Evolutionary psychology is all about the study of how one can come up with a vaguely plausible sounding explanation of why conventional wisdom is true, and then pray whoever you're talking to has zero understanding of the actual history of mankind.

God, the pettiness and childishness to start a group like this and have slogans like the ones listed. Jesus what whiny pricks.

I'm just gonna leave this here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Sherrill

There's nothing "Better" about organic food besides its taste, which is rather important when you're talking about food. But people have built a quasi-religion out of their food choices, which is something the growing American under class can't actually afford to be concerned about.

In addition to what Jack points out, there's a pretty silly assumption at work here that Melky OBVIOUSLY just started doing PEDs when his stats went up. I would be shocked if he hasn't been on something all his career. You're telling me that a guy didn't think it was worth taking PEDs while playing in the biggest…

The thing is, Saban's defenses AREN'T that routine. He's been using hybrid players for years to combat the spread, and he's a great teacher. He's able to coach 22 year old corners and safeties to pattern read like the pros do, and that's why his teams are able to consistently load the box to stop the run while still…

As much as it pained me to re-read that frat-tastic nonsense, I did. "I realize this is a college program we're talking about, BUT THIS SHIT NEEDS TO DIE A PAINFUL DEATH AND NEVER COME BACK." You never once implied that the strategy was perhaps acceptable for a college program due to different circumstances. You were…

Well, maybe you were too busy finding new ways to sound like a poor man's Drew Magary, but the story was about a COLLEGE PROGRAM. You know, where field goal kicking is much more of an adventure than the relative safe bet that it is at the professional level, and where the punters aren't much better. Many programs…

I dunno about making such statements about Peppers' IQ. My freshman GPA was like .3 points higher than Peppers'. Freshman are just mostly fuckwits.

it very obviously is. As the CBS article points out, they likely meant to post the transcript without a name attached and just fucked it up.

If they can make a game half as good as the Sands Trilogy was, I'll love it. They fell on their face with the last two attempts (although the one was a movie tie-in, so it probably had no chance of being good).

Just ugh. I wonder if they would have been so quick to condemn that if Linda McMahon wasn't running for office in Connecticut. Her opponents have been killing her over wrestling's misogyny, violence and general awfulness broadcast ostensibly for a mostly child audience.

It's almost as if NBC just wants to push people into illegal streaming and torrenting.

I think you hit it by mentioning Mike Garrett. He basically thumbed his nose at the NCAA investigators and so they decided to punish the shit out of USC for it. I agree that's horseshit, but that's what works. UNC, as an example, has "acted" like they are so appalled, when it is becoming very obvious that UNC's entire…

Seriously great job.

There's a couple of things here: The leadership at Penn State directly involved in the cover up did so with the intention that their actions would preserve the University's reputation. If you don't punish the institution harshly for that decision, what message does that send to other spineless pencil pushers running…

Well, that's an overstatement. 6 of the top 20 schools in the US News report (I think that's by definition, elite) are Division 1A schools with athletic scholarships. There are a number of others in the top 20 that do not have athletic scholarships, but do have merit-based scholarships, like U. of Chicago.

Well you learn something every day. I assumed they did because they were Division 1-AA (FCS). An ass has been made of me.

If the no scholarship athlete thing ends up being a real punishment, I'd assume Penn State would voluntarily cancel their season (and thus absorb all the costs of buying out those games against their competition). I'm not sure what happened in SMU, but does anyone know if they had to pay the schools that suddenly had…

It's actually contrary to all Division 1 and Division 2 schools, including the Ivy League. The only schools that compete without athletic scholarships are Division 3 schools. It'd be like turning Penn State into Mount Union for a couple of years and then asking them to go play.