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On Being Owned By The New York Mets: David Roth's Weak In Review
The New York Mets had an especially Mets-y week, even by their standards. You don't need to be a Mets fan to understand what that means, or why it's frustrating.
Magic, Technology, And Steph Curry In The NBA Finals: David Roth's Weak In Review
Stephen Curry really is the most valuable and uniquely dominant player in the NBA right now. But, for the second straight NBA Finals, he isn't. Both make sense.
The NBA Finals And Whatever Comes Next: David Roth's Weak In Review
Because they have done so much to expand basketball's possibilities, it's tempting to see Golden State as inevitable. Their revolution is proof that nothing is.
Discipline, Punish, And Matt Harvey: David Roth's Weak In Review
After a comeback season of triumph and noise, Matt Harvey looks lost at sea. That's a problem for him, and the Mets. The way he's been shredded in the press is something else.
Bad Guys, Dopes, and the Olympics: David Roth's Weak In Review
The pompous global self-importance of the Olympics doesn't make them any less fun to watch. Neither, really, does their corruption. In some sense, it even brings us together.
The NBA That Will Be, and the One That Never Was: David Roth's Weak in Review
The NBA is going through a renaissance and a revolution right now, led by Steph Curry and the Golden State Warriors. You can tell it's a good thing because of how much people like Charles Barkley hate it.
Raging, Machines, and the NBA Playoffs: David Roth's Weak in Review
Teams like the Golden State Warriors and the San Antonio Spurs can be easy to hate, because of how cruelly easy they make the game look. But the game is not easy.
Johnny Football And Laremy's Mask, The Sorrow And The Pity: David Roth's Weak In Review
As the NFL Draft enters its baroque phase, let's consider the strange and disconcerting stories that the NFL tells itself, and the ones it doesn't even bother with.
Inhuman Resources, or the Background Noise of the NFL Draft: David Roth's Weak In Review
Thanks to its nature and the NFL's signature issues, the NFL Draft is and always will be weird. Now, with the NFL bigger than ever, the draft is stranger still.
Sam Hinkie and an Untrustable Process: David Roth's Weak in Review
Sam Hinkie's Process is over in Philadelphia. Joe Lacob's work taking credit in Golden State is only beginning. Business, in other words, is booming as usual.
Performance, Anxiety, and the Brocial Compact: David Roth's Weak in Review
It was pretty dumb of D'Angelo Russell to secretly record Nick Young's love-in-the-club confessions. Everything that's come after has somehow been even dumber.
RGIII And Afterlife In A Glass House: David Roth's Weak In Review
The Cleveland Browns signing a free agent quarterback does not really qualify as news. But, when Robert Griffin III is concerned, we're in another realm entirely.