I’m not sure what Arsenal fans you talk to, but I’m very certain that the vast, vast majority of the fanbase wants Emery gone.

He’s probably a plug-and-play starter at left back. We have another decent RB in Yedlin, with Cannon and Lima able to do a job as well, but there is precisely jack and shit available at left back.

Because without that penalty, the game would devolve into a hackfest anytime the ball got anywhere near the goal.

Oh, of course.  Shortening the season like that doesn't work at all in any real-life scenario; it would just make me way more likely to actually watch regular season baseball more than 4 times a year.

The regular season runs about 27 weeks. A weekend-only schedule (Friday night, Saturday/Sunday afternoon) would cut the schedule in half.

The Raiders are "home" v. Chicago in London, so this was their last game in Oakland before the baseball season ends.

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Billy is Deadspin’s Colin Cowherd please don’t @ me

“Asked why tee times were not moved up far earlier in the day, Russell said: ‘I think if we did that every time we had a possibility of thunderstorms in the Southeast, we’d do that basically every time we played golf.’”

Gedion Zelalem is a USL starter, MLS reserve for Kansas City. Why is he referenced in this article at all?

My mom thought the moon actually changed shape throughout its phases until she was like, 25.

The only way to stop a bad guy with a knife is a Bosnian with two fists and no sense of fear.

I went to Yellowstone in 2006 or so, and I remember being handed this flyer on the way into the park:

That isn't Bob Bradley.  It's Zak Abdel, LAFC's goalkeeping coach.

Ricky Bones

Maybe we should get rid of the draft altogether and let players sign where they want, instead of forcing them to go play at below-market salaries in places they don't want to be for teams that have no interest in actually winning.

I wrote a paper in undergrad about how Peruvian football in the 1960s and 70s helped accelerate the multiracial development of the country.  Writing about subjects you care about makes the whole research process so much more enjoyable.

One of the dumb anti-vax points of support is that the flu vaccine is only ~50% effective, but they expand that number to ALL vaccines, not realizing why that number is as low as it is.

What makes this extra dumb is that, assuming Concacaf wants to send 6 teams straight to the Hex, there’s already a perfect competition already set up to do it - the Nations League, and it wraps up in March 2020, which fits this timeline perfectly.

It creates a wonderful platform for the Stephen Miller-wannabes to spout their misogynistic bullshit from a slightly different perspective.