"I have no proof it was fed by the oppo campaign, so obviously you're full of lies because you have no concrete proof and disagree with my assertion!"

I feel like this needs to be said every time pro/rel gets brought up: it doesn't solve the problem of having too few good teams, it solves the problem of having too many good teams. The power five Euro leagues all have more clubs with the history, the fan support, and the infrastructure to play in the top tier than…

Both are looking at it in different lights, and that's totally reasonable. Klinsmann doesn't care about whether pro soccer really succeeds in the US, as his concerns lie with player development. It doesn't matter to him if MLS has teams like Rochester in place of the Chicago Fire and is a glorified feeder league for…

That is a possibility, but there are a slew of regional broadcasting rules and such that could make the RSN game swap a little more difficult, like which RSN would get what cut of the money for a game played out of market. Also, this would only really work for RSN's under the same parent company - it's easy to see how…

I didn't even think about that, but it's a good point. RSN's seem like they're both the best and worst things for the sport in this regard.

Dumb idea: why not reduce the number of games, but make them longer? If Bron is right and a few extra minutes wouldn't matter, you could have fewer games, but make up for it with more TV time, which translates into one more commercial break and makes in-game advertising (including the new uniform ad patches) more…

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Holy shit, when did Thomas Kinkade start designing sports logos?

When did Keeler ever say that Yancey wasn't a true native because he failed blood quantum standards? She says "We can't find anything about him that's native," which is a whole lot more inclusive than blood quantum. She, like the other activists, are rightly calling out someone who has changed his story multiple times…

I don't get into blood quantum, either, because that's a colonial mindset

Hey man, this guy has been a fan of soccer since, like, 2006 and watches real shit like the EPL so he totally knows more about how to run the United States' league system than the people who built modern American soccer from the ground up.

Let's play a game: if the league in question has been in existence for much longer than you've been even following the fucking sport, you don't get to snobbishly deride the way it's run compared to its foreign counterparts and lecture on about how it's so beneath your refined, cultivated sensibility about the sport.…

This. I think it's totally fine if you want to follow a UEFA team, but pretentious Americans like Haisley - who even admits he's been into this sport for less than a decade! - turning their nose down at MLS like it's so beneath them is snobby myopic bullshit. The product isn't the best, but it's rapidly improving and…

Personally, I'm all for Ray Rice playing this season. In fact, I think he should have his suspension lifted and that he be used as a feature back and an integral component of their offense.

This was an excellent takedown and as always, well-written and hysterical. That someone would even have this as a "revenge fantasy" is disturbing enough in the first place. Yes, it can be annoying when a child throws a tantrum in public while you're trying to go about your business. Yes, it's frustrating when the…

Despite people's personal prejudices, there are no laws oppressing Michael Sam. He is free to live and work where he pleases.

On their next Rams segment, ESPN will be astonished when they find that nobody freaked out when Sam had an open cut on his arm, that he's not a threat around children, and the only people he's "recruited" are some local church groups to attend a community fundraising event.

Fitting that he's a Sun Devil, given that he's clearly proud about the very thing that will send his soul to hell.

Actually, it's more like dipshit hipsters who wear faux-vintage Stockton jerseys, yet can't even name the current head coach or any player on the roster not named Hayward, while sipping 3.2 beer in some overpriced bar in downtown SLC.

Every single character played by Melissa McCarthy is a poor attempt at creating the real-world version of Pam Poovey from Archer. Except, you know, without the quality writing, originality, comedic timing, or even a fraction of Amber Nash's talent.