"With regard to the student-athlete," wrote a senior NCAA executive in an email, "I think the focus on exploitation may be misplaced, and maybe it is not our duty to protect the student-athlete." [NYT] Read more

There is "Embrace Debate," and there is "Embrace Debate And Let Your Hands Roam Southward Until They Envelop Debate's Buttocks, Kneading Them Roughly, Spanking Them At Irregular Intervals, Stopping Only To Insert Your Entire Fist Into Debate's Anus." This is not the former. Read more

This exists: The Bleacher Report Report, created by the anonymous author "solely as an answer to Bleacher Report's very powerful PR machine." [Kinja] Read more

The Brewers' Yuniesky Betancourt is on pace to "become the first player since Bill Bergen more than 100 years ago to score SIX CONSECUTIVE SEASONS of negative WAR." [Joe Blogs] Read more

What is this shit? "The San Antonio Spurs picked Tim Duncan on June 25, 1997, about seven weeks before Matt Stone and Trey Parker launched their new animated series on Comedy Central....Both the Spurs and South Park generated so many classic moments over the years, they practically blend into each other now." [Grantlan… Read more

Tiger Woods carded an 8-over 44 on the back nine at Muirfield Village. That's the worst nine-hole score of his career. Read more

"Will you stop Godding up those ball players?" How not to be a shitty sportswriter, by Red Smith. [The Stacks] Read more

Burneko: "It’s just, Christ, the barbecue dorks are insufferable. If you’re popping out from behind bushes, brandishing your snottiest 'Well, actually…' every time somebody dares to use the dread b-word to describe anything not cooked over a dug-out pit full of firewood, it’s possible you’re maybe missing the main… Read more

Funbag will appear tomorrow, whenever Magary's done autographing man-boobs. Read more

Austinites: Glory boy author Drew Magary will be at BookPeople tonight to read from Someone Could Get Hurt. 7 p.m. CDT. Details here. Read more

Foodspin is off this week. Looking for something to cook or eat? Or maybe you just want to read a profane man on the internet writing funny words about food? Here's the full archive: Read more

Oh for fuck's sake, Chicago. Shut up already. You're getting to be like Cleveland. Read more

Out-of-context single-clause excerpt from Drew Magary's new book, selected at random (by a reader): "Children HATE it when you talk on the phone to other people." Someone Could Get Hurt arrives Thursday. Buy it. Read more

Out-of-context single-clause excerpt from Drew Magary's new book, selected at random: "... the only thing spanking does is set your child up for a life of sexual deviancy." Someone Could Get Hurt drops Thursday. Buy it now. Read more

Cool baseball newsletter: The Slurve. It's like an unconstipated version of Buster Olney's morning roundup. Very much worth the subscription. [The Slurve] Read more

It's MLB's pink-bat day. Required reading: Peggy Orenstein's "Our Feel-Good War on Breast Cancer" and Barbara Ehrenreich's "Welcome to Cancerland" (free version here), which is one of the greatest rants ever put to paper. Read more