The infraction isn’t tampering with the balls, it’s ‘conduct unbecoming.’ Wording was chosen carefully to keep the issue within the commish’s authority.

Right, I suppose I’ve been assuming that Ted Wells was an arbitrator. So he was hired by the NFL to investigate this?

I feel like I need to capitalize this, as no one seems to be getting this point right:

But Ted Wells wasn’t under any obligation to meet a prosecutor’s standard of proof. The language ‘more probable than not’ was carefully chosen (he is a lawyer, after all) to reflect the burden of proof he was required to satisfy under the CBA and NFL rules.

Definitely agree on the point re: reliability of circumstantial evidence. Can’t stress that enough.

Does anyone have any specific info about why ESPN doesn’t talk about F1? Like, ever? I suspect something bad went down between the network and Bernie Ecclestone. What’s the real story?

Agreed. Probably their best.

Definitely want to see this. I’m actually not that surprised that Hallyday is great here, I loved him in L’homme du Train:

The idea of taking the most terrifying entities from the earlier films and making them our saviors instead is a good one, and a basic tenet of sequelology.

The only potential problem I see with changing the rules to allow goals like that is safety. If you have guys jumping up in the air, kicking at pucks, etc seems like more potential for a skate to the throat.

The point is that Cain’s ‘point’, or ‘opinion’, is actually something that can be, and in fact has been, disproved by scientific inquiry. Climate change is for real my friend, and it’s no longer a matter of opinion. Science/data says so.

Can’t stress this record enough, it’s fucking great. Not just for his performance, you can hear the crowd - especially the women - screaming for him. More than his other live records, which really are all great, this one seems to capture the event, the phenomenon, he was when he was at his best.

‘But, I tell you what we’re gonna do now.’

Live in Kinshasa, my favorite version of ‘Sweet Sixteen’:

If Tom Brady cares at all about his legacy I think he should do two things: admit he deflated the balls (because really, who gives a shit); and DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET THE GUYS WHO DEFLATED THE BALLS THEIR JOBS BACK. I don’t care about whether the Patriots’ punishment is too harsh, but these guys are getting…

If we are to believe Brady’s agent:

The point of this, to me, isn’t that the Pats/Brady gained any real advantage by having the balls deflated. It’s that they tried to.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night…

The Japanese trains are very much on time (I lived there for three years), but what comes with that is enormous, unreasonable, and occasionally deadly pressure on the people who work there to maintain schedules. See below, from an article about a fatal train crash in 2005:

You're forgetting Dr. Renee Richards, who underwent sex reassignment surgery in the 70s and was denied entrance to the 1976 US Open tennis tournament, where the USTA cited its 'women born women' policy. She really is a pioneer: