They desperately want Rousey to be that star, but fans already turned on her.

Here is a preemptive response to this line of criticism: http://deadspin.com/this-is-basica…

The integration of social media with reporting has created a "Report First, Verify Eventually" mentality.

Blame fucking twitter. Any context, detail, nuance, etc. is completely lost when you reduce "news" to 140 characters.

I like the revisions this went through over the course of a few minutes, from just being a tweet, to an article with only the text "holy shit" next to the tweet, to finally being a slightly more rational article. You really get a sense for internet blog-news sites and how different it is having to report on stories…

To lose on a headed in cross after subbing in an extra center back whose specialty is heading out crosses... woof.

Yeah, I think Hume's got it. Deleting the video and photos probably had a lot to do with not wanting to deal with hand-wringy phone calls from her sponsors. Always remember that brands are the worst.

Probably not golf snobbery or sexism. Probably the saddest reason of all: "brand awareness." Michelle Wie, to paraphrase Jay-Z isn't a businesswoman, she's a business, woman and her business (after the business of playing golf) is making the people that pay her bills happy.

Braun: [Receives shot in the ass]

don't worry - looks like that 2 can be pretty easily change into a 3.

Teixeira is a poor man's Rob Riggle.

"Girls", where the sometime-hell of sexual relations is approached with wit, complexity, and meaningful satire..."

I shared this on another Ballmer story earlier but think it needs to be shared here too: I have a friend who was a caddy at chambers bay a few summers back. One day, Ballmer and some other higher-ups at Microsoft came down for a round and my friend was caddying in their group. The first hole is a regular length par…

I worked in a hotel that Ballmer stayed at once, and his rider rivaled the '1,000 brown M&Ms' story from Wayne's World 2.

Anti-MMA position: Short-sighted legislators have created a dangerous situation where incompetent, self-regulating promotions are literally allowing people with deadly bloodborne pathogens to compete in MMA and kickboxing bouts. The solution is to legalize and properly regulate the sport.