Manchester United. They're sort of the Dallas Cowboys or New York Yankees of English soccer.

The gameplay of Star Control II is pretty basic. The fun part is interacting with the various races and learning the history of the galaxy. Every character has its own backstory full of delightful little details that you can discover, all of which add up to what feels like a realistic universe. An incredibly…

[Front Page Sports Football Pro '95]

Why: A sophisticated, realistic pro football sim that still looks good and plays well. Has features of much later games: play editor, career mode, camera placement, modding, arcade and manager modes. Be sure to get '95 or '96, the series struggled after that with bugs and…

I remember Sierra Front Page Football well. Outstanding depth and complexity for a game of its era.

I have no idea if people still play Zynga games, because awhile back I went to Zynga's Wikipedia page and app-blocked every single game that was listed.

The Two Escobars and Without Bias are the two that stand out in my mind. Tough to pick a favorite between those two. The list has them in the Top 3, and that godawful rotisserie baseball one near the bottom, so I'd say the list gets it right.

I once had a job answering the support phones for ESPN Fantasy Football, which has a "share team" feature. The only people who ever asked me about it were #3, fathers co-running a team with their young sons. I think it's just a way to get around ESPN's "you must be 18" requirement for fantasy football.

Which raises a question: if using multiple helmets is unsafe, why does the NCAA have no rule protect unpaid college student-athletes from being forced to do so?

The others are entries in a PhotoShop contest. This is a work of art.

Larry Coker and Frank Solich as "school's reigning pariah coach"? I think you meant Randy Shannon and Bill Callahan.

I do too. It's probably awful, but at least it's the entertaining kind of awful.

Well said. And the part you quoted really bothered me, because you'd think Albom would know who Anissa Jones was.

I was going to say the crowd was pretty impressive, considering it's Texas, and the major state schools had college football games going on.

Also, the Titans have a low schadenfreude factor. These gaffes are much more popular when they happen to teams NFL fans love to hate, or at least love to make fun of.

Meanwhile, the Big Ten Network is figuring out how to make this into an hour-long program.

Clearly, you've never met anyone from Cuba. They'd swim to Zimbabwe if it were an option.

Seconded. Also, the edition I read also had a great "where are they now" section at the end, where Davies catches up with most of the players, and they comment further on the events in the book. Some of them even disagree with how they were portrayed. It's a fascinating read, for its honesty, and also because the same…

Does anybody ever actually play the TV-watching ones, though? I've seen all the other varities in action, but I thought "TV show drinking game" was just some lame internet template joke and not a thing people actually do.

Huh? Crouch tried to play quarterback in pretty much every other pro football league that existed, and one that didn't (AAFL), as recently as 2011. That's pretty much the opposite of decently going off into the sunset.