I'm an MLS season ticket holder and I would definitely not call the MLS a "perfectly good soccer league". It's pretty fun, but I still spend more time watching the Premier League because, well, duh...

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Yes, cited sources and actual facts (like the Mitchell thing) count as research.

Reminder:

Just hoping he isn't credited with half a sack.

MOP BOY: I'm traveling as fast as I can!!

I understand you want to improve your game, Iman, but you can't just walk into a barber shop and order your fade away.

I came here to talk Knicks, but it was already neatly summed up in this thread. I'll just add last year's pundits picks to win the Atlantic Division:

I know it's Juve so there's every reason to suspect a dive, but this may have been one of those that the camera just couldn't capture. It seems Illaramendi (24) may have just clipped Vidal's studs. This is backed by the fact that Illaramendi also fell to the ground. Still an exaggerated fall on Vidal's part though.

Not entirely:

Fan in Chrebet Jersey: [punches woman]
Wayne Chrebet: [Gets placed on IR]

Part of what's damaging about all this is that it perpetuates the notion that the danger in football comes from big, noticeable hits. What most of the research has found, in fact, is that it's the repetition of countless routine plays that involve some level of collision. Every time O- and D-lineman bang into each…

"Not so fast!"

That's nothing

That's exactly the problem with Chicago-style pizza, Al. Since you were holding a knife and fork, you weren't able to remove the extremely sharp object that must be lodged in your brain.

New Jersey is salt-water taffy?

I would disagree. I'd say pork roll, egg, and cheese on a bagel is our dish if we aren't allowed to claim pizza.

Here's how Mexican television announcers reacted, as Mexico's loss to Costa Rica was rendered meaningless: with screams, and scattered English phrases.

On the Mark Harmon Trapezoid of Surprise Theory, this ranks somewhere between a level 3 2008 Patriots Super Bowl loss and a level 4 Leonardo…

Peyton Manning: [skips daughter's ballet recital to study rock-paper-scissors tendencies of Broncos' backfield]