This fun little Joe Posnanski bit about Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade is both an excellent close read of Elsa the Nazi's motivations and a bite-size lesson about epistemology. [Joe Blogs] Read more

SI.com's Peter King leads the league in warmongering: "If we don't act against the Russian separatists for the downing of the Malaysian airliner full of innocents, when exactly would we act against anyone for anything?" [SI.com] Read more

The great Dan Jenkins, stuck in Fort Worth on doctor's orders, is missing his first golf major in 45 years. His daughter, Sally, is there with him, and her column on Friday was, to coin a phrase, dead solid perfect. [WaPo] Read more

Our pal BronzeHammer has an anti-comedy video series called "The Week in Jokes." You should watch. [YouTube]

Mike Florio, partner at the law firm of Schmuck, Hack, and Gasbag LLP, gives the football-media equivalent of the birds-and-the-bees talk to Johnny Manziel: "But if something happens between a sufficiently overage male and an underage girl, the overage male can go to jail even if the underage girl convinced him that… Read more

Ray Ratto is essential reading: "'So what does this mean for soccer in America?' you hear yourself no longer asking, and the reason why you no longer ask it is not that the question has been decided, but that it's been decided at long last that the question is stupid." [CSNBayArea.com] Read more

"I love the First Amendment," said the sportswriter, "but ..." [NiemanLab] Read more