To say that’s a stretch is charitable. Yaya Touré hasn’t exactly done himself any favors with his propensity to point fingers at everyone but himself or his completely unacceptable work rate. And if you’re suggesting that one of the biggest clubs in England is building around a core philosophy of racism, I'm not sure…

It’s not just “awkward,” it’s downright bizarre. City are strongly in contention for the Premier League, the Champions League, the FA Cup, and the League Cup. Pellegrini has done nothing but build one of the two/three best sides in England, and yet they’ve already decided not just to move on but who to replace him…

Two different games. Pacific defeated Central first, then beat Atlantic. I think Pacific and Atlantic both started as white jerseys, so Pacific switched to black.

Side note: Nashville appeared to have crushed the host city role. The fans never felt closer to the All-Star Game than they did this year.

Pappa was arrested last year for driving 84 mph near downtown Seattle and for blowing a .174 at 8:30 in the morning with open alcohol containers in the car. He’s living in a faster lane than I thought existed in the Pacific Northwest.

I think the NHL meant, “Are your kids going to be proud that you died of a heart attack trying to play 3-on-3 against the likes of Steven Stamkos and Patrick Kane?”

He totally said “Fuzzy Zoeller” at one point.

The first half is accurate, but he saw him all the way and hit the linesman on purpose. That said, aggression is sometimes an immediate symptom of a concussion. That’s what it looked like happened here.

Per Sportrac.com, he made $802,610 in his career (assuming 25% of his second-year salary was lost due to suspension). For sacrificing his health, his potential at finding happiness in life, and a lifetime of fulfillment, football gave him and his family $802,610 before taxes.

It's impossible to defend the guy when they brought in a third tackle who proceeded to touch exactly no one and let Brady get dropped at the 2. That's bad coaching.

Aside from a single, not-so-inflammatory tweet from Gronkowski, the Patriots haven’t engaged in anything resembling trash talk. I’m not sure where this notion that this is a back-and forth thing comes from: it’s only coming from the Broncos.

Hey, his nuts match his eye now!

I understand redacting when it comes to national security and things like patient privacy, but what could possibly be the rationalization that the government gives here? Serious question.

Ctrl and Ctrl+Shift will get you to some pretty quick and easy features, but Alt codes will open up just about everything you will ever want to do in Excel. Try highlighting an unformatted table, hitting Alt+A+T, Alt+H+B+A, Alt+H+B+T, Alt+H+A+C. It sounds like a lot, but it’s not: muscle memory makes it much more…

If you’re Green Bay, how do you decide to just not cover Larry Effing Fitzgerald? He had a whole half of the field wide open.

Counterpoint: the Costa malarkey is now a huge problem for Chelsea. He got hauled down hard in the box today and the ref didn’t even think about giving a penalty. It has become nearly impossible for Chelsea to win a penalty at this point due to all the backlash.

Using the same logic, I'm gonna casually suggest that Cris Carter murdered two people and burned his suit to hide the evidence because he works with Ray Lewis.

Not at all staged.

Flashbacks to the far too many days plying my Football Manager trade in the bowels of English league soccer.

Hockey is similar, there’s just more emphasis on acceleration in the passing game than in soccer or basketball. But the fundamentals still hold. You can really see it in breakouts or in power plays. Some of the most exciting plays happen when a crafty player creates a new triangle to catch the D off-guard with one…