ALSO FOLK: Jen Kirkman has two albums available on iTunes - Self Help and Hail to the Freaks. Hail to the Freaks is the gosh darn best stand up album I've ever heard, and I've got a stack of comedy albums* fourteen feet tall so I guess that makes me an expert. DO yourself a favor.

Oh come on. Like people needed a guide to hating Notre Dame.

In the era of 12 team conferences, winning your division (and by extension, your conference) means nothing. It usually means you just got lucky on your conference schedule. There are six teams in the SEC with 10 wins. The other 8 teams in that conference would struggle to win the Conference USA. Alabama played 2/5…

I don't mean this to sound prickly, but Belfast is Northern Ireland, aka Protestant Ireland. It's also the part that's still part of the United Kingdom.

Re: Trump and Apprentice, Jesus NBC. How far do the ratings on that disaster have to fall before you just let it go?

I think the most pervasive bullshit you find out there is the idea that SOMETHING HAS CHANGED RECENTLY or that concussion related problems are somehow a new thing. I see so many people discuss the safety problems in football with arguments that seem to revolve around making the game look more like the football of the…

As Jason Kirk over at SBNation said, you cannot think of this accusation as anything except THE FIRST TIME Mike Leach has ever been accused of abuse....since Adam James admitted under oath he fabricated the first accusation. There was no abuse of Adam James. It doesn't matter how many times ESPN said it, when it came…

Man I don't see how those rules will hold up under a court challenge. They're clearly being applied to existing clinics with the sole purpose of forcing them to close. It's just a (patently obvious) backdoor way of making abortion illegal.

I mean it's possible he's just reached his end. It happens to lots of great coaches. Everyone gets old and everything changes eventually. So I'm not arguing Mack Brown should be given a free pass forever based on his excellent body of work.

If your system is so complicated it can't have built in audibles, it's probably too complicated to succeed without the perfect personnel, which is rarely found.

He did it at UNC.

Now THAT'S hilarious. Her SAT (and I'm assuming her essay was a real pile of shit, I think that's a safe assumption) was SO terrible, that she couldn't even get in as a legacy.

If she really wants someone to be mad at, she should get mad at every legacy kid who gets into Texas and other major universities for no other reason than "Mommy and Daddy and grandpappy" and all down the line went there. If you removed every legacy kid who got into a good school despite not having the qualifications,…

Texans are just more laid back in general at sporting events. Go to a Longhorn or Aggie home game and then compare that experience to being at a LSU or Alabama game. They're just not as animated.

It's always a sign you hired a good coach when he's picking fights with 19 year olds.

This is classic false equivalence that moderate liberals have been squealing for years while also BEMOANING the lack of civility in American politics. Yeah guys (and it's almost always guys, I never hear a female commentator acting like BIRTH CONTROL being available is some unimportant cause that liberals should back…

EVEN MORE ABSURDITY ABOUNDS.

Yes, because of the long and storied tradition of divisions that have existed for about 20 years.

The whole divisional format is ridiculous anyway. There are 162 games. There is plenty of time for every team to play a balanced league schedule and give each team in the AL and NL an equal number of games against all their inter-league foes. MLB should just take the top 6 records, regardless of their goddamned…

That only works when you have a punter capable of doing that. The problem many people who analyze college football have with coaching strategy is that many coaches at the FBS level seem to operate under the delusion that they work in the NFL. Hence the punts from inside the 45 that invariably end up as touchbacks and…