He may have been a great friend — and is probably a terrific guy. But what he isn’t is a professional editor, to say nothing of being a responsible, level-headed, mature adult with sensitivity for other humans, plus a conscience. But hey, at the end of the day, he still has his principles, right?

Hmmm, whaddabout the ginormous lethal Haast’s Eagle?

Here’s one I uploaded for you, Barry. Gary Bettman serves one up and the Magnificent One swats him down. NHL lockout resolution, February 7, 2006. (Would love to see the video where Mario is holding up his index finger. It was priceless.)

God bless him, I think HHH is the best advocate for women in wrestling there has ever been...

What else are you going to do in Lucan?

Aaaaand the sports part of the story comes in, where, exactly...?

I once got trapped on a Grateful Dead roadtrip. It was fun, sure, to a point, but I’d be lying if I said the ritualism didn’t look and feel a whole lot like a cult, and I was more than a bit of an interloper — maybe even what some Deadheads might consider a “PTS/SP.” Bill Walton and Al Franken are to the Dead what…

I gotta come to Steve Simmons defense. He’s not a complete douche-bag. Just 90% of the time, he is.

“England Lose World Cup Semifinal In Most Heartbreaking Fashion Possible”

The white Jordan sandals were a nice touch. Sad, sad man.

Bill Haisley is Deadspin’s soccer correspondent. Has he seen EVEWRY goal EVER scored? Unlikely. But has he witnessed more than — say — my example above — 100 matches at 90 minutes apiece for a minimum of 150 hours of the sport viewed with his own eye balls? I would hazard to say yes, he has. And if he hasn’t, then…

Long-winded whinge. Noted.

Over-sold like a shill, big-time.

Overhyped and underimpressed.

More womens rugby coverage, please. Those sheilas are hot. I mean, tough. Both.

Bunch o’ overpaid princesses. True, the greens sucked, but everybody played on them. So, even-stevens, and let’s face it - a pretty good golfer won, so a fluke it wasn’t. Football teams compete in rain but GAME ON they’re all in it together and we don’t want to hear post-match whinging from the losers about how life…

A tip o’ the olde riding crop to jockey Frankie Dettori, too. (Funny how F1 drivers get credit when the SAME bloody car gets pole positions every race, but same scribes ‘n editors rarely-if-EVER extend credit to a jockey for having the smarts & skills getting a temperamental racehorse over the finish line to victory.

Oh, it’s gotta be the North Koreans, right? Right??

Ball volleyed off his back fairly hard, but I get what you’re suggesting, that soccer is a bit of sissies sport, and that part is hard to debate.

That was an excellent piece Greg, but sadly omitted any mention of Shamrock’s most VITAL fight ever — that would be his appearance as SPECIAL REFEREE for the mythic Wrestlemania XIII, Bret Hart vs. Steve Austin, the infamous Hitman-Stone Cold “double-turn.” There was Ken Shamrock, his nose inches away from the…