I was not on scholarship - non revenue sports tend to only have a handful to give, depending on the sport - and I was fortunate enough due to family support & working during school to avoid loans. The vast majority of my team was non-scholarshipped (but was varsity... so travel, hotels, team gear, training table, etc…

Dear Bob Bowlsby:

I don't knoblauch you are talking about.

Wow. Wow. Wow.

So, in all seriousness, this is a situation where if Goodell suspends Gordon it might accelerate the end of his life as a productive member of society. It would be better - even if appears overly weak - to sentence him to 18 months of unpaid (and off the field) half suspension where he can remain in a team…

Yes, it's a stopwatch portion of the watch. Glad someone pointed that out.

Appropriate use of caps lock in this instance: THIS IS A GAME.

Has anyone ever seen the pie face - into - Gatorade dump before? The A's seem to have an abnormally large quantity of walk-off pie beards, but I've never seen it followed up with the surprise gatorade bath.

"The Level, but not The Nature" of a distraction is pretty parsing. The reason the distraction had any LEVEL was because of its NATURE.

What you missed is that if they didn't work out a deal this year, and Parsons signed elsewhere, the Rockets would have no matching opportunity.

Well that's the wrong way to look at it. Dirk's deal is what it is, a great deal. You then had like $18M to spend on other players. You spent it on Devin Harris and Parsons. Suddenly, it doesn't look so good. You can't just make the Parsons overpay go away because Dirk is charitable.

Also interested to see how many of those players are academy products vs. $50,000,000 toys they bought like Goetze.

GAAP applies but only after gymnastics.

The way the salary cap works, the players get a percentage of all football relevated income. Its roughly 50%.

FWIW, the only reason they constantly renovate the stadium is because they have to spend those profits SOMEWHERE.

Any Tottenham Hotspur fan could have called this would be Benny weeks ago. That dude be crazy.

If we can get Gedion Zelalem, we might have a #10 for the next 3 or 4 world cups (he'd be 21, 25, 29, and 33)

Looking at the current teams w/ cap space is a fool's errand. Any team can clear the $22M if Lebron wants to come there. The Clippers, Warriors, Bulls, any host of almost contenders.

UPDATE: There's a deadspin article on this, but Adam Silver announced him as drafted *by the NBA* as a mid-first round pick. He took a photo with the commish like all first rounders, but his hat was the league's logo not a team's. He was breaking down when it happened. Massive standing ovation. A truly great…

Go Stanford, indeed!