I would agree that the author's warning should have been sufficient, and that anyone reading these comments should have known what's up. Sure it would be nice if everyone pre-empted their comments with their own "spoiler alert" tag, but it seems you and I agree that is not going to happen. It's a buyer beware world.

"More than a bit of a stretch" that Guardiola is the most revered manager in the game? Um, Wut??

If you're not interested in spoiling, then what is the point of this post? To kind of spoil?

Here's a *Spoiler Alert* from a book reader: If you read web blog comments, someone will spoil the books for you. It won't be me, but it will be someone (it takes literally one in the millions upon millions of readers to do this). You only have yourself to blame at this point. And just because one of the millions…

Azerbijan has decided to cede the catchphrase "Land of Fire" to Diego Costa's right foot for the remainder of 2014.

Just carry a huge ass AD&D policy or term life policy then. The dude is 22 and the picture of health... do we really think that a 1-year, $10M policy would be all that expensive (1 year because we're only talking about his "low" $1M salary for this year)? It would be pennies (if not fractions of pennies) on the…

He will be fine. Banks lend to businesses against their COI ("contractually obligated income") all the time. Trout now has $144M of COI that's fully guaranteed (except for accidental death, I suppose). As a result, any bank worth its salt can easily lend him whatever he needs (in so much as one "needs" to live like…

This is beyond brilliant.

The Jordan era had even less parity than this one.

Which is why I wonder if, let's just suppose Trout hits the market at 26 years old. I wonder if an enterprising team would offer him $50 a year for 3 or 4 years. He locks in $150M or $200M (depending on 3 or 4 year deal term), and if he doesn't drop off he's almost certainly due for ANOTHER nine figure contract at…

Is this new? I first saw the on-field (ice) projection at a SJ Sharks game a few years ago. Looked like sharks were circling under the ice when the players warmed up (see 6:45 here). It was pretty sweet.

Dearest WizeCrax,

In all seriousness, the one thing I found shocking about this comparison was that cheerleader skirts are now more conservative than they used to be. If the SI (Swimsuit) people were in charge they'd be painted on by now.

Wait, what? Maybe for a year or two. I've never heard Jared Allen, Justin Smith, JJ Watt, etc compared to Kearney

It's like wearing nothing at all!

Thank you, obliques is the word I was scrounging for.

Forget the arms. These muscles (whatever it is that's above your hipbone) are the real signs of putting in work. Those suckers only pop out if you're working your ass off. I had those as a college athlete and they've been on the side of a milk carton ever since (despite a workout routine likely on par with most…

I like the way you work it, Ted Ligety.

I don't think so... Shane is a skiing god, but the Slarve is completely different.

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