Raising $8,000 + in a Kickstarter campaign may sound like an honest way to turn a buck, but with the proceeds being a direct result of robberies, for god’s sake, it acquires that gamey smell of scam, like pseudo-charitable fundraising campaigns cooked up by boiler room bosses that manage to appear just this side of…

Have you slung weed on street corners? If not, aren’t you calling the kettle black?

I read all this, and I’m afraid we’re gonna have to agree to disagree on our views of bank robbing. You sound quite proud of your work. Personally, I find it underwhelming. None of the few new facts you added here (even more time behind bars!) changes my view.

That is not my contention. My contention is that Bill Simmons is a bad writer, and in my judgment the Bias article is an example of many of his worst faults, one of the very worst of which is that he seems to have no idea that he’s not the only real person in the world.

Besides Baby Ruth (born 1921), here’s a sample of others you missed:

You know, I don’t take Halls of Fame seriously anymore. Why? Go to the Rock’n’Roll hall of fame and search for the late Joe Cocker... but don’t waste too much time on that futile endeavor. People are dumb. And sometimes, I have the feeling people who make Halls of Fame are particularly so...

As a perfect and eternal refutation to your argument, I offer you the two columns the legendary reporter and writer Jimmy Breslin wrote after JFK’s assassination, in both of which he captured the grief and sorrow of a tragedy without writing about himself at all. Here they are together, reprinted by the Daily Beast:

Bulletproof banks, Clinton “Foundation” collecting $$ from around the world just coincidentally when Hilary is SOS... yep, you’re right.

It’s not like the Septic Bladder and Ginger Wiener play anything other than publicity and money games. I doubt your friends will be persuaded there’s a trickle-down effect from Bladder.

This is true, and maybe he should’ve tried to do more on offense in his Pistons and Spurs days, but I might argue that his hyperfocus on defense and rebounding with Chicago was the right thing to do, strategically - maybe Rodman shouldn’t really be shooting when he’s sharing the floor with Jordan, Pippen, Kerr, etc.…

I mostly don’t disagree with this. What I mean about Rodman’s sporadic exertion on offense is that he was a somewhat more capable and well-rounded offensive player than usually was apparent, because he just seemed not to care about looking for his own shot, pretty much ever.

Like Smith, he was a mercurial wizard at one end of the court—defense, in his case—and only occasionally exerted himself at the other.

It’s uplifting to know there are investigative reporters around who doggedly construct paper trails that expose corruption (of which many insiders are aware but don’t disturb for fear of losing a meal ticket, or worse).

The first sentence very nicely captures what’s rotten at the top of FIFA.

Sounds like our summer entertainment will include -

Well, it is time to take back the word “football” from American football. Really a poor name for the game, really — you don't use your foot very much and the ball isn't even ball-shaped. Call it gridiron or American gladiator or something.

“The Gloves Are Off” is Antonio Cromartie’s official slogan regarding birth control.

Every time this guy opens his mouth, he incriminates himself. In his last statement, his defense was basically, “I did not do anything that was outside the norms of FIFA...if I did something wrong, then why isn’t Sepp Blatter indicted?”

First, kudos on calling them out, Diana. This has had the scent of the pink-ribbon "awareness" scam on it for months. Second, even from a strictly marketing standpoint, this is a bunk campaign. Women (and yes, men) need resources, not "awareness." It's far easier to get to the store and the donation info (wait, they…