What MLB doesn’t get: People who don’t like baseball aren’t going to all of a sudden fall in love with baseball because the games are 30 minutes shorter. Manfred is tearing down the sport so that MLB’s Instagram feed gets more likes. It’s incredibly short-sighted.

Right? They’re trying to make baseball appealing to non-baseball and/or non-sports fans. It most likely went down like this: MLB hired a bunch of social media wizards to give a big presentation, where they threw in buzz-word BS like: “Today’s influencers want immediate gratification. They get bored easily and need…

Man, I dunno. I hope you’re right - for the sake of the university’s reputation she needs to go.

You seem to be assuming that USC is going to boot our favorite, new, love-to-hate little snowflake, Olivia. I’d be absolutely shocked if they did kick her out. They’re going to say something like “she’s facing amazing challenges now and that’s the type of student we support here at USC” or some bullshit.

Her Twitter feed is just absolutely AWFUL. It’s 10-out-of-10 on the “hate-read-o-meter” scale. Paris Hilton is a rocket scientist compared to this ditz.

Yeah. Hard to NOT call this article out with quotes like this:

Right. Really, no studies? Okay...and if there were studies, what do we think they’d say?

I’m a bleeding heart liberal hippie, and I also find the “you’re the real racist” taunts to be pretty stupid. That said, I do think this article missed the mark.

It sounds like she knows she cheated, but doesn’t really think it’s a “big deal” and had no idea how much shit she’d take from the running community. Her next mistake was doubling-down on her lie, again not realizing how seriously the marathon crowd takes that kind of thing. Just a clueless, brainless, Instagram…

I dunno. Vero Beach is about a 2-hour drive from Orlando, seems kinda out of the way.

They don’t fail because many college programs provide the answers to the tests beforehand and/or allow soft-grading from advisors.

Okay so blame the NBA for not lowering their age restriction. The NCAA is certainly flawed but paying student-athletes for their “work” (your words) is completely ridiculous.

Was picking an obscure sport. Could be the men’s crew team, no problem. My point was to highlight how many student athletes there are at any particular university. There are thousands of them playing sports that most people outside of their parents aren’t watching.

I have to agree with you on that. Those rosters are huge, too. Still don’t think they should be paid but you make a good point re: playing abroad.

I myself live outside the USA - nothing wrong with some international experience for these guys. Hoops players between ages 16-18 are playing abroad all over Europe. You think Ricky Rubio never left Spain before he came to the NBA? Porzingis is fluent in Spanish because he lived abroad at age 16. If you think the USA…

This racist wing-nut will be running as fast as she can to the right-wing media about this. I predict the future headline will be: “White woman gets death threats from black thugs on Twitter for expressing her right to free speech”. You can bank on it - it’s right out of the playbook at this point. Just wait, you’ll…

Yeah, the headline on this article is pretty tasteless. Makes it sounds like Boeheim had a moment of road rage or something. “Freak highway accident involving car driven by Jim Boehim results in fatality” or something. “Jim Boeheim hit and killed a guy” is not exactly fair to Jim and pretty crappy from a site that…

Tom, you do realize Zion could have gone and played overseas in Australia or Croatia or Spain or whatever and got paid, right? It’s not like there’s some vast conspiracy forcing every talented 18 year-old basketball player to play for free. He can go anywhere and get paid. He chose to go to Duke. Jesus H. Christ.…

Yeah I kinda agree. This isn’t horrible, but honestly I think in about 20 years they’re going to let fans vote via instagram (or whatever’s the 2039 version of instagram) on whether or not a baseball team should do an infield shift in the World Series. “Annndd yes, Bob! The fans have voted and the Austin Hipsters will…

And she was so damn smug and proud of herself at the time about it: “By God, they were trafficking that kid”. This is just as bad as those redneck pussies carrying guns down in Nogales because “By God, I’m protecting our national border”.