I notice you left out NHL. Half of the “Raptors” fans in Toronto are hockey bros who have never watched an entire basketball game until a few weeks ago.

The baby bottle schtick was on full display when Bumgarner stood on the mound and chirped at the ump for not getting a call six inches off the plate... On the second pitch of the game.

Ray Ratto’s writing here is like a Maserati parked amongst a fleet of Chevy Volts.

The thing that gets me about this is that there’s literally no other scenario in the world where a dink like Stevens would do this to someone like Lowry who could clearly and easily kick the shit out of him. The only thing that lets someone like Stevens think he can get away with it is a lifetime of thinking that…

Fair, but here’s the thing: all sports team owners are scum, even the “good” ones.

Yeah, that’s exactly what she’s saying: that the reporters absolutely knew who he was and chose not to report it.

The AP tried to reach out to Neymar’s representatives for comment, but have not replied.

Excellent point. The league is filled with so many people who don’t have a single clue of what they’re doing. No wonder Stern had to reset the economics of the sport because these buffoons would blow it all.

But...that’s true. The Pelicans were, and are dysfunctional. The Lakers are obviously dysfunctional as well (although the extent of that dysfunction was not apparent at the time, and a lot of that dysfunction would likely have been moot if they had landed Davis). The argument was never, ever, about whether the Lakers…

That would have been an absurd argument if it was the one anyone actually made! But, alas, it wasn’t. But good job burning that straw man to the ground!

Yeah, except it wasn’t.

“And don’t miss the Heath Ledger story.”

When this becomes a movie or a mini series it will make for some interesting casting decisions....like say Katherine Heigl to play Jeannie Buss, Rob Lowe to play Rob Pelinka, Kevin Hart as Rich Paul 

You laid the groundwork, had the mid-story conflict, and brought home the sad, sad resolution.  This comment was a beautiful life’s work.

This isn’t even the most incredible article about ball fakes this week:

Alert us when he graduates to wounded ducks.

Fucking hell. I used that exact same excuse, and my wife was all, “Oh, really? You played on the 2004 Olympic men’s basketball team?” and I was all, “You don’t remember that?” and she was like, “no, where’s you medal?” and I was like, “You think I’m bring a fucking Bronze medal home from Sydney,” and she said, “The…

If you can’t see any difference between Lamar Odom using a giant rubber black cock to excrete someone else’s piss so that his marijuana habit goes undetected, and a state-sponsored-and-operated effort to both provide athletes with performance-enhancing drugs and avoid positive tests, I don’t know how to help you.

Pee IS stored in the balls!