If your girlfriend sons you, you sheepishly laugh it off then keep it moving. If your girlfriend ethers you, you quit your job and end up on the Deadspin front page. Read more

Aw man, don't go there with that. While at first you may feel clever after writing that, it really doesn't make much sense. Read more

It wasn't all that good, but maybe that's just my intuitive bias speaking. Read more

"Narrow misses: Britain had zero fourth-place finishes, an additional reminder that its tally of four medals—four medals!—constituted an overachievement."

That's only because the rules for being disqualified for the Short Track final puts you behind the 5-8th place race they have. Though I don't think you could ever…

Jason collins is a terrible abomination and i am horrified of the effect he will have on our nations children. Read more

Hopefully this helps (from a very strong skier, but not a racer): Read more

The problem is that no one should be able to tell you how to spend your compensation. You don't pay people with gift cards to your own store. Read more

NBC hounded Mancuso's grandmother about the death of her husband in a most awkward way right before Mancuso's run. It was very uncomfortable. Read more

All of these are still a nice departure from Vancouver's "Dead Olympian" narrative. Read more

Lol Mercator Projection. Read more

How about Algeria and Tunisia being all amped for the biathlon.

Yeah but what you failed to mention is that in the remaining 85% the BBC were showing highlights of the 1966 World Cup final. Read more

SA is probably considered small market because it's only the 25th largest MSA in the country. Read more

Unfortunately, most of the "good boys" of these Winter Olympics have already been euthanized. Read more

This is a profoundly stupid comment. The article examined how this one night was much more American-centric than any other before. It's not simply that America is more prominent than other countries. It's saying that it was worse than ever and almost half of all the coverage. Read more

To make matters even worse for Sam Sr., a Denny's waiter then showed up at his table with a plate of food. Read more

"And the knee-dicing "transitions" have disappeared..." Read more

I had this book in high school. It didn't help me be a better hitter there, but its tenets—never swing at the first pitch, never swing until you get a strike, never swing at anything that fools you—have made me an outstanding hitter in MLB the Show. I'm not making that up, either. They're antithetical to the… Read more

The issue here is not whether academics are studying things that are applicable to the problems of society at large (and in the case of Sloan, the point is moot, since sports are a distraction). The issue is how industrialists choose to participate in the scientific community, which they oftentimes do such that it… Read more

Head-first luge isn't quite "on track" in its first Olympic appearance as a demonstration sport