On campus, it’s widely known that the basketball team goes out to eat at a local (read: small) joint with almost all of the players and coaches on a regular basis. If they want food from a place that’s too small (yes, like Chipotle), they order food to campus and eat there family style. It sounds silly the way he said…

Here’s the problem with Vegas:

If he says X, group Y screams at him and demands his firing. If he says Y, group X screams at him and demands his firing.

Frustrated, double-crosses off his evening’s only appointment.

In the NHL, teams cannot waive (prerequisite to a buyout) players who are injured. It very rarely results in some sticky procedural long-term IR situations like Marc Savard and Chris Pronger, but it prevents all kinds of “gentleman’s agreement” handshake deals like this one. I’m surprised that the NBA doesn’t have the…

Kids transfer schools all the time. He's a UFA but Carolina moved on for a reason: I doubt he goes back.

Most of these games are a nice thing for the old-time fans to go see on the cheap. This one is especially cool because so many of the players from the rivalry’s fiercest (only?) years are just outside of their playing days. When you’ve got Bruins-Habs and the best players from the 1970s are now 65+, it’s not as cool…

That pass, though.

Are Tony Romo’s hands really the best evidence that the defense has?

There’s a kernel of truth here, but in the context he’s using it’s completely wrong. It’s like he’s completely unfamiliar with the concept of simulation. Even the 76ers will beat the Warriors probably 2-3 out of 100 games: the idea of analytics is to give yourself a better chance of winning every game, not to win 82…

Not to sound ignorant of the franchise’s history and whatnot, but why do the only two options focus on the Brooklyn/Long Island area? If their options are rarely filling a small hockey arena in Brooklyn or rarely filling the smallest arena in the league (a renovated Coliseum) to operate in one of the nation’s most…

I see no difference between this hit and the Radko Gudas Special. It’s happening more and more, and the league needs to clarify the rules this offseason.

My three year old cat died of a clot-induced aneurysm less than 24 hours before my then-fiancée and I were scheduled to travel 6,000 miles to see her parents.

Are we really surprised that a man named Lonn Trost cannot understand the plight of the working man? His name sounds like a rejected Warby Parker model ID.

Of course it’s awful and inexcusable. But rowers compete in some pretty gross water on the regular. When the Head of the Charles was first held, the river had a Super Fund site along the route. Efforts to clean it started in the 60's but it still wasn’t swimmable until 2015.

“The Ontario League takes the health and well being of our players very seriously.”

When you restrict your team to only interviewing French-speaking coaches, this is what you get. Therrien takes underperforming teams, gets them to overperform, then watches as his teams completely collapse. This isn't about Price, it's about Therrien. No one else in the league would have gone near him if the Habs…

Sounds like the definition of attempted rape.

Barry didn’t do it in this post, but it’s an extension of thought: can we stop with the euphemisms for guys like Radko Gudas, James Neal, Cal Clutterbuck, and Chris Neil? Why do we define Torres, Cooke, Ott, Kaleta, Gillies, and Rinaldo as “dirty players” while reserving softer tones for guys who are only occasionally…

This term is so cliché, but Mayo was a true heart-and-soul player for the Patriots. He played (and acted) like a grisled veteran in just his second year. Immediate starter as a rookie, led the team in tackles in four of his five healthy years, and took charge of the swing shift from the Tedy Bruschi era to the…