For 99.9% of people, anything other than passive investment through index funds or target-date funds (if you have access to one with minimal fees) is a bad decision. You’re not smart enough to beat the market.

I do wonder if the continued devaluing of the kicking game would lead a team to do this. I feel like eliminating kickoffs as has been discussed would help greatly. Teams are already going for two and going for it on 4th down more often; they’d just need a backup player who could plausibly deliver a couple of mediocre…

What about the children and grandchildren of the Fox News demographic, who are probably not receiving much of an education in school regarding critical thinking and examining biases? We write them off as lost causes at our own peril.

I used to work for a company whose billionaire CEO had a cult of personality around her based on how brilliant and innovative and disruptive she was. (The gender might reveal which company, but whatever, I’ve been gone for years now). Despite their constant PR efforts to lead people to believe otherwise, it was a…

She’s wrong, of course, but unlike 99.9% of the people defending the sham of amateurism at least she lives it herself. It’s so much worse when people who make their very handsome livings off of college sports still argue for unpaid players.

So Foster’s the best goalie the Hawks have had all year since Crawford got hurt?

Good question...the Blackhawks affiliate is just in Rockford which is a couple hours drive away. Maybe they didn’t realize that the starter’s injury would keep him out until right before the game? Either that or they felt like in a lost season where they were already going to be down to their 3rd option for this game,…

I wonder what the realistic income opportunities are for a successful enough podcast. Most of the ones I listen to are pretty small-time and have little or no sponsorship. But I was really surprised to hear how much some YouTube stars are earning (far beyond what I could have imagined), so maybe an extremely…

That’s true to some extent. There are certainly very few technical barriers to a live podcast, but once you start talking about an every day format then it’s back to the question of who’s going to pay someone enough money to do it for a living?

Valid point, but I’m not sure we’re at all close to the point where listenership to local sports talk radio sinks low enough that advertisers pull out completely. If I want to hear the real-time reaction (from both hosts and other listeners) to, say, yesterday afternoon’s Bears game, I’m still tuning in to radio…

I won’t say never, but local sports talk radio will be the last radio medium to die. Podcasts are great and they offer more freedom and the ability to dive deeper into topics, but they don’t have the immediacy and listener interaction of radio.

Up until a couple weeks ago I would have said 670 The Score in Chicago is fantastic. Entercom’s apparently trying to kill them, too.

My default assumption at this point is that everything a cop says is a lie.

I bet we find out that the driver was a minimum wage temp contractor and Uber knew all along she was basically doing nothing. Because of course, that’s cheaper than actually having a technician of some type behind the wheel.

You joke, but honestly? Gather 32 fans (1 of each team) in a bar to watch the game. If a catch is in dispute, take a vote. In the event of a tie, call on the field stands. (I thought about saying 30 fans, eliminating fans of the teams playing each other, then realized that if they make their decision based on rooting…

Well said. There are many things to get mad at MLB owners for, but using the service time rules to their advantage is not one of them. To argue that a team should act against its own interests when not required by rule to do so is absurd. There’s nothing underhanded about maximizing the amount of time they have a…

I’m beginning to think that Deion Sanders isn’t very smart.

Sneaker budgets, athletic scholarships, and a $50M athletic center. And this is for a moribund program in the NAIA that struggles to field a team.

I think while second-guessing trades is interesting, the bottom line is that if the Jets pick right they’ll be competitive for years and if they pick wrong everyone will be fired.

Yup. And although Ryan Pace apologists will counter that another team might have been angling to move up to 2, I will always argue that if that was true, the Bears would have had to give up even more.