That doesn’t make sense. You could argue that our soccer athletes aren’t reaching their full potential, but that’s completely different than our soccer programs being comprised of the best athletes. You need both, but even John Wooden couldn’t coach a D-2 team to a D-1 championship.

This is the first I’m hearing about Bitter American. What a travesty. It was easily their wide-release best beer and that space monkey might’ve been my favorite can design.

All people who use an apostrophe to pluralize a word or acronym deserve to be ranked zero.

My larger point is that other countries’ athletes primarily choose soccer first, whereas ours primarily do not, which makes the USMNT, unlike most soccer powers, not very representative of our country’s best athletes.

I think it’s more than a small factor. Of course good coaching makes teams better, but better athletes make them a hell of a lot better, and if the majority of them are choosing football and basketball over soccer, something that doesn’t happen nearly as often in Brazil or Argentina or Germany, then your talent pool…

Is Mempis an STD caused by premarital sex? Asking for a friend.

1. It’s not a sick perversion, it’s just gross.

Really? You really forgot about The Full Monty?

Edit: Skipped past the memo about it. And I get that it’s about other things, but still, 1) it’s easily the second-most popular male stripper movie, and has a whole lot of stripping scenes, and 2) the central plot is stripping, your argument is like saying Hardball isn’t…

Pedantic comment: Shouldn’t it be “Why not ensure* that if he gets down to the end of his bench...”?

I watched the video where a small woman threw a jab at a large man. The large man was largely unaffected by it, then reared back and clocked her instead of walking away and alerting bar security that a crazy lady just punched him in the drink line.

I’m hoping it’s unintentional, but your argument follows that women shouldn’t try to defend themselves unless they want to be beaten further, which is ludicrous. Dude was aggressively pushing her and then restrained her so she threw a jab to get a large man off of her.

What about the time he let Chris Kattan fart in his face in Corky Romano? Or the time he played Peter Berg in Entourage?

It’s his fault he didn’t luck into Wiggins last year or Russell this year?

Value - nothing = jackpot. Stauskas had no chance to develop and will space the floor for the bigs. Thompson and Landry will be solid backups to Okafor and Noel (and hopefully Embiid). Plus a first round pick. Plus the right to swap picks with what is surely to be a terrible kings team the next two years.

You’re preposterous. The Sixers have been laughable for what, two years? They’ll be a 30-win team next year and, potentially, keep getting better.

You’re wrong, too. There’s no right way, just making good moves and hoping that they work. Hinkie is making great moves for what he has to work with.

I think the point of view of Hinke is that they’ll go from being an extremely mediocre team to being young and terrible to being able to contend for a championship after several years. That’s why Brown got 5 years guaranteed and they take the best pick available while waiting in the shadows to raid cash-clearing teams…

See Oklahoma City/Seattle. Essentially had nothing, lucked into durant, stockpiled, got Westbrook, harden and ibaka (and not good Cole Aldrich) in the first round of subsequent drafts ; became a contender.

I agree that there need to be more pieces on why JJ Redick plays basketball with all that goop in his hair.

Do not try to sing “Bills, Bills, Bills.” You know the chorus, you may know even know all the lyrics by heart, but you will fail every time trying to nail that cadence.