This is a very bad strategy. It works for some things, but it absolutely won’t work for any transfer, signing, firing, or hiring, because those are always anonymous sourced without a quote. Granted, you have to be able to separate out the 5% of good stuff from the 95% of bad stuff, but simply throwing out anything… Read more

To be perfectly clear, there very well could be something going on. Though Rooney is issuing legal threats to essentially say, “don’t publish untrue stuff,” pre-emptive legal threats are often a tactic used by people trying to hide something. Read more

As SB Nation links to in their article, Real Madrid intentionally scored on their own basket over 50 years, which led to the Euroleague disallowing scoring on your own hoop. Read more

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Extraordinary Kinja. Read more

The linked clip of McLemore’s dunk gives a better indication of the speed Terry was moving at, so you can judge whether or not he needed to slow his momentum on Rogers. At the moment I’m trying to find better video of the play. Read more

If American knew who the hell she was that would’ve been the lead image for sure. Read more

I won’t even start to pretend to be an expert on English law, but as far as I am aware, yes. England doesn’t have nearly as strong of freedom of speech provisions as we do in the United States for stuff like this. Read more

I love this photo (via Getty) of Ceni sprinting back to goal in a match against Flamengo.

You should read the articles that are linked to in the piece that explain it! Read more

The only time I’d ever actually heard of it was in Speaker For The Dead, when amaranth is one of the main food sources on the planet Ender ends up on. I thought it was made up until I saw this cereal box at the grocery store. Read more

One of the best classes I took in college was an English class simply called “Faulkner, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald.” We just read one of their books each week and talked about it, and had to write a couple of five page essays or something. Getting through a Faulkner book in just a week is pretty tough, but reading… Read more

Yup, and very pointedly he wasn’t hired by Mark Jackson, but was hired by Joe Lacob because he couldn’t really decide between the two: Read more

They’re not gonna say anything. They’ve been teed up by reporters to go off on Mark Jackson multiple times, and they’ve never done it. They’d just say something about how they’re great coaches, how they’ve learned a lot from both of them blah blah. Curry especially was known to be tight with Jackson. Read more

By “mention” I think you mean “made up something I thought sounded absurd,” but good to know that even my imagination can’t outstrip reality. Read more

When you rent you don’t always get a place with a nicely sized living room. Read more

The speed of light. Read more

Good thing I can update headlines! Read more