Bill Simmons struggled on TV because he is a writer competing against trained performers like John Oliver and Marc Maron
Mars [Marc Maron], the other guy they compare to him... you're a stand-up comic for that many years, you have balls the size of pumpkins because you talk for a living. ... He's a performer. ... Bill is a brilliant guy on a lot of fronts and TV is still a relatively new thing for him.
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The Olympics are over. Rio, I have no doubt in my mind all the buildings, all the goodwill, all of the tourist money is going to go into great hands. And they're going to be on the up and up for the rest of the century.
Pooping your pants from trying too hard makes an activity a sport
If you poop your pants from doing it too hard, it's a sport. I don't care what it is. That's my litmus test for does it qualify.
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Silver gold medal of takeaways. Storylines of the Olympics goes to the color changing pool. Yeah, I just I want you know how they have the live cameras on the grizzly bears every spring up in Alaska. You can watch them fishing for salmon. I want a live cam 24 seven on the pool as it's changing colors.
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This is the damn burst that now frees them up to be truly like, fuck it. I'm gonna go do like... he's got a ton of runway in front of him. He could stack three or four more of these.
Maryland needs Florida's Clayton to sprain an ankle to win the Sweet 16 matchup
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