When I first read headlines about this, I assumed it was the basketball team, selling their basketball shoes. In which case, yeah, you’re gonna need those for basketball. But giving these to the football team just seems like a gift, a cool-ass gift. Why should anyone give a shit what happens to them next?

Then, after the series was over, Green refused to give Thompson a customary, cordial dab on the court.

Is it really hard to say “I’m not really into football” or something benign like that? It doesn’t have to be a performative explanation of the reasons

What is that, a boil?

Remember, Republicans buy shoes too. The NFL is trying to get EVERYONE on board by walking some fine line where it looks both tough on anthem protests and simultaneously empathetic to anthem protests. Of course, that line doesn’t really exist, and the NFL ends up looking foolish from every perspective.

How could anyone who saw Infinity War be the least bit surprised by this?

This is some weird stuff. I know Kroenke sucks, but how are we going to give the Nuggets shit for avoiding the luxury tax when they’re clearly not going to be competitive this year (unless you count being competitive for the 8th seed in the West). Kroenke should have paid that extra $20 million...because we don’t like…

Anyone who uses “butt” as an adjective pretty much shows themselves to be an idiot. Beginning with Burneko, of course.

Legal experts: What’s the standing here? Is it just that fuzzy notion of “being” an NCAA champion? That seems tenuous, especially when you consider that to the people that might care about that (I don’t even know, the gm of a European team thinking about signing these guys?), they are fully aware of the reality that…

It’s weird and creepy for a grown man to hire escorts to have sex with teenage boys in order to convince them to play basketball for his program, but that kind of thing would go away instantly if Louisville had to compete like any other employer for the services of the most qualified candidates, where actual…

It could definitely work the way its intended, with the best team cleaning up and improving its seed. But it could also work in another way. The top team in either of those conferences could sweep the top pod but still get upset in the conference tournament. At least in the case of CUSA, and in certain years the Sun…

That’s 36 slots for the major conferences, or 54.5 percent of the possible tournament openings. Of those 36 slots, 24 (of a possible 32) were top-eight seeds; just nine were seeded in bottom-eight slots.

Mike Trout is on track for this to be the best single month of his career, with a 264 OPS+. Barry Bonds’ 2002 OPS+ was 268.

If you can stand sitting near me in the office this is a v cool opportunity. Especially if you’re a woman trying to get into sports, you should message me — DMs are open

Am I the only one that thinks maybe Emily really might have been a host? I can’t get past her description of the music box as having a ballerina pop up “in the middle.” Yet the box they repeatedly show has the ballerina clearly on the right side. I don’t think her having the profile proves otherwise. After all, where…

I’m wondering what constitutes a physician-patient relationship, as well as what exactly Amann’s role as doctor is. In my head, I was kind of viewing him as the doctor the wrestlers would see if they got hurt, as opposed to say more like a primary care doctor. But then I didn’t see anything about Hall actually being…

He’s made four movies explicitly about sports—Happy Gilmore, The Longest Yard, The Waterboy—

Is “schoolboy” an east coast thing or just a Dave McKenna thing? I’ve only ever heard it called prep football or, even more to the point, high school football. Schoolboy sounds weird as hell and he writes it all the time

The win-probability graph alone is exciting to look at.

Yes, you’ll respect someone standing up for their beliefs right up to the point that their beliefs are not the same as yours. Courageous stuff