As a Yankee fan, I certainly think Konerko deserves more attention with his retirement. Also worthy of note, with he and Jeter leaving baseball, MLB has just one remaining captain.

Agreed. And what are they thinking with vinyl? I'm a grown man who can barely open a bag of Cheetos, and I'm pretty sure a Cheetos bag has about 1/80th the tensile strength of vinyl. This was destined for failure the minute mom left Kinkos.

"Fright," "Congenital heart defect due to inbreeding," "Potato," "Po-tah-to."

I understand why people would feel like they couldn't talk about this. If we're being honest about feelings here, I honestly felt no sympathy for the women above. To be honest, I saved all my sympathy for their children.

The NFL as a whole is going to reverse the Earth Superman-style if they keep up this record amount of backpedaling.

Second, sprint cars require the use of the accelerator to make them properly turn. They can not turn on a dime like other types of race cars can. To make the car turn left, the driver must turn the wheel to the left and press the accelerator. This makes the back end of the car slide to the right and helping to push…

Looks like the DA is erring on the side of caution. Flag. Caution Flag. Tony Stewart killed a guy.

Yeah, exactly. I've mentioned a few times in the last couple days my dad used to use his belt as a discipline tool, but what I haven't mentioned yet is a talk we had that I still remember very vividly when I was like 6 or something.

it's not just your opinion. Countless studies have proven spanking/hitting/striking children to be at best a fools errand and at worst a total fucking disaster.

Agreed. It drives me crazy how sports issues are always instantly reframed into political issues with the usual liberal/conservative split. One of the glimmers of silver lining in the Rice thing is that, to a pretty large extent, that didn't happen. The anger with Rice and Goodell came from across the spectrum. But…

I have mentioned in a previous post that my mom raised 4 kids by herself. She took her frustrations and anger out on us, she beat the hell out of us with anything and everything within reach ( switch, extension cords, vacuum cleaner extension, pots, etc.)I love my mom, she did the best she could but she was wrong. It…

Look Shakes, I'm going to ask you this in all seriousness. When did your parents stop beating you? I'm guessing you're going to say when you were old enough to understand what they were saying. But whose fault is that when you are 3, 4, 5 years old and you cannot understand why your behavior is wrong (you're just…

Was waiting for this reply and many like it. Glad you saw the value of your beatings and hope your kids enjoy them as much as you did.

You are perpetuating the cycle of violence by justifying Peterson's actions with your own biased, anecdotal evidence. You cannot possibly connect your scholarship to Duke with the fact you were beaten as a child. Your education should have told you that...

The victims of abuse are usually the first ones to defend it, just as you have. I'm sorry you were forced to do hard labor as a child, and also beaten as a child. Even tho you are not.

It's like that old saying: If you can't stand the heat, then you're probably not a pizza because they're typically cooked at very high temperatures.

I'm a Bills fan who watched this for the first time ever on the Bears feed yesterday. This commercial, coupled with your incumbent governor (who, by virtue of being governor of Illinois, is probably a crook anyway) talking about his record while mowing his lawn with an old school manual mower made me feel so sorry for…

I don't know these people at all. I'm sure they're good people. They did a bad thing. Their tailgating power is destroyed. That's a big thing.