I’m actually too bereft about Shep’s departure to write anything remotely thoughtful — literally the day before he told me he was leaving, I’d been saying to a GMG or G/O or G-whatever-the-fuck-we’re-calling-it-this-week colleague how much working with Shep (and Ryan, and Chelsea) had done to restore my faith in this… Read more
I’m actually too bereft about Shep’s departure to write anything remotely thoughtful — literally the day before he…
I worked with Shep during my entire five and a half years at this once great, and now morally bankrupt, company. So there’s a lot I can talk about when it comes to Shep. For instance, we’ve been to Vegas twice for work and the second time ended with the best flight delay of my life. Read more
I worked with Shep during my entire five and a half years at this once great, and now morally bankrupt, company. So…
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(In her complaint, Taylor asks for damages. Brown’s camp already is feeding information to media to portray Taylor as just another woman out for cash—but believing that requires ignoring that the entire point of civil court is acknowledging a wrong, and then compensating the wronged party through money. Money is, in… Read more
Deadspin needs more women writers. Read more
It’s hard to think of an American institution better designed than sports to shunt a woman to the side in her own story. Read more
Would love to read the rest of your article, Diana, but it seems a Chick-Fil-A banner has seen fit to obliterate your last paragraph. Read more
It would simplify this whole issue if the USOC merged with the NCAA. Then there would be just one venal amateur-athletic racket to take out into the desert and drop in a hole. Read more
Well, that’ll teach ‘em.
It’s Friday afternoon, that time when every American sports league dumps the news it would rather you not see. Read more
Another infuriating, stark reminder that abusers don’t fit any specific profile, they’re everywhere. Apologies for apparently being one of the few commenters who don't find this funny. Read more
In 2011, the U.S. lost the World Cup on penalties to Japan, a heartbreaking end to a magical run that included coming from behind in a quarterfinal against Brazil thanks to an arcing pass from Megan Rapinoe, to Abby Wambach, who headed in a goal to tie the game in the 122nd minute. Read more
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Real Madrid is worth $4.2 billion and had $893 million in revenue last year. Manchester United is worth $3.8 billion and had $795 million in revenue last year. These are two of the three most exorbitantly wealthy cash-printing economic juggernauts in the history of any sport ever. Don’t blame economics for their… Read more
one thing we have going for us in Portland is that it’s a great and established soccer city. The University of Portland women’s soccer team led the nation in college attendance for a decade and used to regularly draw 5K to games when Sinclair and Megan Rapinoe were winning the national title under Clive Charles. Sinc… Read more
The comments section is chock full of experts as usual. Keep up the good work, gang. Read more
Hill interrupting her and talking over her, domineering the conversation, focusing on ultimately irrelevant details, and refusing to answer the most important question she asks (“How did they [the bruises] get there, then?”) is behavior that so squarely fits into a box labeled TYPICAL ABUSER DENIAL TACTICS that I am… Read more
I’ve been frustrated by the lack of questioning over the Warriors and their doctors as well. Questioning what the hell happened doesn’t automatically infer incompetence or malicious intent. I keep hearing how the Warriors are a first-class, competent organization since this and Klay’s injury (can someone not… Read more
Given that physicians have the same power as referees to determine whether or not players can play, it boggles my mind that the various unions haven't insisted on a truly independent medical corps paid collectively by the league rather than by individual teams. Read more