Lawyers usually play a more significant role in conviction or acquittal than they do in decisions to charge a suspect or not. This study focused on the latter. Further, there's no way you can measure whether someone has access to an expensive attorney, much less whether they retained them for a case.

To that end, Jason Whitlock will now be entirely focused on what he does best: creating distinctive and compelling content.

Jet Fuel Can’t Shoot Free Throws.

Looks like Lifetime finally got some self-awareness.

Anyone else not at all surprised that she’s a nurse?

The degree to which this team is screwing up the rest of the league’s finances can't be understated. The NHL has cash cows, a few pleasant surprises, teams that seem to barely break even, a few perennial loss leaders, and then the Coyotes. They're truly in a world by themselves.

So the culture of corruption is so thick at FIFA that no one knows what a clean election looks like. Fantastic.

That’s a good point. However, if safety is the most important thing and the bats are as strong as advertised, wouldn’t it be possible for a player to break in 5-6 bats in Spring Training to last him the whole year?

Readers may want to check some of the research out there on bamboo bats. The hype is that they shatter much less frequently than the bats in use today due to the fact that they’re built in multiple pieces.

+1. I have been in the second row on the third base line in Fenway. Your reaction time is pretty much nil.

Cause and effect for suicide is tricky, but so are cause and effect for depression. I feel like having a father whose idea of good parenting is public shaming of a 13 year old girl by cutting off her hair (what.) could at least be considered a potential contributing factor to depression.

The D&C Show has been handed suspensions for racism and sexism, so casual homophobia should be no surprise.

Which brings you back to 1970’s-era FIFA corruption.

Right but it’s soccer. It’s way outside of Bill’s old scope, which was “literally every single damn thing related to basketball and vague feelings about NFL players.”

Those names dominate the media cycle, for sure. But Asian, African, and South American reps dominate the numbers.

I thought about this too. How exactly does the incoming FIFA President change a culture of corruption this thick?

Bribeception.

Every new NBA logo looks like it’s made to be for an SBNation blog.

Coincidentally, Chelsea are also in Thailand right now.

It’s not hard to see why Hank was playing his cards close to the vest as he approached free agency. He still doesn’t seem to believe that his best chance to win the Cup is in New York.