Assuming any sports book would have taken the action, what kind of odds do you think you’d have gotten if you said “I want to bet that when the Bears play the Rams, only 1 total touchdown will be scored and it’ll be scored by Bradley Sowell”? 10,000-1?

If they’ve got a cozy relationship with Jerry Reinsdorf, then basically infinity times.

I also go into Golden Girls, Frasier, and Cheers withdrawal this time of year.

Yeah, they added non-white actors (which is good) without changing anything else about the movies. My wife and in-laws were watching Christmas Everlasting and the least believable thing was that a small town in Wisconsin was that diverse.

When I was in middle school and high school, EVERYONE used “retarded” and “gay” casually as slurs.

The only way it would have been better is if some hapless Jags defender had torn his ACL celebrating, a la Lamarr Houston celebrating a meaningless sack of Jimmy Garoppolo when the Patriots were blowing out the Bears in 2014.

Not only everything you said, but casinos have no incentive to do that. Math ensures that a slot machine set to return a particular amount to the player over a long period of time will do so, and the casino is guaranteed to profit. Even if they didn’t fear penalties for doing so, there’s no need to mess around with…

I mean, if you think that no one should ever go to a casino more than about once a year or so, I guess that could be true.

With more competition in public utilities (capitalism), utility providers would be beholden to the market. If your water provider has a lead based infrastructure, you could possibly have another choice.

It’s truly terrifying how many people get infections in hospitals.

I would really love to know what was said before the altercation got physical. There have been reports that she used a racial slur, but I’m not clear on how much evidence there is backing that up.

You’re right about the non-short week...I didn’t think about that. I’d still bet that the Cowboys will be one and done in the playoffs.

[checks Football Outsiders]

When I read Alexander’s story, the vague reference to personal problems made me question the entire premise of the story. I didn’t know anything about Stanich and I didn’t assume domestic violence, but I instantly suspected that everything Alexander was saying about how fame was the problem was bullshit.

If he had a conscience, maybe he could’ve discuss guilt he felt about praising a man who tried to strangle his own wife and prolonging the business’s success.

The total darkness is what makes this so difficult in my mind. I started thinking about how much I’d have to be paid to spend 30 days in complete isolation from the outside world if the terms were different and I was allowed to have books to read, and then I realized that the answer is zero, because that sounds…

30 days is a lot shorter than the people were in that cave, though. I would think knowing that you were only there for a fixed amount of time would go a long way toward mitigating that. Plus there’s the whole voluntary thing...when you look at the effects of solitary confinement in prison or as a form of torture, you…

I don’t think they have any (known) domestic abusers on the team now, but Ray McDonald was briefly a Bear in 2015, and the way Pace and ownership handled that was embarrassing.

Anyone who names their kid something ridiculous like that should be mocked.

Regarding David Chao...THANK YOU! After he assessed Mitch Trubisky’s shoulder injury (which, gulp, was supposed to be just fine by now), everyone I follow in Chicago sports media was retweeting him and talking about what a credible source he is. I had to Google him and be sure I wasn’t confusing him with someone else…