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Charles Star

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Yes, sending Kurt Eichenwald a GIF can be a crime

Yes, sending Kurt Eichenwald a GIF can be a crime

The Outline — An analysis of the assault statute used to charge an alt-right troll with assault for sending an epiliptogenic GIF to journalist Kurt Eichenwald in order to cause a seizure. Review of the briefs and decisions in the criminal prosecution and related civil litigation show that the decision, while novel, was not surprising or hard to reach.
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Michael Avenatti Did Everything Wrong

Michael Avenatti Did Everything Wrong

Deadspin — You wouldn't want a news cycle to pass without something to read about Michael Avenatti, and lord knows he wouldn't either. Because he cares, and because he's apparently been on an IRS watch list for a decade, that will never happen.
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You Say You Sell “Le Big Mac,” but Why Should We Believe You?

You Say You Sell “Le Big Mac,” but Why Should We Believe You?

Slate — The European Union just canceled McDonald’s trademark for Big Macs. Wait, what?
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Anthony Kennedy Was Never Really a Friend to Liberals

Anthony Kennedy Was Never Really a Friend to Liberals

VICE — A look back at Kennedy's record shows that but for a few high-profile rulings, he was a conservative justice who granted more power to the right.
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Michael Cohen and Michael Avenatti's Petty Beef, Explained by a Lawyer

Michael Cohen and Michael Avenatti's Petty Beef, Explained by a Lawyer

VICE — Can Trump's lawyer block Stormy Daniels's lawyer from appearing in court because he's an asshole?
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Here's What That Supreme Court Decision About Sports Betting Actually Does

Here's What That Supreme Court Decision About Sports Betting Actually Does

Deadspin — There are wiser ways to start an article about sports betting than this but still, I have to warn you - the Supreme Court decision that freed New Jersey to allow casinos and racetracks to open sports books - is boring as hell.
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How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Tolerate Clint Hurdle

How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Tolerate Clint Hurdle

theclassical.org — Every irritating thing you've heard about Clint Hurdle, Pittsburgh's bunt-happy and resolutely ancient-school manager, is true. Here's how one Pirates fan figured out how to deal with it.
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The Polanco Conundrum

The Polanco Conundrum

theclassical.org — Super-prospect Gregory Polanco is finally on his way to Pittsburgh. How and why this well-deserved call took so long to come has a lot to do with MLB's broken Super Two system, but also something to do with the micro-scale workaday weirdness of the Pirates.
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Yakkin' About College Sports Labor Law

Yakkin' About College Sports Labor Law

theclassical.org — In which a lawyer and a... non-lawyer figure out what an NLRB ruling means for the future of the NCAA, and the whole weird feudal endeavor that is college sports.
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Pirates in the Promised Land

Pirates in the Promised Land

theclassical.org — Eight years into what would turn into the longest franchise losing streak in American professional sports, the Pirates built a cathedral to failure on the Allegheny River. Last night, with one precise throw correcting the path of an imprecise one, a demon was driven out of the cathedral and the parishioners rejoiced.
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Not-Jinxing the Pittsburgh Pirates

Not-Jinxing the Pittsburgh Pirates

theclassical.org — By most reasonable assessments, the Pittsburgh Pirates really and truly are a good baseball team after 20 years of really and truly not being one. There's no harm in believing that, right? Um, right?
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The Saints And The Sin

The Saints And The Sin

theclassical.org — The NFL has finally handed down the punishments due to the New Orleans Saints' bounty-hunting regime. The penalties will sting, but they're also a combination of severity and irrelevance that should surprise no one. There's money to be made, after all.
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Remoras, Predators, New Orleans Saints and Sinners: A Return To GWIME

Remoras, Predators, New Orleans Saints and Sinners: A Return To GWIME

theclassical.org — Early last week, Charles Star analogized the Saints defense to an excreta-gobbling remora hitching a ride on a megashark offense. On Friday afternoon, a NFL report revealed that this remora was something of a predator in its own right.
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Evolution and Extinction in New Orleans

Evolution and Extinction in New Orleans

theclassical.org — The New Orleans Saints defense, during the reign of departed defensive coordinator Gregg Williams, was offensive in any number of ways. But, when viewed in terms of evolutionary biology, it makes a strange sort of sense.
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On David Brooks On Jeremy Lin

On David Brooks On Jeremy Lin

theclassical.org — Or "what we talk about when we talk about David Brooks talking about Jeremy Lin in the same goofily high-handed way that he talks about pretty much everything." David Roth and Charles Star talk about that, in this post.
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Passover At Guy Fieri's House

Passover At Guy Fieri's House

theawl.com — Pretty self-explanatory imo.
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