I have been heading over to Halos Heaven ever since the Hamilton situation started blowing up, and the general sympathy for Arte Fucking Moreno on the posts and in the comments has been mind-boggling. I understand than fans are generally biased towards their team, but the overwhelming “the biased east-coast media is… Read more
If you are going to cover the news, cover all the news. Read more
Luther Head’s corner 3 in the 2005 title game against UNC. Read more
College pitcher here; the new balls are about equivalent to major league balls in terms of seam height. The old balls had the same seam height as what we used in high school. The high seam balls made it easier to throw better breaking pitches but they also tended to tail a lot on a regular fastball. The new balls, in… Read more
Malcolm Gladwell says you need 10,000 hours to become an expert at something. Read more
We enjoy making fun of ESPN sports business reporter Darren Rovell, and do so a lot around these parts, because he…
"While academics roll their eyes..." Include this psychiatrist among the crowd.
No, she was neither raped nor witness to a rape. She saw someone who had previously been raped get upset. Read more
The answer to the question is: No, she wasn't. She saw a woman who had been raped a few days before scream while they were in a car together. Read more
I work for Pac-12 Network and coming into this basketball season, we were told to not use any highlights from last season with those three players involved, or if we had to, de-emphasizing them as much as we could. Read more
A lot of "analytics" is sliding into dogmatic thinking. Baseball teams that take a lot of pitches and never steal are good because it's the "right" way to play. Basketball teams that take a lot of 3-pointers are good because that's the "right" way to play. Football teams that go for it on 4th and 1 are good because… Read more
The "only way"? That's wildly inaccurate. Here are two other ways that have the benefit of actually having worked, with other, mediocre East teams: Read more
As someone who has sold running shoes for 10 years, has seen every fad come and go, and has run all distances in all sorts of shoes I can say this with certainty: People will only hear what they want to hear when purchasing running shoes. You can explain the pros and cons of the different styles, brands etc.. and… Read more
Also, and I say this as a regular reader and appreciator of Hertz and Zirin, if you don't know that a big chunk of JRW's turf is made up of, uh, middle-class bungalows exactly as pictured in Hertz's piece, you haven't spent enough time on the south side of Chicago to have an opinion worth expressing about it. Read more
I would actually be curious to read more from someone who deals with domestic violence professionally on what the potential achievements and utility of an "awareness campaign" are. (Self criticism: if I were REALLY interested, maybe I wouldn't be posting the question on a sports gossip blog!) I was a child when the… Read more