Tom Brady isn’t retiring

Tom Brady isn’t retiring

Tom Brady, the greatest NFL quarterback of all time, announced yesterday that he was retiring, “for good.” Bullshit. Oh, sure, there were a thousand headlines about it and unlike last year at this time, it appears Tom actually won’t be playing in the National Football League any more. But he’s not retiring. Is he going…

Facebook really ought to solve its fake ads problem

Facebook really ought to solve its fake ads problem

Facebook increasingly defines our ideas about truth and news, so they really ought to work a little harder to block completely fake and misleading advertising. If you aspire to be the safe playground everybody plays at, you don’t leave broken glass lying around — let alone take money from the people who scatter it there. What are…

Has Roger Goodell made himself clear? It’s “more probable than not.”
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Has Roger Goodell made himself clear? It’s “more probable than not.”

Say what you will about NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, but he finally figured out how to publish something clear on deflategate. Or putting it in the terms that the Wells Report used, it is “more probable than not” that you can actually figure out what Roger Goodell is saying. Look, Goodell is a mess. It took…

Who sounds like a deflategate liar: Robert Kraft or the NFL’s lawyers?
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Who sounds like a deflategate liar: Robert Kraft or the NFL’s lawyers?

Two people are arguing in print. Who do you believe? The one who writes more clearly, not necessarily the one that’s right. Which brings us to deflategate. When the Patriots played the Colts in this year’s AFC championship game, officials found some of the balls to be underinflated. The NFL just finished investigating whether the Patriots intentionally let air…