Larry is a living, breathing, not-too-long-for-this-mortal-coil art installation. And Howard Stern is right - frogs don’t wear short-sleeve shirts.

They’d have to do it something along the lines of arena football, flag football or “sevens” — E.g. the new rugby medal at the Olympics isn’t a real 15-on-15 rugby “test match” (contested one-per-week), they will instead contest a novelty version of the sport called “sevens” and play ten-minute halves and have a full…

The “magic passport,” on the other hand...

Correction: 31 lengths *with* Ron Turcotte in the saddle.

31 lengths.

The difference wasn’t as pronounced as I would have imagined. I would have expected Secretariat to thrash him. Race-times are not always great measuring sticks. Track conditions, temperature, humidity, match race tactics...all factors. Superhorses like Secretariat, Phar Lap, Man O War have abnormally enlarged hearts,…

Why do they even have separate womens *and* mens divisions in curling? It’s like having separate divisions for chess, darts and computer games. Any sport you can play competitively with a beer in your “other” hand should be Open, and curling (a.k.a. “Eskimo Bowling”) is totally Beer league. Let the chicks beat the men…

Rugby Union: Bring back RUCKING.

Fwiw, the tournament is called the WORLD Cup and the Pacific Ocean comprises roughly 1/3rd of the surface of that “world” — probably bigger than all of the planet’s land mass combined — so, yeah, good on ‘em for qualifying!

Just wait ‘til they pack down a scrum...

Greatest sport played in the nation that excels at it better than any other.

I agree w/ Tim... For the love of God, get women refs outta the men’s game!

Heh-heh, very nice. Kinda reminds me of this one, in which Brian O’Driscoll plays the role of Ric Flair.

She wears a Phillies shirt because she’s a fan. He wears a Phillies jersey because he believes he’s on the team, patrolling the outfield. He believes this because he’s a prick.

Where’s Burke with the gif?

But, does it look & feel as real as this?

Al Iafrate was a-mazing on the end-to-end rush, but sadly no youtube clips to prove it. I have some quarter-century old video highlights of the Freight-Train, I’ll have dig them out, convert to digital and upload myself. Seriously, he didn’t always play great D, but man could he move it from goal to goal.

It would be fun to see pics of their girlfriends. (They have girlfriends, right? Okay, maybe not.)

For that kind of money ($3.4-million salary) he should have been shit-canned years ago, and alongside him the executive who agreed to the contract. “The value of Simmons’s name” must be low, b/c nobody I know gives a shit what he has to say. If they paid him any attention, it was their patience waiting for Jalen to…

Grantland need an EIC who remembers it’s a SPORTS site and not TV Guide General Interest Celebrity Watch TMZ-lite; and they need to cover sports in a way that is less than 50% soccer, and fewer gratuitous shots of athletes getting smacked in the balls or the titties (click-bait, sure, but...) and/or shots of fans…