I'm not necessarily the world's most enthusiastic fan of The Smiths, but that album produced this, definitely in my list of top five or ten music videos. Five or ten? Hm. Top ten, I'd say.

"So, pending appeal, this is your final Biogenesis body count: Alex Rodriguez, 214 games; Ryan Braun, 65 games; everyone else, 50 games."

Exactly. The main problem with college football is in the classrooms, not the players' bank accounts.

University football teams make about as much sense as a university rock bands or university movie studios. For colleges to be the main players in a billion-dollar entertainment industry, with the talent posing as "students", is just weird. In no other country are universities involved in big time sports—or any other…

It's not that obvious: http://www.footballperspective.com/joe-namath-has…

Braun and Alex Rodriguez, too. A-Rod's family is Dominican, but he's fully American—he played quarterback in high school, that's how American he is.

"As an independent filmmaker...."

You may be right, we'll see. But I don't think he's coming back. The Eagles are the only chance he has—no other team is going to pick up a pretty decent back-up receiver with all that baggage; the risk/reward calculation doesn't add up. So if the Eagles don't think their locker room can handle his presence, I believe…

Really? People pay for sex with dogs?

"I think what I found most sad about it is how little an impact it's going to make for Ellis, Lohan and Schrader, both once-skilled artists who are now long gone, industry jokes."

Really? That's very interesting. I don't mean to challenge you, so don't take this wrong, but where did you hear this? Is this an NFL rule, that only Riddell helmets can display the company name? You just piqued my curiosity.

So what if it is a monopoly? It's not against the law to dominate your industry. It's against the law to engage in practices that suppress competition, such as buying competitors out before they can get started, or what have you. That's why there are legal cases that prevent mergers because of the likelihood of a…

"To avoid getting fat, don't eat sweets" is not the same as "Don't eat sweets." The sticker doesn't say don't play football, it says, if you're not up to the risks, don't play football.

What happened was, by following the protocols that Brave Royal cites (basically: "keep the samples in your custody rather than leaving them unattended at a FedEx closed for the weekend") , he violated another requirement ("don't keep the samples in your custody longer than 48 hours"). By collecting when he did, right…

"...that's much less scandal and much more conversation with the last person left in the world to have seen the ending of The Sixth Sense..."

Part of me thinks that Neil Young was always trying to write a tune as good as this one that his buddy wrote. Dig the first few photos in the vid—yes, that is a young up-and-coming Danny Whitten, who grew up to be the dead junkie bandmate that Tonight's The Night was partly dedicated to. Great tune this is, but one of…

For the off-the-beaten-track tune that hits closest to home, I'd go with this one. It's a lot like the one you chose, with that insistently slow tempo.

That's an idiosyncratic choice. Which is a compliment, but still, I can't even say that's my favorite song on that album.

It's not a recipe. It's a musing upon a food. It's what the dude does, so if you're asking for a trim little recipe, you're saying, "Do something that you don't do and aren't interested in doing." Humor, especially written humor, is a matter of taste. If you tire of Burneko's humor, you can at least trust that others…

Josh Smith is relieved—some teams he's been rumored to be going to, he might have had to play in a game that mattered.