"Messi, Agüero, Higuain, and a healthy di María are four of the most devastating attacking players in the world, and Argentina depended on any two or three of them throughout the tournament to do magical things as an isolated, outnumbered unit while the other seven or eight Argentines shored up the defense, and since…

Listen. When you call people bags of shit and cunts and tell them to commit suicide, you're the internet asshole. I can guarantee that none of the people he responded to said anything worse than that to him.

No, sorry. This is the first time.

Ugh. Logo design contests are awful.

not the group of death Greg, no matter how many times you say it

Why does everyone keep saying Jozy needs service to be effective? Can't we just admit he's terrible? 2 goals in around 50 appearances in the Premier League, no discernible talent apart from the odd rocket goal against some shit Caribbean team, he brings nothing to the table.

"But fuck all that. It's Friday. Wilbon's my man. I'm going to Coney Island tonight to ride roller coasters and eat hot dogs with some friends of whom I'm very fond. Let's just chalk this up to trolling and go home."

It's a shame, if only ShaneMorris hadn't picked basketball over soccer, the US might actually have a shot at getting out of our group this time around.

"And you, Mr Klinsmann, are no Kobe Bryant" Right? Because one of them was an athletic prodigy who turned pro as a teenager, shattered scoring records all over the place, became his country's greatest player of his generation, set all scoring records for its greatest team, won a bunch of championships, twice leading…

Call me crazy, but I could see a situation in which Spain bombs out, losing to the Netherlands in the first game and then being unable to beat Chile in their second. Spain is just a bit older and a bit slower, and can be beaten by vicious counter-attackers, which happens to be precisely what Chile and the Netherlands…

What the fuck did "we" just read?

Can we stop saying that Donovan is the best American player of all time based on his USMNT stats? Its a poor argument. Club ball > International ball. End of story.

you mean as good as he once was, he was never great, never more than good.

So now he was a scrappy, complicated, unappreciated underdog?

Tied for the 546th longest HR of the season.

Sure, whatever you say.

LOL the McDougall "naked tour 2011" begs to differ. I actually bought a signed copy from the Brookline Booksmith (best bookstore in Boston, balla!) but if you look carefully, most of the others are at shoe stores. I think the book is okay for what it is. I thought the nutrition info was okay—"eat like a poor person,"…

"I'm really not saying, 'Go barefoot.' What I'm saying is, what is the evidence to back up this scientific claim that you need special shoes in order to do something that your species has been superb at for two million years?"

To me,. the bigger issue is this trend of junk anthropology, where people claim that we "didn't evolve to do X," which demonstrates a lack of understanding of evolution. You see this all the time with diet fads: we didn't evolve to eat grains, we didn't evolve to drink cow milk, we didn't evolve to eat meat, we didn't…