Nice store, I wear some of their stuff, but the moment they went from a store or two in Midtown to multiple stores around the city to an outlet in the freakin' Trumbull Mall they immediately forfeited all their hipster points.

"I call bullshit on the idea that there was some kind of Golden Age of Olympics coverage on ABC or whatever."

I bought a '96 Miata the summer after I graduated from college in 1999. It had 54k miles on it then, and so I proceeded to drive the ever-lovin' shit out of it for the next....what year is it? Almost 15 years. It's been my semi-exclusive daily driver ever since, through cross-country drives to and from grad school…

Amazed that people weren't all tipped off by unimaginative crap like "Canadian bobsled team member Guy Lafleur."

Exactly what I was wondering. I tried putting goalie pads on once, and was like nahhh, too complicated, too much shit to deal with here. I can't imagine putting all that stuff on so that it's semi-functional (i.e. not having the pads swinging loosely round the back of your legs) while being shithoused.

And that's why I'm totally on-board with the NCAA's reasoning here. It's certainly not a level playing field if certain players take things that get them one, two, three, four, five! Senses working overtime.

Maybe he's playing a round with Rickie Fowler.
Maybe he's playing a round Rickie Fowler.

Definitely. It's just crazy how hard it is to predict these things.

Neither you, nor I, nor anyone else here has any idea about the second part of your statement. I daresay his doctors don't either at this stage. An immediate family member of mine suffered a very serious (near fatal) head injury in a fall - emergency surgery, induced coma for days, intubation, the whole thing. And…

Stay asi', elementary level knowledge of Spanish.

6 Santabros? Pssh. Try a hockey rink full of them. Santas throwing hands is a fine old New York tradition.

Hey, brother.

Hey, my job has allowed me to skip out for World Cup matches. Hell, for group-stage Champions League matches too, from time to time.

As an (often spandex-clad) cyclist, there's more than a little dickishness on display in this piece. That was apparent somewhere around the "Blow me, Lance Armstrong" burning bikes image - anyone who knows hardcore bicycle people, the kind of guys who follow the pro rider transfer market and are already handicapping…

I can't believe Pat Noonan was in that class, given how he quickly he broke down after a few good years with those Nicol teams.

Between 2003-2005 those Metro teams nursed Gaven, Rico Clark, Tim Howard, Brad Davis, Mike Finally Turning Into The Deadly Poacher We Always Wanted Magee, and of course Michael Bradley. Not all at the same time (Howard sold in 04, Clark traded before 05), but still, them plus, Guevara, Mathis, Djorkaeff....they were…

I believe there will be no charge on this two-four of beer, thank you.

I think you mean "that guy from Smashmouth."

I think you mean "that guy from Smashmouth."