I mean, I’m not really talking hypotheticals here. The Kingdom of Saud (aka the royal family of Saudi Arabia) is said to fund more terrorist groups than any other in the world.

The not so secret secret of the middle east: Pretty much every Islamist country supports terrorism; it’s just to them their terrorists are “freedom fighters” and the other guys’ terrorists are terrorists. It’s a proxy war going ‘round and ‘round between Sunnis and Shias for decades extending to actual war centuries…

They don’t play the same position exactly, though things tend to get a little fluid in the realm they occupy. Pulisic is usually playing for Dortmund as a left attacking midfielder. Pulisic is really more of a central attacking midfielder, but at Dortmund that position is currently occupied. Neymar is more of a…

I’m kinda skeptical of her testimony in that case then. Not just because most folks wouldn’t go near a puss-leaking dick (I mean seriously wtf?!), but also because usually there isn’t that sort of obvious discharge unless someone has a severe outbreak. I guess it’s not that big of a deal either way, just wanted to…

Why’s he gotta bring up race? - Some racist alt-right asshole on the internet

Fact of the matter is that most people really don’t show any symptoms and don’t know they could potentially pass along herpes. Even if you have an outbreak, you might just confuse it for acne or regular old irritated skin. It’s not like someone is “leaking green radiator fluid” as you say. Chances are decent you are,…

Sha-naan naan naan! Sha-naan naan naan! Hey hey hey! Goodbye!

Never date a boxer ladies, they can only use their hands.

There’s no kicking in boxing.

I know a guy who works at Bungie, gotta say he’s not as stressed or short on time as other people I know who work in the industry. He doesn’t disappear for months at a time working on a project like other folks in the industry do. Bungie really does seem to be walking the walk on their talk of no crunch time and I…

That and the headset itself is a problem. Its weight will cause neck strain in frequent/long term use and it looks goofy as hell. If anything I’d say Microsoft’s “Hololens” augmented reality is much more viable and interesting than Oculus or the others.

Okay, fair point, I don’t think the author is stupid or a dime store economist, just maybe not familiar with how MLS functions enough to call it a Ponzi scheme. Basically the expansion fees are a decent-sized but relatively small drop in the bucket for MLS at this point. $200 million sounds like a lot, but if you…

But you didn’t get basic information about MLS correct. Your degree and knowledge of economics are nice, but weighing in on MLS becomes shaky when you don’t even talk about SUM. You also don’t talk about the league’s big successful clubs who (according to ownership) are at least breaking even or even making a profit.

But, quite frankly, that doesn’t mean he understands MLS’s economic situation. The article, for example, completely ignores SUM and its role in obfuscating financial data and bringing in revenue. Almost certainly the vast majority of the league’s revenue is actually through backchannels in SUM.

They go to Europe until they either retire or they’re not good enough to make good salaries in big European leagues then, yes. This happens to every nationality of player though. At the tail end of their career, most players will find themselves in MLS, Liga MX, or some central or south American league if they want to…

Sports teams are always overpriced though. I mean, there’s no way Newcastle United is worth 400 million pounds if you evaluated it as a profit-making enterprise. Owners buy teams for prestige, not profit.

Of course it would, the budget of one of those teams is far higher. Although, I would note there are quite a few relegation battles that resemble MLS more than they resemble the best in the world. Personally, I’d rather watch and root for a team I actually have a connection to, but to each their own.

I often felt that Japanese RPG makers took the wrong lessons from Final Fantasy 7. The makers of Final Fantasy 7 understood that you needed a certain amount of balance between deadly serious fighting and revenge stuff, love story bits (or multiple love stories, really) and weird wackiness. The key thing is, the wacky…

It’s just kinda sad at this point. Adu doesn’t want to give up chasing his dream, but he’s clearly not talented enough to make it in the big leagues...or the small leagues...or the beer leagues. He’s got the heart, but he doesn’t have the talent, kinda like Billy Haisley.

In other words, he pulled a Trump.