Drew has now won over $20! He won’t stop talking about it, and challenges everybody on the staff to a H2H at any provocation. Read more

No. Of the nine sports measured—which are all listed right there—soccer finished fifth. For instance, it finished behind girls soccer, which finished second. Read more

That’s a great point, I undersold the revolutionary nature of the pass. Read more

Nothing interesting happened? Christ, people can’t even recognize progress anymore. Read more

It’s only “out of bounds as fuck” if you accept the clearly broken and untenable NBA rule book. That’s the problem with basketball these days; everybody is trying to protect what they have and aren’t willing to embrace creative solutions to old problems. Read more

Not sure what I’m watching? Jeez, get your eyes checked man. Read more

According to ESPN’s summary of the new agreement, no, there is no provision for cutting a player. The commissioner can impose an unpaid suspension—and there is no minimum or maximum to the length of the suspension—that in theory could be for the next 324 games (the remainder of Reyes’s contract), but I’m pretty sure… Read more

You must not be a TMZ connoisseur then. I contend that TMZ has the second best style of any media organization, just behind MediaTakeOut’s wonderful headlines. The headline, the ellipses in the story, how they break with AP convention, the wild double hyphen at the end. It’s all great. Read more

We’re the Knights, dammit. The Knights! Read more

This is a hilarious, hilariously dumb take that I unfortunately knew would be down here somewhere. Read more

Hey, could you shoot me an email? [email protected] Read more

Kinja! Read more

No you didn’t. You said: Read more

This is demonstrably false, as the data tables from the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research show. From 1982-2013, these are the “direct catastrophic injuries” (deaths) in high school sports: Read more

Chris Paul, who sat out the final 10 seconds with a not serious hamstring injury, was very sad. Read more

Pages 23-26 of this report (PDF) have a table of all football deaths since 1931. The most shocking thing is actually how many deaths there were early in the sport’s history. From 1931-1976 there were an average of 11.5 high school football deaths a season. Read more

Yup. Which is not entirely unexpected, especially considering how unseriously Pop and the Spurs take the preseason. I have to assume it’ll be figured out sometime over the next 78 games. Read more

Being a good family man has nothing to do with the fact that he was a terrible, terrible columnist. Read more

Good Kinja. Read more