The best football coach I ever had refused to give me a playbook because I wasn’t a starter, and when asked why I wasn’t a starter, told me it was because I didn’t know the plays. 

“If you’re turning to sports journalists to put that in perspective... ouch. Clay Travis and Colin Cowherd are “good” at talking about sports and that is it.”

If you’re turning to sports journalists to put that in perspective... ouch. Clay Travis and Colin Cowherd are “good” at talking about sports and that is it. Obviously there are some sports journalists more intelligent than those guys, but the aspects of the business of sports that affect every day life in a city are…

A lot of things are different since those games started. This is a bad point.

The men who invented baseball, footbal, hockey and basketball didn’t do so to advance social justice. They also didn’t conceive of these games thinking that some day they’d be multi-billion dollar industries either. Nor did they conceive of these games thinking that multi-billion dollar empires would rise by simply…

Just because sports started out being played for fun (which is a dubious claim to begin with; see here for example), doesn’t mean they must stay in that lane forever. Especially now that there’s so damn much money involved, the business, political, and social issues surrounding sports are inescapably tied to our…

“I like a beer...”

I didn’t notice the seal wearing a naughty school girl outfit...

NEVER...NO PEACE WITH CANDA EVER...

I don’t know what the fuck that eagle is doing, but that is absolutely not a Canada Goose.

That’s... that’s not even a Canada Goose

Yeah, but the wedding was in Maine so... WE WIN!!!

“I still have not forgotten the War of 1812.”

They’re a regular Romegoal and Julinet

Yes!

My options:

You tell your old man to drag a coked-up Aaron Sorkin up and down the court for 48 minutes a night 12 episodes a season

My dad says you’r a lazy writer who relies on the monster of the week plot line too often. He says you only write hard for sweeps.

Roger, Roger.

“I’m sorry, Lauren, but you must have me confused for someone else. My name is Roger Murdock. I’m a staff writer.”