To me this is so much simpler than the NFL is making it. Everyone is wringing their hands over what to do about highly contentious judgment calls, and my answer for those is to do nothing. Most games have PI calls or non-calls that some people think are questionable. The issue is that on relatively rare occasions,…

It’s so NFL that this proposal was created in response to the egregious non-call against the Rams, and it wouldn’t address that particular scenario. (As I understand it, the proposal says you could review a PI flag, but you couldn’t review an unflagged play to add a penalty).

pointing out that he signed an extremely long contract that practically means he will never be a big-ticket free agent

He took the opportunity to guarantee himself generational wealth at a time when he had not yet guaranteed it. Kind of weird to call that “betting against himself.”

I love this, and I’ll go one step farther: have it interface with real-time weather/traffic info and prohibit drivers from being anywhere but the farthest-right lane if they’re going under the speed limit (assuming optimal conditions, of course). I commute on a three-lane 70mph interstate and it is beyond depressing…

As John Romano notes in the Tampa Bay Times, a $100,000 bonus would have represented just two-tenths of one percent of the team’s MLB-low payroll.

When prospects like Eloy Jimenez or Brandon Lowe sign team-friendly deals covering their arbitration years, it’s because they know the alternative is service-time manipulation, minor league exile, and the Blake Snell Treatment

Yeah, I don’t know what the person who wrote that was smoking but I want some. Unless you’re trashing the room which you shouldn’t be doing anyway, $5/day is pretty generous.

In Vegas it’s a policy now. If you leave your Do Not Disturb sign out for more than a certain amount of time (I think it’s the 2nd day?), they’ll have security enter your room.

I don’t know what the percentage is, but I agree that a lot of people don’t know about it. I don’t think my parents ever did, and my in-laws didn’t until my wife mentioned it to them.

I don’t think requesting a trade is a mortal sin or anything, but...Anthony Davis willingly signed a 5-year, $127M fully guaranteed contract. And he has two full seasons left on that contract after this season is over.

I agree about supporting labor over ownership, but as a fan I want my team to spend heavily on payroll, and allocate those dollars in the best way to try to win championships.

I guess he’s opting for the security now, but a) the $144M he’s already earned is more than enough to be set for life if he’s not dumb, and b) it’s hard to envision what could happen in the next 2 seasons to make him earn substantially less than the contract he’s about to sign.

It sounds like the problem is that people who are only focused on the bottom line don’t see any issue with treating critical aircraft systems like iPhones. I work in software so I definitely understand the push to cut costs, rely on automation, and not spend a ton of resources trying to guard against unlikely…

I discovered Lucinda Williams’s music in the spring of ‘05 and have many fond memories of coming back to my dorm room after a late-morning class and listening to Car Wheels on a Gravel Road with the windows open and the warm breeze blowing in. It’s probably 90% that memory, but I would still argue that there’s…

You know, I was finding the premise of this article really compelling and found myself nodding my head about how Netflix churns out copycat shows until I got to this:

It’s also rich that this is coming from a club that is choosing to keep an exciting prospect in Vlad Guerrero Jr. down to basically prevent him from racking up service time in the Majors.

Anyone who can have their experience ruined by someone at another table silently using their phone should reconsider going out in public. I’m sure if it wasn’t the guy two tables over taking a picture of his food, they’d be something else to complain about.

I’m confused by how the possibility that she called him the N-word has been completely ignored since right after this was reported. If that’s because no reputable source ever confirmed that it happened and it was determined that his camp made it up to make him look better, then I’d like to know that. It makes a pretty…

A salary cap can’t mitigate the impact of bad ownership (hi, Washington!) but it can make it nearly impossible to build a dynasty; outside of the Patriots, who have arguably both the top coach of all time and one of the top QBs (who also takes a below-market salary because his wife is rich), it at least means that…