardy. Not a weak spot on the team.

I’m still not sure what Samer’s take is here, but honestly it seemed kind of funny? “Pay to the order of Muggers” on the check, that’s great

I think the “talent showcase” argument carries more force when you consider shoe and endorsement deals. Even if Zion had gone to Europe, he was never not going to be top 5 in the draft; so playing his way up to the #1 pick gains him maybe $2 million in first-year salary. Not nothing, to be sure. But consider the…

The money forgiven under PSLF is NOT considered taxable income. It even says that much in your own linked article.

I read this one and a half times and still can’t figure out what’s being said

I’m all for a Big Hall, but “more players and they’re families will be happy when they get in” actually does not seem like a strong argument for it.

That last paragraph sums it up perfectly. Who does this leak benefit? Lozano seems to think that it benefits the teams/owners, but I don’t see how. Honestly, the only benefit I could see is actually on Lozano’s part, in that it could drum up interest from teams that maybe thought they were priced out? But if he leaked…

The ridiculous labor structure in sports is justifiably on the list of Deadpsin’s talking points. But so are the physical dangers of football. Lawrence has the skills of a grown man but the body of 19 year old. I actually think a few years for guys to add strength and quickness before facing the freak athletes in the…