You completely missed the only good point you could have made about this rule change: teams that want to take advantage of this in the way that your Barca would have liked with Coutinho this year are now going to shell out even more.

Poor Barcelona, they’d have to do with Messi, Suarez, Busquets, Pique and Iniesta. Unlike Liverpool, their chances are intact without Coutinho.

He was born to be wild.

Academia is a strange beast. You can have a department with 50+ faculty members, everybody can know that Dr. X is a dirtbag, and not a damn one will say anything. It’s actually pretty common group dynamics—everyone thinks everyone else will do something—but I think academia exacerbates this. Many professors are more…

“This just goes to show that none of you learned the most basic lesson in medicine, medicine 101, that you should have learned in your first week: don’t trust your patients.”

Who are the people that hear this guy spew bullshit for 15 years and just nod their head and go about their day?

I like the guys trying to explain it to the ref. “He kicked him in the face, yes, but he’s not dead?”

Agreed, totally not intentional but the rules around a high boot are intended to prevent reckless plays - which this certainly was - and the red card was absolutely warranted.

FRIENDZONED.

The letter came before Young talked shit about him to SI. That’s how he was able to talk about the letter to SI, in the SI interview in which he talked shit about Fisher.

I owe you an apology, Chris Thomson.

The contortions people put themselves through to not just pay the players is hilarious

Tony Bennett handled losing to a 16-seed by listening to every question reporters threw at him, giving thoughtful, reasonable answers, crediting UMBC, crediting his own team’s excellent season and conference tournament, and never disrespecting any reporter like Hamilton did there, especially given that the question…

You can’t make the argument that Wichita State was the last mid-major to make the Final Four and discount Gonzaga due to athletic money and success.

This link groups Wichita and Gonzaga together — you know, the same Wichita you just admitted was a mid-major.

But doesn’t “mid major” refer to actual conference, not an individual school?

It’s almost like there are better funded mid-major teams than others!

Loyola has just become the most successful team in NCAA tournament history. Their all-time winning percentage is now .765; Duke is at .752.

When I was a kid it was Wacky Wall Crawlers...