Not OP and jumping in late here...but sadly, I do think someone very prominent is going to have to die for a serious change to happen quickly. It’s happening slowly with youth participation but that’ll change over generations/decades, not years.

The problem there is that the infighting would reach legendary proportions in parts of the world over which sites get to make the rotation. Paris and Rome and Munich aren’t going to accept London becoming a permanent host easily, same with Tokyo and Pyongchang for Beijing. One ring is for “The Americas”, which means…

Before Bayless was on ESPN, he worked for (among others) the San Jose Mercury News, and even as a young kid, I remember reading his stuff and thinking that he was an idiot.

It’s telling that Skip is such a blowhard I actually clicked the link to check if that was an actual tweet of his or not...

Oh, the one for Final Fantasy XV is just Florence. Arcade Fire and The Decemberists are on a Hunger Games soundtrack that was just a comparison point.

It’s appropriate that the first two words of his quote are, “They’re high.”

I mentioned this in one other comment, you nailed hurdles and racewalking but you’re forgetting what’s easily track’s most ridiculous event, the steeplechase:

I mean, have you watched the steeplechase? Or, to a lesser extent, the hurdles races? Also, racewalking exists.

I’d say two other factors are 1) casual fans aren’t gonna go see two non-US teams unless they have a tie to one of those countries, with the exception of HUGE names like Argentina and Brazil, and 2) the US isn’t even playing our “normal” opponents, so there were probably assumptions that this was some kind of…

That’s pretty much how he is. Bigger, stronger and faster than most players but zero skills on the ball...which sums up a lot of our discussion about American soccer growing. We know we have great athletes but other countries have the fundamentals of the game - and crazy skills - down so much more than we do.

Except no. Trump is saying a judge is unable to be impartial because of his race, which the judge has/had zero control over and is a protected class in essentially every discrimination law on the books.

Not nearly as often as the NBA, at least recently. The NHL has handed out the President’s Trophy to the team with the best regular season record since the 1985-86 season, and since that point only 8 of its 30 winners have won a Stanley Cup, and just two since 2002. For some perspective, 6 President’s Trophy winners…

It’s called Team Stream, and something they have done in the championship game (and I think both Final Four games as well) for at least three years now. The main network (TBS) had their normal commentary. On TNT, you had UNC themed commentary, and meanwhile on Tru TV, there was the exact same “bias on a national…

I, for one, welcome our old FBI overlords!

As a San Jose native, I’m used to my hometown and the surrounding region constantly trying to mooch off of San Francisco’s events and coolness...this is probably the first time I’ve seen SF blatantly shill for another city’s stuff. It’s both amusing and confusing.

As someone who works walking distance from Levi’s Stadium...your Mom isn’t wrong. I mean, on a larger scale, that’s also why many of the stadiums in California (Candlestick until the Niners managed to snag Levi’s, the Oakland Coliseum, Oracle Arena, Qualcomm Stadium) are really old: it takes a Herculean effort to get…

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Agreed that it’s a joke, but with any kind of “Best Game Ever” poll, are there really more than like five “acceptable” answers that won’t piss off the people who are inclined to care about something like this? We’ve seen ALL of these before, just look at the bracket. Nothing you couldn’t expect from any kind of mass…

I almost stopped reading and assumed it was satire at “He is the best Laker of all time”.

No problem and thanks! And as for leaving questions, yeah probably due to shit like Alex’s side comments and pronunciation. He does the exact same thing live and if he screws up they just re-record his voice and edit that over the flubbed lines. The “meet the contestants” portion is a long-entrenched tradition, that’s…