The barf list approaches the question all wrong. At two years old, a kid has probably barfed more times in his life than he will for the rest of his time on earth. And nearly all of what came back was baby food.

Ivanovic and Cahill are Chelsea’s third- and fourth-best center-backs. Ivanovic just short-circuited out on the play. It doesn’t happen with Zouma or Terry back there. And that should be a clear sign of danger for Chelsea next year: Zouma is going to be coming off an ACL surgery and Terry won’t be there. Unless they…

That’s all true, but the perspective here should be that of a basketball league in Spain or Turkey rather than the NBA. The PL, La Liga, Bundesliga: they don’t give a damn about China. In fact, they absolutely love China because the Chinese are the only ones meeting their exorbitant transfer asks.

There’s enough good talent sitting on European benches for China and the MLS to coexist. But I do hope this makes the league get smarter about the players it buys. Players like Martins and Ramires are always going to play better than guys like Pirlo, Gerrard, or Lampard: the ones who have something to prove and whose…

Today I learned that TMZ employs that passive-aggressive baby boomer who overuses ellipses in all of his correspondence.

How did he miss that they conceded two goals to end up drawing against Sunderland?

Oh come on. Willian. Azpilicueta. Oscar. Now Miazga. He’s a former player/future manager so not quite the same, but if you don’t like Didier Drogba we’ve got a problem.

Men in Blazers mentioned the schedule ahead. Leicester are out of both cups and they’re not on the continent: they had like 15 games left this season while Man City had as many as 29 game left. It’s reasonable to say the lead might grow.

Unless you’re going to drop a story that proves his agent was enabling him, this seems like a pretty sanctimonious and accusatory take without anything to back it up. Anyone who has supported a friend or loved one dealing with addiction knows that the addict they’re supporting might ultimately tune them out despite…

I guess all you really need to know here is that Manning’s choice of PR representation is the same man who sold the American people on Saddam Hussein’s WMDs and then blew the cover off a CIA officer for political gain, only to fess up to that fact after he had been given immunity.

Agreed. I do wonder, though, what the unforeseen consequences of these moves will be for Ramires and Teixeira. Every league has them, some are more serious than others:

The KHL is at least somewhat legit, though. In hockey, most would agree that the best leagues in the world are, in order, the NHL, SEL, then the AHL/KHL (AHL has better defensemen and depth, KHL obviously has much brighter stars). The Chinese Super League probably wouldn’t crack the top 14 or 15 leagues in Europe,…

Note that the reflection reads “Messiah.”

What do you make of the hypothesis that the NHL handed out the “minimum” suspension because Wideman failed to follow the concussion protocol by trying to stay in the game?

It’s been floated by insider-y types for a long time, but I’m watching the Tom Brady to LA space. He has two more years on his deal with New England, he’s a big-name QB somewhere between his prime and twilight, and he’d be a California kid coming home. They’d have to trade for him because Bob Kraft and Bill Belichick…

Wow, did he really play in the NHL for ten years? I know there was a lockout year, but still. I guess there’s a lot of benefit to kicking around the league’s lower depths in perpetuity.

It’s not for us to know exactly how much more energy Yaya is exerting in games now than he was as a younger man. It’s entirely possible that the same effort is yielding diminishing results. But it is fair to say that the end result (work rate) is completely unacceptable. Meanwhile, to many outsiders it doesn’t appear…

I got accused of being a KKK member for suggesting yesterday that Yaya has been mailing it in for long stretches of games all season long.

Dude, you're using the race card where it doesn't belong. Yaya is getting called out by every corner of the footballing world for mailing in performances and generally being an asshole to (gasp!) a fellow African player. Take this crap somewhere else.

But Pep won the CL twice with two of the greatest football teams ever. Aside from those two years, the work Pellegrini did with Malaga and Villareal is arguably more impressive.