It warms my heart to know that, in an era in which the league’s best players would rather join forces than beat one another, two of the best 12 players of all time still despise each other.
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Bill Simmons: Why Shaq signed with the Celtics … and other theories - ESPN
Simmons alluding to this unreal Shaq freestyle performance… here’s hoping to Lakers v Celtics 3 with LBJ on Dwayne Wade’s Heat watching from the sidelines.
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Imagine the trash-talking! Imagine the tension! Imagine it coming down to Monday night with all three teams still in the mix! Imagine the satisfaction of being one of four owners who won the first Ménage À Trois Week! Imagine the playoff implications for the teams that go 3-0 in Ménage À Trois Week! And really, how can you be against anything called Ménage À Trois Week???
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Bill Simmons: Fantasy football needs a shakeup - ESPN
Love this idea: “Three times during the season (Week 4, Week 8 and Week 12), your league schedules four three-team matchups instead of the conventional six head-to-head matchups. “
Our main competitor is employers. And so far that competitor is crushing us. Only a tiny fraction of people who could start a startup do. Nearly all customers choose the competing product, a job.
To ensure that the country’s most sensitive duties are carried out only by people loyal above all to the nation’s interest, federal rules say contractors may not perform what are called “inherently government functions.” But they do, all the time and in every intelligence and counterterrorism agency, according to a two-year investigation by The Washington Post.
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The following are suggestions for the best magazine articles (in English) ever. Arranged in chronological order.
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