Brazil shouldnt be the gold standart for "soccer nation". The current go-to country would be Germany, but the lifetime achievement award belongs to the Netherlands.

they can appeal and they will. but the best thing I could imagine would be taking it down to a 1 game ban. They just dont overturn refs decisions.

I beg to differ. In the Euro League, which is pretty much midtable teams all around, spanish teams outperformed english teams by a large margin. Those are the only numbers we got and everything else is just guessing. The last top team who performed well in the CL was Chelski when they parked their bus to the title. On…

the good old BPL-dilemma. Is a league the "best in the world" because it has equally shitty teams who make it a thrilling competion or do you have a mediocre product because everybody knows you dont got the best teams in the world?

There is one question (that is the talent pool problem question for basketball overall): will he be tall enough? Given the genes of his father one might argue in his favor, but his mothers genes might just screw him over and hes growing up to be 1,76m (sorry Merica). Thats gonna do jack shit for him in the NBA,…

how dare you bring reason into this. Europe is like 100% racist and they should finally take some pages out of the book of the now racist-free US of A. Despite only a minority of clubs in Germany having anything close to some racist incidents, they all should meet with Roger Goddell to discuss how one should…

If you never heard of her, you probably never heard of any skater at all. She won Olympic gold medals, that should count for something.

of course not. I'm super smart and well-read.

compliments to Yahoo for their high journalistic standarts. "offending a brand partner" is a sentence that should earn you some swift punches to the face. Partnering with a credit loan company (thanks John Oliver) should earn you some kicks to your private parts. Being a freaking loan shark company boss like Gilbert…

best dunk since LaVine. His reaction and those of his teammates are priceless.

Always liked him. The Spurs did a preseason trip to Berlin this year and those promotion trips are always the worst for people who attend them because they want to see a good game for the (big) money they spend on the tickets, but the teams either dont care or do it like they are forced to. Not much different with the…

I agree on point 2 and 3, but the talent on the roster may not be enough to content with Bayern, but its not an explaination for place 18. And you might have to mention their terrible defending overall and specificly the number of slapstick goals they received at the most inopportune time. The old saying "if you dont…

once again, at that point Seattles defense wasnt that good anymore. How many players were sidelined through injury, how many were seriously banged up? All those lucky breaks for NE and they still needed a horrible blunder by the OC/Carroll/Wilson to win the game. As I said, better a lucky winner than an unworthy…

GB scored 22 points on them at home and they were even more banged up before this game and even more at halftime. they were the best defense in the NFL at the end of the season, not much left of that in the SB. And sorry but that SB will always be remembered as the one that the Seahawks choked away with one of the…

As a Pats fan myself I would want them to be punished hard if they did anything.

1. Tom Brady is as much of a golden boy as Rodgers is. Rodgers also told that he tries to push the boundaries, not that he ever gotten away with it. (Simms quoting btw!!!!)

everything the Patriots have ever done

After watching that interview, the only thought I had was: what is Gawker gonna bitch about this time? with Simmons and Dunham this interview was simply un-un-commentable by Gawker. the actual point(s) you are going with... you're kiddin right?

Thats a quote he would regret if he sees the way it has been spun. I dont think its a major shot at the league, but the MLS and Qatar have become synonyms for leagues were some good players go before they retire. Even if the league would have made any improvements, it would take a couple of years to get that message…

Another trick free kick that actually worked: