Tell us how you really feel

Evgeny Trefilov, Russia’s team handball coach, after his team’s loss to South Korea in the quarterfinals

On the result:
"You want me to explain what happened and say I am not guilty? It will never happen. I am guilty full stop. It wasn’t the team who lost the match it was me who totally lost it."

On his future and the future of Russian handball:
”There are no prospects for Russian handball. None whatsoever. However, if my immediate resignation would have helped it, I would’ve submitted it right now. I’m afraid nothing will help Russian handball as things stand at the moment.”

"There are no talented youths in Russian handball at the moment. The generation of over 30s is going and there’s no-one in Russia who could take their place."

"Actually the same is going to happen to Norway or Spain, but I am only talking about Russia. Our first division is (just) kids playing around. There are no serious players there."

What is the record for the Ancient Games?

It is maybe only human nature that people, when placed together, procreate to some extent, but that libidinous cocktail means London 2012 officials have been right to make 150, 000 condoms — a record for the modern Games — available to the Village’s frisky inhabitants, according to CNN’s source.

Yes, I would think going home would lower productivity.

Like other ultracompetitive Silicon Valley companies, it wants employees to feel very comfortable at work–so much so that they aren’t tempted to engage in such productivity-killing activities as running errands or going home at the earliest opportunity.

Statement attributable to Nicholas Delpopolo:

"My positive test was caused by my inadvertent consumption of food that I did not realize had been baked with marijuana, before I left for the Olympic Games. I apologize to U.S. Olympic Committee, to my teammates, and to my fans, and I am embarrassed by this mistake. I look forward to representing my country in the future, and will re-dedicate myself to being the best judo athlete that I can be."

"It is very difficult to understand women in general."

— Evgeny Trefilov, head coach of the Russian women’s handball team

(And, not for nothing, but the modern pentathlon features riding, shooting, fencing, running, and swimming. They shouldn’t give out a gold medal for winning this thing. They should put you in a Dos Equis commercial.)

"Modern Love" is, to me, basically an ongoing crime against humanity. But first-person pronouns aren’t the same thing as rampaging authorial ego, necessarily.

At the top of the food chain, however, fans are more sensitive. They have ideas about their club. It’s not just a motley crew: it’s a destination. The table is tilted in the big clubs’ favour, and it would be rude of the players not to be grateful to roll on down. But if a club is just a vehicle for a player’s lust for cash and glory, the dynamic changes. As much as it’s a privilege for a player to join a big club, it’s become a privilege for the club to have the player. The distance between the player and the supporter is thus more explicit than ever before. This disconnect prompts an ever-growing melancholy in the supporter of the big club. the supporter may alleviate it by invoking the club’s long and proud history, or by pointing out the permanence of the club and its suporters’ loyalty, or by figuratively waving around the club’s riches in fans of high-denomination banknotes. But it’s still there, as the supporter waits for the player to give the yea or nay. You’re at the mercy of those you once expected to serve you like hired help. The fan of the big club is like a royal removed from the civil list.

The putative rubric for Sununu’s diatribe is “job creation” — Obama doesn’t understand jobs because he lived in Hawaii and Indonesia and used to smoke marijuana. It’s as good a theory as any, I suppose.

Gessen had recalled the area as "desolate" when he threw the launch party for n+1 a mere eight years ago. That party was also a moment of crystallisation. "I remember having to get more alcohol and seeing a long line for the elevator outside," he said. "I couldn't believe the interest – right from the start it turned out there were a lot of people who were really excited by this." →

I liked the part where they described touch football: “On a bright, perfectly dry spring morning he could be found in Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, where he and a group of friends meet regularly on Saturdays to play touch football – essentially American football minus the tackling.”

#TeamRondo

"When it comes to basketball, Rondo is the smartest player on the team – one of the smartest players in the league," one locker-room source said. "And Ray considers himself a smart guy. But at some point, it became hard for Ray to be corrected by a guy so much younger than him."

"Necessarily" seems unncessary

Bryant has been an incredible force for Bynum’s development, pushing him long and hard, but nurturer isn’t necessarily one of his gifts.

Sometimes color is unnecessary

Mr. Lefkofsky, known for wearing sweater vests each day during the long Chicago winters…