Brian Fowler

Yeah. He did a lot I like (and I like a lot of the more measured takes on him as EIC basically being "he fixed things that desperately needed fixing, but once he had everything on track, he just couldn't stop trying to fix things that weren't broken." But it's hard to get past the twin issues of "explicitly banned homosexual characters in Marvel Comics" and "Despite this wrote the first two explicitly gay characters in Marvel history... With them trying to rape Bruce Banner." Still, an absolute prodigy as a writer and clearly one of the more important figures in post-Golden Age comics history.

I'm auto-in on anything Wright does, and I knew already that bleak and depressing isn't his brand. But, while clearly going to be way more faithful than the 87 book, we're still a long long way from the out of shape asthmatic protagonist and the movie looks like it has about 5,000 times more jokes than the book.

With the benefit of three weeks of hindsight and the apparent end of the coaching search, I think we can definitively say the answer to this was "yes.'

It'll always be Rayesh to me. I don't care if Denny got it wrong linguistically, he created the character so I stand by how he wanted it. Plus it sounds cooler.

Deandre Ayton is a Laker. He has talent, but he's a flake and immature. CP3 couldn't reach him as a teammate, and Chauncey Billups, who had a lot of success in his career helping focus head case teammates, bet he could do it as a coach and failed. So I guess the question is... Can LeBron?

Indianapolis's only real strength is location. It's the perfect city for everybody in the Midwest to congregate. Which is why it's a convention town more than anything else.

Oh hey I had totally missed that Detroit also brought Caris LeVert back to Michigan. That's fun, reuniting him and Robinson as a bench duo.

To be fair, after saying nobody should trade for him that wasn't in L.A., Paul George did sign a new deal instead of bolting OKC. Then the Clippers offered roughly everything for him a year later.

Though it still feels like cosmic balance should put him in San Antonio, I would like to officially welcome Duncan Robinson back to the Great Lakes state.

Update: the lawsuit against him has been dismissed, though he will still be facing the suspension for having premarital sex.

Someone is going to have to explain to me this Jazz/Hornets trade. Utah sent out the better player and a draft pick for the lesser player with the same number of years (1) and slightly more money left on his contract.

BYU graduate senior QB Jake Retzlaff is looking to transfer (because he's a graduate, he can transfer at any time before the season starts and not need to portal window) because he's facing a seven game honor code suspension. He's been sued for alleged sexual assault, which is not why he's being suspended. His defense is, unsurprisingly, that the sex was consensual. Which at BYU means honor code violation.

Absolutely not the point here, but reading that helped drive home to me just how much more money NBA players make now than twenty years ago. Telfair was the thirteenth pick in 2004, played ten years in the NBA, and had a solid career as a rotation piece. He made about $19 million. Devin Carter was the thirteenth pick last year, and signed a deal that over the first four years will pay him a bit over $22 million. If Carter goes on to have a career broadly similar to Telfair, he'll likely make somewhere over $75 million in his career, maybe even around $100 million.

Man, he played so well last year and is on the verge of a gigantic payday. Gonna be sadly hilarious if he fucked it all up trying to get some extra money rigging bets.

Apparently it has 40,000+ students. Moved to FBS in 2012, made a bowl game for the first time in 2023 and then made another one last year. Given the teams they struck out on, not sure the PAC-# was going to do any better.

Weird timing in Toronto. Did Ujiri still have power during the draft?

Oh yeah, a ton of stuff about OJ being an abusive piece of shit for decades came out after the murders, including shit about USC covering up him beating girls up after dates and shit, and Nichole trying to get the police to help her years before he killed her. But virtually nobody knew about it, and OJ was an utterly beloved figure right up until that day.

It's an interesting move. I'm going to forever wonder if Milwaukee would've made the Holiday/Lillard trade if they had known Portland would send Holiday to Boston. Seems an odd move for Portland this time though. Holiday has functioned really well as a "last piece" but Portland is nowhere near one piece away. Unless they have another deal coming.

Jackie Brown is my favorite American movie of the 90s

I still hate that. The NFL pretending the Ravens were all expansion team. It drives me insane.

Indiana definitely into the danger zone here. They gotta come out of this time out and whittle the lead down some.

Looked way too much like Tatum, Liliard, KD a few years back, etc. And looks like it is indeed a Achilles tear. I did not expect Indiana to keep it close, much less have a halftime lead.

And fuck. As a neutral observe, you hate to see that. Might swing the whole game. Plus he might've just made a fairly mild calf injury into something a lot worse like a muscle tear or even his Achilles.

Haliburton coming out on fire.

The thing that is just utterly shocking to think about for me is that Strauss and Nassar pretty much overlap with Dr Anderson at Michigan and Jerry Sandusky at Penn State. Four different schools in the same conference, all within 450 miles of each other, that had more or less concurrent unchecked sexual predators in their athletic department.