isnt it more a problem of specialisation rather than exhaustion? There is a fair amount of rest between the races.

striking similarities to FIFA if i remember the 2010 WC correctly, except the overall corruption is not needed because the NFL is a system were everbody is already at the place only bribes would get you to in the normal world.

well you cooked up a nice pile of bullshit here. First of all: i wasnt commenting on the article or the topic, i was commenting on a comment claiming "Jürgen is the best player of his generation.", which is not true. Even the totally unbiased demo of "recent german immigrants to America [the USA]" would agree with me.

as a german i can assure you: Klinsmann is not the greatest player of his generation. That would be Lothar Matthaeus.

The day will come when one of these ESPN talking head caricatures will lisp the words "he didnt want it enough, he is a choker" refering to a soccer player. the good part: they dont need new people to do that, the ones they have are talking about football, BB and baseball for hours knowing very little.

Im the last guy who wouldnt pay half of his monthly earnings for a pair of overpriced and butt ugly basketball shoes, but you have to hook me with a well oiled marketing machine, Olivia Pope style! You got caugt with some autism big slip like The Decision, you lost me. Would need some "running in a burning house to…

Well there is a new vogue thing to chose for your shortcomings. You could have been a right-winger blaming a poor imigrant, a left-winger blaming some jewish conspiracy and now you can be "THAT", blaming women on not wanting to be with you. Which of course amounts to 100% of your well being.

That Klinsmann-Donovan story is still a riddle to me. When Klinsmann was coaching Bayern he more or less dragged Donovan to the club. Nobody really understood that transfer, mainly because Donovan was nowhere near a Bayern-caliber player. Everybody just booked it in the "homesick files" (like vanGaal got Robben,…

he is my favorite commentator, but i really dont dislike many of the major (basketball) ones. But his sidekick and his constant "listen" and "you gotta" is getting close to Barkleys "to be honest with you..."

QUITE business people, as in "not talking to the press every day". You never hear from them, you wont on this topic.

They would like to, but they will never be able. Silver isnt a mediator, he is a muppet of all owners. Most interesting thing to see will be all the other owners. Are they letting this slide because one day they could be the ones in trouble and wouldnt wanna have the hounds after them. The majority of NBA owners are…

Well you can always fire a coach, thats a totally diferent story. Klopp just renewed his contract at Dortmund to 2018. He seems to like it there and they will not let him go. Lewandowski wanted to leave, they kept him despite not being able to cash in on him as he is free to go after this season. Cost them up to…

Klopp just renewed his contract in Dortmund. He is not going anywhere. Fancy name to throw around.

How long ago did we pass the mark where it got to unhealthy hype? I'm a Bayern fan first, it would be great if he succeeds, great for Bayern. But he is playing on the AMATEUR team, he has done NOTHING yet. (Guardiola is not the coach of that team btw.)

Guardiaola after the game: no blaming or name calling of Rooney. Just mentioned that he wasnt happy with the Refs decision.

One thing was painfully obvious: english teams have missed out on the evolution of defensive structures in football. The way you attack certain passing routines is important, as it leaves you not as vulnerable to tiki-taka style football. City earlier and Arsenal today defended one opposing player at a time and were…

If you're 4. in figure skating you may complain about a rather unfortunate judging. But that shit is a timed competition. Thats like a 100m runner complaining that the guy who finished 3rd may have beaten him, but had a really bad finish. Even the interviewer was jumping to her side with that "Nikitina knew the track…

They also need a proven center back, like one of either Neven Subotic or Mats Hummels from Borussia Dortmund, who presumably can always be coaxed into selling.

sources, sources, sources. That whole article reads like on of those ESPN "Dwight is definitely staying in LA" reports. Adding the jabs that deadspin takes at Simmons annoyingly frequent, i dont really know what to think of this. Not a Simmons homer, but i seriously doubt that that was the way things were going down.

I would really like to see what the show would look like if they force them on somebody who really doesnt wanna do it, for example the Pats or the Packers. You cant force someone the be open and outgoing. It would be miserable and could effect a teams success.