I don't mean to be rude, but, I wonder why people's brains (not yours; people in general) turn to mush when the concept of paying students to play comes up.

The amount of bullshit that gets tossed around by people in the media trying to justify forcing players staying in college, or pressuring them to do so, will never cease to amaze me. I'm similarly not surprised by how much the average sports fan eats it up and pretends it's real because their opinions are informed…

I think Steve Kerr straight up said in an old B. S. Report interview that the NBA shouldn't lift the age restriction because right now the NCAA acts as a free minor league for the NBA and he (as a GM at the time) was worried about all the free scouting and development he would lose if the league went back to being…

I'm no fan of the NCAA, but from my observations, the bad guy here is the NBA. After all, it's not an NCAA rule that bans high schoolers from going directly into the NBA, it's a pro rule.

You're missing the point here. I don't disagree with you from a planning and development perspective. And I don't disagree with you from an incentive angle either—all subsidies aren't bad! But if the city is going to invest $284.5 million they should have some equity stake, no? This is the equivalent of literally…

As a former small market local TV station morning show producer, I would have killed to get this guy on first in the market. Why? Because he could get the talent to eat anything he made for them. He could have put a turd in a burrito and poured gravy over it and they would have eaten and said it was good on air. And…

How about nightmare single guy snow days? You and your boys head down to your local. Yay it's snowing! You have a few Jameson shots, a few Guinness. You are looking almost rugged in a flannel shirt. Across the bar sits a table of four. They are drinking hot toddys. You can't tell what is going on: Uggs, bulky…

All publicly-financed stadiums are scams. I'll skip over the decades of empirical economic research that shows conclusively what terrible civic investments these things are and just use basic logic: If sport facilities were actually profitable on their own, there wouldn't be a need for public money in the first place.…

Somewhere Pete Thamel rests a little easier...

I feel terrible for the guy. With such a close-knit, upstanding locker room, there's no way the Ravens will take a chance on a questionable deviant like Michael Sam.

The student may be right. Based on the write-up of the insult, the teacher's clearly not a fan of capitalism.

Verducci's obituary went live just 4 or so hours after the announcement and it is a thing of stupid stupidity and eluding facts that would destroy his eulogy. His biggest argument for Jeter as the best SS since Honus Wagner is built around the fact that he played there his whole career unlike, say, Ripken or Banks.…

"He understood from day one that it was better to be defined by championships than by statistics"

Darren Rovell sits down to his breakfast nook. He slowly opens his Chobani and sips his perfectly brewed Keurig cup of Starbucks coffee. He opens his Sports Illustrated, finding the article dedicated to the greatness of Derek Jeter.

"it could be argued that Jeter is the greatest player who ever lived... Think of all the ways we assess a player's career and tell me another player who ranks ahead of Jeter... "

Nick Denton: [Reads blueandorange93's comment]

Re: Strip Club DJ. I worked security at a strip club for about a year in college, and one of my good friends was "head of security" at the same club for a few years after. This was probably the best club in a low rent town, so it was not disgusting but definitely not an "upscale" place you'd find in major cities. Our…

... chuckleheads who wanted to argue that Michael Sam coming out "isn't news," ...