This Week In Hot Takes: Tom Nichols argues that professional esports are “the ridiculous next step of imperial decline”
Nichols' take on professional esports was the hottest of the week.
Nichols' take on professional esports was the hottest of the week.
"I completely get Ronald Acuña getting drilled. He's led off 3 games w/HR's. Sometimes he showboats a bit. This is how the other team evens the playing field & makes him less comfortable. It all falls under the heading of 'That's baseball.'"
O'Reilly's take on LeBron James after LeBron opened a school in Akron was the spiciest this week.
"Do Tennessee fans who are taking delight in Schiano getting passed over for Interim tag realize that their outrage over his hiring has forever tainted him? Congrats?"
"Garoppolo wanted to be different from Brady? Well, mission accomplished. You’re 'Porn Boy' now."
McHenry's take on Garoppolo's dating life topped the takes this week.
"In this sense, baseball is the purest sport. It relies less on subjective umpire calls, especially now with replay."
"He hasn’t even thrown a pass yet, and he’s already focused on marrying a woman he’s known for a few months. Seems a bit quick. If I was the Browns general manager or head coach, I wouldn’t be loving this at all. I want Mayfield focused on slinging touchdowns."
"What an irony it was to see Japan celebrate going through to the knockout rounds of the World Cup on Thursday afternoon, under the laughable guise of "fair play". They shamed the World Cup, by literally not even trying towards the end of their 1-0 defeat to Poland."
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"There's millions of kids that look up to Phil Mickelson, and what he did today has got to do damage to a lot of these kids who really looked up to him."
Welcome to another edition of This Week In Hot Takes! This time around, we’re examining the hottest sports...
"That would have been blasphemous," Skippy? Then maybe you shouldn't have done it.
Mushnick brought back some of the usual standards, but added a rant against three-pointers.
"I'm getting sick and tired of the Boston Celtics. I've seen enough. They're overrated. They got exposed in Game 3 and exposed in Game 4 for what they were."
"LeBron James, after 15 years in this league, plays little to no defense even in a playoff game, and I have to tell you: it really, deeply offends me to watch it."
"Just about every person Price’s age plays video games, but none of them make $217 million playing baseball and none of them miss a start in New York this week due to carpal tunnel syndrome."
"These women dance in glorified bras and underwear on a field for male entertainment. If you don’t want to be treated like a 'sex object,' perhaps don’t be one for $."
"Mill got [special treatement] from the Sixers, a basketball franchise that should have been worried about winning a championship but instead sent a message to all the law-abiding Philadelphians who worked hard to pay for their playoff tickets that they were fools and chumps."
"Here you have a white billionaire who wanted to be part of the league and couldn't get in! Colin Kaepernick couldn't get back in!"
Lewis' take on Odell Beckham Jr.'s religion was the most fiery thing this week.
Mushnick's surprisingly-strong opinion on the existence of an Andre the Giant documentary topped the hot takes from March 30-April 5.
Steigerwald's five-alarm take about gender roles topped this week.
The hot takes this week revolved around NCAA basketball, with Peter and Darren Rovell blasting the UConn women and Myron Medcalf, Chris Broussard and Dan Shaughnessy dropping hot takes on the men's side.
Bayless calling anyone else a self-promoter? Now that's a hot take.