Wait there was a USMNT game last night?

the U.S. has to play well enough to maintain perceptions that they’re top-6 in CONCACAF to capitalize on their rule change.

Well ... he was on the field.

Bet you can’t guess the US player who lost the ball leading to Canada’s first goal

Watching the team try to form some sort of coherent offensive strategy last night was like watching a monkey try to fuck a football. At a basic level you understand what it’s trying to do, but in the end it’s just confusion and embarrassment for everything involved. 

Didn’t see the game, but I’ll just assume Michael Bradley played.

with no guarantee that it won’t suffer the same fate as the last qualification cycle.

I think she’s saying “I’d feel awful if something similar happened to my son”, not that her son's participation in band is actually at stake. She's still avoiding consideration of the actual rules and consequences for breaking them, though 

The very people for who the phrases ‘they’re rapists, they bring crime’ resonate are the same people who will defend Art Briles.

If it brings good people to our town and increases our property value, I’m good with that.

Plus, aside from the whole “It’s not immoral if we’re the ones doing it” hypocrisy that is a cornerstone of these small town religious conservatives, I can’t believe how idiotic it is on a practical level as well in this case.

He’s making $82,000 to be football coach and AD for the school (and I’m willing to bet that most of the AD duties will be handled by a secretary or other staffer). Why do I have the feeling the average teacher salary in Mount Vernon, Texas is a lot less than that...

“If it brings good people to our town and increases our property value, I’m good with that.”

This is small-town, religious-conservative America aptly summed up in a single sentence.

These people aren’t ignorant of what’s going on, they just *don’t care*. Their sense of priorities are so askew that it’s impossible to…

Yeah, but where were they possibly going to find a high school coach in Texas who HASN’T been caught covering up massive sexual assault allegations?

I meant this as a joke, but as I typed it out I remembered that a coach in my hometown hit-and-ran and killed a black mother and her daughter and then only got probation. …

This looks really bad. Fortunately for him, the Raiders may sign him one...

“I’ll shoot yo ass in the fucking head before you walk out that door with my son.”

It shouldn’t be possible for me to hold these two opinions simultaneously - I suppose I’m a massive hypocrite.

As a Mariners fan I’m ok with this. If the M’s were in the world series we’d all be dealing with baseballs version of the 12's

Put this statement about the Mariners in a time capsule, open it after 10–heck, 15–years, and this statement will still be true.

Congrats to the Nats - a grateful nation thanks you for saving us from a Cardinals-Yankees World Series. But the Nats will always be the Expos to me: