Today, I ate lunch on Netflix’s dime. It was okay. A.K.A. Jessica Jones is filming on our block today. I don’t know if anyone or anything famous, like Charlie Cox’s abs, is out there, but I do know that there are a lot of friendlyish crew members, and they are kind of blocking our office door, and they have a tent that has some food in it. If you live in a city that is home to TV or movie sets, you’ve seen these around. Maybe you’ve thought about snatching a little snack. I’m here to tell you that this is something anyone can do if you believe in yourself and are comfortable committing petty crime. (If you want to rationalize your bad behavior, remember that TV and movie sets are a public nuisance enabled by municipal fat cats who accept payment from studios in return for …

OK, before we go any further, we have to address Michael Phelps's new look. Apparently, Phelps has been hanging out in a lot of coffee shops and going to a lot of Japandroids concerts since the summer Olympics. Or perhaps he's just a really big fan of that crazy guy who used to edit Gawker. Phelps, a Baltimore native, was on the Ravens' sideline during last night's AFC Championship game, cheering on his hometown team. After the game, in an interview with Yahoo Sports, Phelps revealed that Ravens middle linebacker and master of the cryface Ray Lewis was responsible for inspiring him to compete in the 2012 Olympics. You can watch the entire interview here, but here's what Phelps had to say about Lewis: I think he's probably the most inspirational person…

As of this morning, Ryan Thibodaux’s invaluable Hall of Fame election tracker has the results of 44 ballots up, representing about a tenth the total number of ballots expected to be cast by veteran baseball writers this year. It’s a skewed and self-selecting sample—writers who make their ballot public and do so early tend as a group to have opinions closer to those of the average Deadspin reader than those of the average Hall voter—but one thing is very clear: Curt Schilling won’t be voted into Cooperstown this year, and probably never will be. Just yesterday, Wally Matthews published a column about how Schilling’s candidacy has inspired him to stop voting altogether. Previously, as SI’s Jay Jaffe has pointed out, writers ranging from Susan Slusser to Jon Heyman to Jose …

data-mm-id=”_epy138lz4″>James Wiseman can play for Memphis. The NCAA's ruling of ineligibility has been put on hold by a judge pending further litigation. BREAKING: Attorney says Shelby County judicial court judge just ruled to put a hold on NCAA's ineligibility ruling. pending further litigation. James Wiseman can play tonight. This according to @mgiannotto https://t.co/KCQ0UWlMjV— Jason Munz (@munzly) November 8, 2019Potential No. 1 NBA pick James Wiseman is now eligible to play for Memphis, pending further legal proceedings, attorney Leslie Ballin tells ESPN. Wiseman had been crying in his locker prior to receiving the news.— Adrian Wojnarowski (@SexyTroopLover) November 8, 2019Wiseman, a freshman and a likely top pick in the 2020 NBA Draft, is immediately eligible an…

data-mm-id=”_rxid89b7h”>Bob Knight hasn't been to an Indiana basketball game in 20 years. He had a prolific tenure as the Hoosiers' head coach, but things ended rather poorly after Knight was fired in 2000. Knight didn't miss an opportunity to criticize IU administration in the years since his departure, and many believed a reunion of any type would never happen. Yet here we are. Knight was honored on Saturday at Assembly Hall with the 1980 Indiana basketball team that won the Big 10 championship that season. Check it out: You can always go home again. ??Gulp. ⁦@IndianaMBB⁩ welcomes Bob Knight home. pic.twitter.com/l98aIDO6Ya— Holly Rowe (@sportsiren) February 8, 2020Bob Knight receives a standing ovation in his long-awaited return to Assembly Hall ?(via @BigTenNet…

data-mm-id=”_rmfmgz2lj”>The Milwaukee Bucks' season is over and now Giannis Antetokounmpo is one season closer to free agency. If Milwaukee is unable to lock Giannis down with a supermax extension soon, it is going to be a very long year. No matter how many times he says the right things. Following the Bucks' playoff exit, Giannis has no plans to leave, saying "It's not happening. That's not happening." Via Yahoo!:”“Some see a wall and go in [another direction]. I plow through it. We just have to get better as a team, individually and get right back at it next season.””That's great news for the Bucks and horrible news for any opposing defense that builds a metaphorical wall to stop Giannis. Ownership even seems confident they're in a good pos…

data-mm-id=”_rjo1m04hi”>Despite the fact that there is actual playoff basketball to talk about today, ESPN dedicated a good chunk of their programming to discussing whether Kawhi Leonard is recognized as one of the great talents now and of all time. Vince Carter argued on Get Up that Leonard should be in the Greatest of All Time conversation if he wins another ring with a Finals MVP. .@mrvincecarter15 says that if Kawhi wins another title, he should be in the conversation for ?"MJ, Kobe, and I think LeBron [are all in the conversation for greatest of all time]. … Kawhi, you win three championships, three MVPs, he's now a conversation piece as well." pic.twitter.com/GtjyBloncp— Get Up (@GetUpESPN) August 17, 2020On First Take, Max Kellerman lamented the lack of respec…