I most enjoyed the fact that we were both devastated by the white fanny pack. The pathos is beyond description.

Referees are not encouraged to carry guns.

Why does it have to be a joke or funny, or both? Is it not equally plausible that someone with a handle @fart was taking advantage of the modern thirst for commentary, albeit anti-intellectual, and using the platform to drive some other point?

What are you talking about? Redheaded dudes who wear Oliver People’s frames are the archetype of an athlete.

That kid's way too young to get the call.

Brown v. Bored of Education.

If the constant rumors about him returning to coaching are true, ESPN’s competing with the NFL.

How are you gonna score if you don't put it between the posts?

There certainly were worse pre-2012.

Contracts professor: Mr. King, do lawyers waffle?

I've been to Buffalo. Nobody there has even the vaguest idea of the concept of "strenuously" doing anything.

Apparently you didn’t grow up in northwest Montana. There can absolutely be too many Canadians.

Me too. Hello from Madrid!

As I said, I’m not in the U.S., so I am aware of what’s going on, but I’m not watching Fox or CNN or MSNBC at the gym, and don’t really know what the tone is of the mass media (I’m more of a Foreign Affairs, The Economist, and NPR podcast guy anyway -although I usually would watch just to see how the media is…

I understand your position. And I agree that the personal characteristics are nothing compared to the necessity of action; they’re not even of the same category of issues and I haven’t implied, and I hope you haven’t inferred, that I somehow think his personality (what seems to be genuine in my opinion, and not…

You would give a shit about corruption because it’s a problem. It might not be the highest on your list, but that’s like the people who think the DoJ ONLY goes after Fifa officials, decrying their lack of efforts in other areas. Except it’s not true in that case, and it’s not true in the case of the Catholic Church.…

I’m not Catholic, and I don’t even live in the US anymore, but I do read the press and I’m pretty dumbfounded that you think he hasn’t done anything substantive. The Vatican Bank was gutted because of corruption. He routinely tosses high-level priests because they shuffle their feet when he asks them to do something.…

After wasting a Saturday afternoon in the Bernabeu watching 31 shots on goal for a 0-0 draw, I wish Messi the best, but if he needs time to recoup, that’ll work as well.*

We used to play soccer against Dugway High School. I'm pretty sure they have a few extraterrestrials on their team. Weirdos all around.

Alta, Snowbird ... I didn't mind it for 10 years.