You’re right, of course.

I agree, but with the caveat that this should be the case so long as the athlete doesn’t get special treatment by the courts due to being rich and/or famous

It helps that the team hosts organized spelling and diction practice in the middle of games

I wonder if anybody actually sat some of these guys down and explained to them that they’re literally costing themselves money because they can’t shoot free throws. I know it doesn’t matter to Shaq who was getting the max deal he could, but roleplayers and journeymen would be able to add at least a couple points to…

While we’re having a meaningful conversation about free throw shooting, everybody’s favorite sports topic, why doesn’t DeAndre Jordan start shooting them underhand, Rick Barry style? I mean, look at every junkball hurler in baseball, at some point you exhaust everything you can do when one part of your game is so…

I hope this goes 35 innings, A-Rod pitches 5 scoreless for the win, and every player gets pneumonia

I hereby retract my previous complaint

The Boston Bombing story is a sports story as much as Harrison Ford crashing his plane on a golf course is a sports story.

Which should also be done away with. You’re missing the opportunity to mount a faux argument against my position by saying I want to do away with 5 second calls and backcourt violations. Think of the madness! Players just dribbling out the shot clock and passing the ball all over the court willy-nilly.

Maybe it's mentioned above and my reading comprehension just sucks, but did you have a variable for free kicks?

This isn’t really true outside of recent rule changes in college baseball. Football and hockey both generally see rules trickle up from the high school/juniors and college levels when it comes to safety measures.

Consider me a basketball libertarian. I don’t like a rule that makes it illegal to play certain defenses for any reason besides safety. It might not make sense to do it, but there’s no rule preventing the offense from keeping one guy under the other basket to cherry pick, so why are there rules preventing what a…

I get your reasoning, but I can’t stand defensive 3 seconds. if I want to pack 4 guys into the lane and dare you to shoot over me, you should have to do that, and I think that should go for the NBA too. The real problem with college basketball is that there are too many players who are bad at basketball. It’s like…

Man, that dub was some of the first anime I ever saw. Takes me back...

#blessed

As a former Syracuse non-athlete who wrote plenty of papers for friends at both that institution and several others, I think that the degrees many students have aren't always indicative of those students' personal educational efforts.

Don't worry Duke fans, NCAA precedent tells us that you'll just have to take down the Coach K statue. Everything else is all good. Nope, nothing else needs to be done, not at all

I can only assume they're practicing the standard procedure of reporting sexual abuse in the state of Pennsylvania because otherwise there's NO FUCKING WAY ANYBODY SHOULD'VE EXONERATED JOE PATERNO

Wait, you mean to tell me that by throwing everything they had to get a kid, including giving his high school coach a position with the college team, might lead to said kid clashing with veterans on the team? Look, I'm no highly paid head coach, but that seems like it might cause a rift

Ugh, I'm an alum and even I have to give you +1 overpriced liberal arts degree for that