If you must know, it’s because I’ve had British and West Indian coaches a lot of my life on a lot of different teams, or American coaches who played in Britain and/or had British coaches themselves. It’s how they speak, and because I grew up listening to them speak, it’s how I speak, too. Read more

Counterpoint: a photo of Ken Shamrock from like last week

Define “successful” Read more

He said “that’s what’s up” when I thanked him, too! He was one of the most fun interviews I’ve ever had. Read more

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They’re level on points with +1 goal differential on England. Colombia already qualified, so no reason why they shouldn’t let their subs stretch their legs out there. I can see England getting a couple more, so let’s hope France just hang like eight on Mexico Read more

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“We can’t know that climate change is occurring because science doesn’t exist that allows us to project in the future” is not an opinion. Read more

Twice? Read more

you’re my brother from another mother, lover Read more

Sri Lanka, fuck it. Read more

We’ve talked about this before, and everyone agrred Burneko would be delicious. Read more

Brian Phillips is the gawd, and Rembert is my homeboy and personal favorite. A whole lot, though. Wesley Morris, netw3rk, Shea Serrano, Molly Lambert. I’m forgetting people. Read more

I’m still relatively new to reading sportswriting every day, so I never had a time where I read The Sports Guy or I considered Simmons a particular good or great writer. There’s no real context for his fame or paycheck. I’ve never made it all the way through one of his columns, and don’t expect to. But Grantland and… Read more

Samer is a Pats apologist, even though they stand for everything we toil every day to tear down. When Ballghazi broke this week he didn’t talk all afternoon. His hero is a lie. Read more

I think literally every male ESPN writer over 40 that I’ve emailed uses an AOL address. It’s unsettling. Like, what does your AOL inbox look like? Read more

Getting this no question. Read more

I figured Sriracha was the only acceptable answer until my roommate came home with three bottles of this hot sauce called Secret Aardvark habanero hot sauce from, like, Portland, maybe? Secret Aardvark habanero hot sauce is the only acceptable answer. Read more