I feel bad for the Clips players for various reasons, but it's a tough to ask these guys who've spent their entire lives training for this moment to just throw the playoffs away to make a point. Boycotting regular season games is one thing, but the playoffs? Some of these guys will never reach the playoffs again in…

"A man whose $12.5 million investment in the Clippers is now worth 50 times that"

Keep in mind that goalies may shade to their strengths. So Quick would rather take away the blocker side via positioning and force you to beat his glove. Sure, more goals go in versus his glove hand in that instance, but it's fewer goals overall than if he didn't force a majority of shots on goal in that direction…

So if Ivey takes home $12 million because the dealer was willing to accommodate his "superstitions" and because Ivey is "a big tipper", how big is the tip?

I'm generally inclined to give Lebron the benefit of the doubt, but if he just banks that in layup style, he scores, right?

The reason there will not be another single president is because his/her entire campaign would be dogged by the "is (s)she gay??!!?!?" breathless tabloid coverage. It would be suffocating.

Technically they are "Sigils", not insignias.

From a reader of the books who actually knows what's going on, let me say emphatically: This is not true.

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.