Nieto picked the Kings to win.

Is there ANYTHING more anticlimactic than watching a team celebrate on the road?

On Paul F. Tompkins' "Laboring Under Delusions" album, he talks about going to a table read for the movie "Magnolia," and having Tom Cruise sit down next to him and go, "Hi! I'm Tom." Granted, this isn't the same thing as Tom Cruise meeting George Clooney, since Cruise clearly had no idea who Tompkins was, but I…

Nope, not in soccer. Check the FIFA rulebook (http://www.fifa.com/mm/document/fo…). There's even an illustration on page 34 that shows the ball like 95% over the line but still just touching it, and it's not a goal.

Actually I'm pretty sure that in soccer, a goal is given if the ball is deemed to have fully crossed the line in the air (albeit that's more than just "breaking the plane") even if it never touches the ground.

AKA the "Grandma at Thanksgiving" button?

You'd think that after more than a year where no one's guns have been taken, people like this would at least settle the hell down. But I guess that presupposes that they are reasonable or intelligent in any way.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: even if the Second Amendment means what these guys like to think it does - and it doesn't - the people who wrote it would shit themselves if they saw the kind of weapons available to any idiot today.

Never underestimate the willingness of teams to play spoiler. Of course there is the whole "Everton could be helping Liverpool to win the league" thing, but I have to think the fans care more about that than the players themselves.

City haven't won at Everton since 2009 - which doesn't sound like that long a time but it means four straight losses for a team that finished in the top three each of the last three years (and City were shut out in the fixture each of the last two years). As a City fan, I am terrified of having to go to Goodison in…

So when PEOPLE line up around the block for cronuts, your place is a hit, but when mice do the same it's an "infestation?" Nice double standard, NYC Health Department.

That's kind of a pointless argument since basketball has no BCS. The new Big East is probably a stronger basketball conference in historical terms but this year it was pretty much a tossup. And the AAC has two of the last three title winners. "Mid-major" is for conferences like the West Coast and Missouri Valley. …

I think Zimmern makes the best point. Yes, it's different enough from the majority of what we consider pizza that you could argue it's "not pizza" - but it fits the definition closely enough (sauce, cheese, and toppings on top of a crust) that you can't really say someone isn't allowed to call it pizza.

I've long been of the opinion that the red card is often too harsh a punishment. For instance, you get a red for two yellows, but you can get a yellow for pretty insignificant stuff depending on the day. It would be better if there were either some sort of shorthanded period a la hockey, or maybe if the player was…

It's Summer's Eve is a douche, not Summer's Steve is a douche.

And really I'd say there was a quite vocal reaction considering it's a road game and he's some bench player entering in the second quarter.

O AN HE UNLACED

This reminds me of that Facebook thing that was going around recently that was like "Now this guy would be fun to work with - he's hilarious!" and consisted of a bunch of complaints to HR about some wannabe Jim Halpert. Setting aside that there's basically no way all these complaints really happened, the "joker" just…

It certainly wasn't a show that NEEDED shipping; if anything, being set in an office, it was more realistic not to have much romantic interaction between its core cast. By comparison, the fact that nearly every potential coupling on Friends happened by the time the show had run its course was insanely implausible on…

To be fair, however, that relationship personified "on again, off again," so it's not like there wasn't a persistent source of tension.