Recent content by Double Down

I don't like it when people make jokes and say mean things about Whitlock's weight. It's body shaming and it's cruel and it also overlooks something important. Jason would be a shallow, broken, garbage person incapable of loving or being loved even if he was skinny or had abs like Cristiano...

I have mixed feelings about Maggie, but I don't see a lot of evidence that she "sat on" news to advance her own career with her book. I think she was pretty dogged in reporting things about Trump as they happened and as she got them. People want to believe this about her -- that she put her own...

Crying at how hard this made me laugh.

A man like Ringo has got a great big hole, right in the middle of himself. And he can never kill enough, or steal enough, or inflict enough pain to ever fill it.

That affiliation essentially ended when Craig Annis was let go by the USGA when Whan took over. But it is absurd to say the majors haven't credentialed influencers previously. I once played in a US Open media day at Shinnecock where Dave Portnoy played in the group behind me and hit unlimited...

All these are good ones, although I wonder if Musburger has even been to Montana in years. To write that story, you'd almost have to let Musberger hoist himself by his own petard because he'd undoubtably say a lot of stupid ****. It makes me feel a little sad that he excoriated John Carlos and...

There was probably some naiveté on my part too in the way I ran/framed some of those discussions. I'm sure some of it came across as talking down to the audience, even if what I hoped for was education or inspiration. I was in the middle of a unicorn run in journalism and so that's how I thought...

Haven't posted much in the last few years. Can't entirely say why. This place once meant a great deal to me. Now it seems like a town where I grew up, and still have fond (if complicated) memories about, but no longer wish to live in. Only occasionally pass through for a cup of coffee. And I...

That's very kind of you. The series was kind enough to misspell my name in notables twice over the years, which seems like its own badge of honor.

There is this strange fantasy that the Washington Post web team is stacked with the best and the brightest, that despite its gradual (and at times painful, clumsy) transition from a newspaper into a 24-7 news org, everyone there is like a member of the News Team Avengers, the best at his/her...

June 22, 2020.... Glenn Beck Radio Show 1/11/21 Glenn Beck: Jason I read a story that you are leaving Outkick. Didn't you just join Outkick? Whitlock: [chuckling] Yes. Listen, I'm not ... I ... I don't want to ... uh ... go into too much detail, but ... I'm just someone that you gotta deal...

Give me a f--ing break.

I can't stand Stephens, but I thought his essay was fair and has raised fair questions ... about the opening essay to 1619. Or to be more specific, about a single sentence in the opening essay. But that does not encompass the entire 1619 project, which its critics are quick to tap dance right...

When two people use memes to point out how tired each other's memes are.