Hell, in each season almost every NFL team has at least one rookie drafted in the 3rd or 4th round playing meaningful minutes, if not starting altogether, due to roster restrictions, outstanding performance, and/or injuries. Guys in those rounds are the building blocks for future championships, and it absolutely makes…

This is excellent, and as someone who coaches high school and collegiate speech and debate, I see this all the time. Parents are convinced that if their kid doesn't win some local/regional tournament or fails to qualify for nationals, they're never going to get into an Ivy League school or top 10 law program. This…

And with that, Albert Burneko just became ESPN's newest source.

How dare you use humor for a site that (used to) be a place for such things! I hope all these sanctimonious burners taught you a valuable internet lesson while they patted themselves on the back for how moral they are, good sir! And harumph!

He's never done shit, except rebuild the German side to a third place WC finish after a winless Euro 2004 and take an outmanned USMNT that was picked to go winless to the Round of 16.

Actually, historically those A's players used PED's early in their careers which explained their youthful dominance and late career fades (Canseco, McGwire, Tejada, and Giambi all come to mind). But sure, Donaldson must be on 'roids even though his body hasn't exploded and there's plenty of data indicating he changed…

Gotcha, thanks. Doesn't that system wholly favor the power regions though? It's not like an Asian or North American team is gonna make the top 7 rankings, and if Europe has its own pot (and therefore more teams) shouldn't they have to face each other more anyway? It just strikes me as a way for the European and South…

Really dumb question: how the hell do the groups get drawn for the WC? It just strikes me as odd that sides who do well in qualifying, like the Netherlands or the U.S., have to face really difficult group play, but teams like Mexico barely make it in and seemingly have a much more favorable draw. This seems to happen…

Man, isn't "real" club soccer so much cooler? They've got fascism, graft, corruption, match-fixing, and callous disregard for human life as part of their proud history, to go along with the rioting, hooliganism, and racism that occurs today. Yeah, until MLS clubs start shooting rival club presidents on the street,…

He's right. Testing has become a lot more sophisticated over the years, and kits can even tell you what shit has been cut into it. For sure, there's tons of folks out there peddling "molly" when it's truly not, but to pretend that there's no pure MDMA is akin to saying you can't get pure cocaine or acid in this…

People who turn to Seth McFarlane for their humor fix in an age where we have folks like Louis C.K., Jim Jefferies, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Aziz Ansari, John Mulaney, and countless others are like those who hit up the Olive Garden in Times Square when they visit New York.

While I know he's in Boston as he's still being a badass with the BFD, I don't know if he's still in Southie or not. An addendum to that story: when my brother was being carried into the tent, his cammies were (obviously) soaked with blood. The corpsman walked over, looked under my brother's pants, and in a thick-ass…

I don't have issues with Hudson, a straight male, lending support to the LGBTQ cause. Yet, not outing someone who just came out is literally one of the first things you learn in LGBTQ sensitivity. It'd get you immediately expelled from pretty much any organization if you did that as an employee or volunteer, as again…

Excellent piece Barry. Although, I'd like to offer my thoughts on a particular line: Coming out is now a stage-managed media event, scripted and choreographed in a way that ensures America receives only the most telegenic version of what at bottom is still a deeply personal act.

I dunno man, the sport loses a lot of credibility to a lot of people when total clods like Chuck Liddell - who got his start brawling with drunk UCSB bros in college bars - and Brock Lesnar can win UFC titles. Yeah, I know they were both accomplished collegiate wrestlers, but how much does it say about the "technique"…

Billy Haisley [scolding Croats after eliminated in group play]: See, this is what happens when you waste time with bullshit football. The EPL is clearly[gets knifed]

Kickstarter idea: Send Haisley down to Rio so he can berate fans of every national team except Brazil, Argentina, Spain, Germany, Portugal, Italy, and the Netherlands for supporting inferior football.

I get the outrage, but what the hell does Al Jolson have to do with Vanderbilt athletics in the first place?

Shut up about poorly written troll pieces that intentionally antagonize [insert overly sensitive fanbase]

Egypt could be, but they'd need a stable political system for at least a decade before FIFA would even consider them given everything that's happened. I can't even imagine a scenario where a country undergoes a revolution months before hosting the World Cup and cancels everything. Even then, they've had some nasty…