I thought Deadspin was above this overrated/underrated Bleacher Report nonsense. what makes a beer "overrated" exactly? hasn't Blue Moon gotten enough backlash that no one would consider it overrated? everyone i know considers it a beer for non-beer drinkers: light and crisp and inoffensive and basically orange juice,…

yeah, out of all the examples olbermann could've based his argument around, I'm not sure why he went with haynesworth. The guy intentionally stomped on the head of an unhelmeted opponent, and i'm not sure why it makes it better because the rest of his body was covered in padding (which is what olbermann seems to be…

I know Bosnia isn't exactly France, but Nigeria did escape the group stage thanks to a gift offside call. You can say that Nigera is more "established" than Bosnia (whatever that means), but you're not going to tell me that Uruguay, which got the benefit of several calls against England and Italy, is more established…

it is still crazy to me that people find the handball to be, as Billy claims "cynical, unsporting, [and] exceedingly unfair." Cynical? I know that world means something slightly different when applied on the pitch, but Suarez's handball was the very opposite of "concerned only with one's own interests."

I watch plenty of soccer. Definitely would never say it doesn't have enough scoring. I mostly watch Serie A, which, of course, is known for its rampant simulation and also has plenty of fake injuries deep into stoppage time. I didn't say that the ref in the Muamba game assumed he was faking, but I'm just saying, what…

oh, only me and the most prominent soccer announcer in the us.

yeah, maybe more diligent timekeeping is all we need to do away with this problem once and for all. it would also help to get rid of the ridiculous rule that the team possessing the ball has to kick it out of play and then other team then gets to kick it all the way back to the keeper once play restarts. how hard is…

yeah, i understand that it is difficult, which is why i suggested a review process to determine this post-game. if a player goes down with a knee "injury" and then instantly pops up and is right back to full fitness as soon as he reaches the sideline, that's pretty clear, no?

This is only sort of related, but Pereira's injury also shows the danger of the widely-accepted practice of time-wasting. When this happened, Ian Darke accused Pereira of faking an injury to waste time, and given the game situation, it made sense. Muslera had already milked an "injury" to waste as much time as…

I mostly like it because I also root for Northwestern and can thus support multiple purple teams with the same shirt.

You shut your mouth!

yeah, why did we have to read all those stories about all those other openly gay college basketball players, anyway?

But the Pacers bench just isn't that good. It's not nearly as deep as the other contenders and they made a big mistake trading Green and Plumlee for Scola. You can't blame Vogel for trying to win enough games to get a high playoff seed, especially since they've been so good on their home floor for the past three years.

well the idea that each team is regional, so you have a local rooting interest. Like perhaps there would be a "West Coast" team that played in Vancouver, Seattle, Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, and San Diego.

Interesting article. I've always felt that women's soccer in the USA should be set up like a "tour": 8 regional teams each play two home games in six different cities for a 24 game season (across 48 total cities). top four make the playoffs, and the cities that drew the biggest crowds during the season host the…

I was joking about the people who say every basketball dunk is a charge. It wasn't funny enough.

Someone want to tell me why this wasn't an offensive foul?

he was in the restricted area, his feet weren't set, etc etc.

There are really three camps here. First are the people who say you should try to set your feet in front of the offensive player to try and draw a charge, though that rarely works on dunk attempts because the defender is often in the restricted area where charges are not called.

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