Heath and Press are both better and we know they can play a full 90. It would be awesome to have both Rapinoe and Lloyd in reserve if we need a goal late. Much more concerned about Lavelle’s hamstring injury. She had some great sequences before she went down.

Barry mentioned cap hit. OP was just correctly pointing out that the first year salary would have no effect on the cap.

You have that reversed. In the NFL, only signing bonuses are spread out evenly over the length of the contract for cap purposes. The cap hit can change drastically every year however based on base salary and roster/workout/etc. bonuses. In the NHL, the total salary (including signing bonuses but less performance…

Yeah the only other way his Year-1 cap-hit comment could make sense is possibly meaning that since the Canes were going to offer much longer term they might have been expecting a lower AAV? Like instead of 5/$42MM they would have tried to do something like 8/$60MM. Only a $1MM difference in AAV but with the cap coming…

It looks like it hits the top of the shoulder, which is never a handball. And even if it was a bit lower on the shoulder, it would be considered in a natural position with the shoulder pinned to the body.

Agreed. This is good for the bad teams with cap space that would be candidates to take on bad contracts for draft compensation. I am a fan of such a team, so I’m all for this fuck-up.

Yes clearly a corner kick has a higher scoring likelihood than open play. But that is still most likely going to require an extremely high amount of attempts to yield a goal if the average team scores only once out of every 33 corner kicks. Can you imagine two teams going through even 15 rounds of corner kicks each…

The scoring rate off of corner kicks is only around 3%, so this is not a feasible plan at all.

You are making the argument that Kerr was interfering with the defender (which can definitely be a valid reason for an offside call when the offender does not touch the ball). Here are the possible scenarios for that ruling:

I will never get tired of hearing that sound. 

Was boarding a Southwest flight a few years ago with a small backpack and a carry-on bag. I had been making the same flight for work every other week for the past few months using the same bag and never had an issue, so you can imagine my surprise when a male flight attendant suddenly ripped the carry-on bag out of my…

Most restaurants do not have baked kibbeh on the menu - just the raw and fried balls. I didn’t even see it anywhere in Lebanon. It’s more of a home dish. And the people who frown on it might just not know someone who is good enough at making it. So I will definitely consider myself lucky in that regard (anddd also…

Right he’s supposed to be behind Winks and Dier but that doesn’t make him any less of a liability. Hopefully Dier has a good showing against Everton after that Bournemouth disaster or Winks can get healthy in time so one of them can replace Wanyama for the final. 

Wanyama has been painful to watch these last few games as well. He was right there fucking up with Trippier on the giveaway and then completely left Ziyech free running in to bang in the 2nd goal. Could not be happier that both should be on their way out this summer.

The writer is definitely missing out on the variety of kibbeh dishes if he thinks that the fried balls are the only form of kibbeh out there. Baked kibbeh (almost like a meatloaf) is a delicious and popular variation that is a Lebanese favorite, and the raw kibbeh you mentioned is great as an appetizer. They…

A lot of the stuff written/said about her has been horrific and racist/transphobic (I know she is not trans but she is being mischaracterized as such) so I think that has complicated the ability to add any nuance to the debate. I’m gutted for Caster as she has done nothing wrong and just wants to compete naturally.

Watching her run it really looks like she’s holding back even. Like she knows the scrutiny it would bring if she was blowing away the field by an even greater margin. If that is indeed the case it has to frustrating for her as an athlete to have to worry about “not winning by too much”.

Announcers always talk about guys who aren’t penalty killers that will lobby to be the one that serves a bench minor for this exact reason.

Tigers fan who lives in Lakeview. I’m 4 blocks away from Wrigley and still prefer going to games when the Tigers play the Sox over Cubs. It was a nice novelty the first couple times seeing them play at Wrigley, but the crazy ticket prices and shitty beer selection just make it not worth it.

Right. But why is that the case? It’s because during puberty, boys experience a surge in testosterone - much more than girls do - which causes them to grow and gain muscle mass at a higher rate than girls experience. Testosterone is not the be-all/end-all decider of athletic performance, and is certainly not the…