I love how most of the responses you got lacked the context you mentioned. It's almost like you knew you could find 8 or 9 people incapable of reading parentheticals. Joe Gibbs... Hall of Fame coach with Washington FC. How'd he do when he returned to the exact same team (exact team with a different owner and GM)? …

Had you heard of Blatt eight months ago? If not, how do you feel comfortable assessing the intellect of someone you've almost certainly never met? Asking for a friend.

I see your point re: collision v. contact and I certainly think the difference would be more significant for football than for basketball, but I don't think the gap is as large as you do. I think you're underestimating the physicality of most NBA games. There are college teams where the biggest defender you'd be…

"When Jordan was 30, I bet he had played just as many minutes of basketball in his life as Lebron, it was just for UNC and summer leagues instead of all in the NBA."

Surely you would acknowledge that playing more minutes against bigger, faster, stronger players with a higher level of organization and coherence would…

The solution you offer here is also pretty inflammatory. Rather than potentially mis-identifying an individual or an organization, you're comfortable just broadly indicating that it was a male member of a greek organization and leaving it at that? Why is that reasonable to you? I mean look, the website you're…

Solidarity is important and public expressions of it are particularly timely whether one has a large podium or a small one. That said, this video has over 3 million views and a third of them are from me, every time a celebrity is criticized for not being vocal about pressing social issues:

If his Christian beliefs are so obviously a breaking ball that didn't break, served right down the middle, why did he need to express them on Twitter? This isn't a "stick to sports thing" either, as I'm fine with whomever saying whatever wherever. I'm just struggling to picture Curt Schilling being the most astute…

Do you know what "confirmation bias" is?

Setting that aside, regardless of how true or false your statement is, it's completely irrelevant. There are 7 billion people on this planet. Assuming you have 100 friends, and further assuming that all 100 of those friends follow international soccer, PERSONALLY have an…

Do you have some metrics to back up this assertion? By your own insistence, you hate the man. Now you're claiming that one of the most popular players on an admittedly really popular team isn't as popular as the media would have us believe. But I haven't seen any evidence that the media is attempting to convince us…

Not that you're going to respond, but... what's your point? Popularity isn't fame. Fame isn't popularity. Lionel Messi is undoubtedly both popular and famous. Just because you "hate" him doesn't change either factor.

I'd bet $100 that you've pumped your fist near a copier at some point in your life...

The QB who played them into the 7 also played them into the 5, right?

Is your office closing early? I suggest harnessing that... energy... BEFORE you get home! Have him grab a drink near your office. Work a little late and see if you can gauge whether or not any brown-nosing busy bodies are gonna stay past the office closing. Hopefully they will leave at a reasonable hour and you…

Don't dance; go shag that man... con mucho gusto! It's all about the positive reinforcement! Every time I see my lady friend wearing one of my teams' t-shirts, I nibble on her neck a little bit!

"I suspect that if you could get a couple of drinks into Mike and Kyle Shanahan, and Jay Gruden, they'd all tell you they tried talking to Griffin, telling him to listen more, talk less, work harder, and learn all aspects of the position. He had Snyder in his pocket, so he never had to listen to his coaches. So, the…

Thank you for this! Not to get political, but your closing point is exactly what I think of when people complain about "The Nanny State" forcing businesses to disclose the calorie count of their menu items. If you put people in an informed position and they don't make informed decisions, that's on them. But at…

It was a pretty stupid question... He got away with a quiet, condescending answer. It was smirk-worthy!

Are you sure you're responding to the right person? If so, you left the matches right next to the strawman... I'm not sure what Nickelback's awards for music (based upon subjective evaluations) have to do with RG3's award for an objective evaluation of his performance, but when Nickelback can release an album that's…

I did a google search for "Mark Sanchez rookie" and I didn't find any articles about him winning rookie of the year. I did, however, run across a bunch of articles where Pete Carroll was roundly criticized for rightly pointing out that he'd advised Mark Sanchez to stay at USC for another year because he wasn't ready…

There's also a school of thought that says that if you have strong leadership, you sit your QB, who isn't yet old enough to rent a car on his own, you don't just give him carte blanche to be QB and offensive coordinator and his own position coach. If those reports are true, someone should've sat him down and said…