Odd, that’s been the Cubs’ strategy for most of the past century.

Hey man, when we can’t dunk on Cricket stans, the imperialists have won.

I didn’t come here expecting to hear about cricket, but you know what? I’m down.

Detroit, because they are probably the largest city without a professional football team.

This is what they’re taught in the NFL now. You converge on the ball and smash the shit out of the ball carrier, because a violent collision is less likely to result in more yards than wrapping a guy up.

I get what you’re saying but I guess the idea is which team from this era will be more remembered in 20-30 years? Barca or Real?

When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more championships to buy.

More raisist than sexist but whatever.

I don’t think the networks have the bloat on sports coverage that ESPN did. For years ESPN basically had a monopoly on providing national sports news and commentary, and took advantage of that monopoly by massively expanding the number of ways to provide that. For a long time, if I wanted to hear about more than just…

Ah yes, that’s Kobe, always sacrificing individual success for the good of the team.

Is there anything more American than crony capitalism?

Shhhh don’t tell the yanks that other countries play other sports because they hate the narrative. The almighty slovenia they struggled to tie in 2010 is a big ,bad country where all they do is play soccer. It’s too bad that it’s a country of 2 million people , more known for skiing and alpine sports, that also plays…

Uruguay have a population of 3.5 million, we have 320 million. Thinning the population is not the reason. Uruguay are better than us in terms of talent.

Plenty of other countries have their talent pools thinned out by other sports. I’m Irish and our talent gets split mainly between soccer, rugby and our national sports; gaelic football and hurling. That’s a nation of just 4 million people.

How many comments stating why the MLS system is right and why the rest of the world is wrong will I see?

I agree, but with the caveat that this should be the case so long as the athlete doesn’t get special treatment by the courts due to being rich and/or famous

Once people realize that football players are humans like the rest of us, maybe we’ll stop holding them to these lofty standards. Sure, domestic abuse is horrible and the men and women who abuse others should totally be punished, and those that continue to do so should see a harsher punishment. But after they serve…

"Maybe they should read the rule book." -Tom Brady last week in reply to complaints about the Patriots' unique formations against the Ravens.

So I take it they're against net neutrality then? (/s)