Or maybe the NBA could drop their age restriction and develop an actual minor league system, and not demand that the universities of this country develop talent for them.

But I’m going to bet that the NBA is terrified that a lesser product but with names like UCLA, Duke, UNC, UConn, etc. on the jerseys would outdraw…

Literally the first person to “thru-hike” the PCT turns out to have faked it (Eric Ryback). Although he did hike most of it, he did skip large chunks.

That said, his memoir is a GREAT read, even if you know that he got some car rides.

Pretty sure if the UCI mandated that beginning in 2018, the women’s field must have the same salary requirements as the men’s teams, around about 25-50% of the UCI Women’s teams would fold immediately. UCI needs to drum up interest by doing more televised events like La Course and perhaps pairing women’s races with…

Your first sentence is wrong (good piece otherwise, honestly, and I mean that sincerely).

The WH Press Corps has always been the plum career achievement assignment, but little more. Little news is ever broken by WH Press Corps journalists - they are almost always stenographers to history rather than the 4th Estate…

Nice.

So you were right.. until the White House (aka the government) weighed in and stated this was a fireable offense. I’d very much enjoy Deadspin LLC’s take on how that would factor into a wrongful termination lawsuit.

That was in 2016. He was the best rider then, too. He attacked once in 2017. But then if you saw him and Sky in the Vuelta in 2016, you saw supremely boring racing - and a combo of Contador and Quintana doing balls out attacking that blew him and Sky apart.

Froome is supremely talented (his support ride for Wiggins was…

The feat he performed? Amazing.
The Tour? Boring as sin.

Sky and their power meters have sucked the life out of Grand Tours. Froome attacked... once in the Tour de France. ONCE. And it was reeled in. (He rode a much more entertaining Vuelta, but it’s not hard to top his boring Tour performance.

These guys are all so good that the can nail power outputs pretty consistently…

It’s why I love watching Dan Martin. He gave an interview after one of the late mountain stages in this year’s tour, where he attempted what I think were 5 separate attacks. The interviewer basically asked, WTF IS WRONG WITH YOU? and Martin, to his credit, simply replied with “it’s more fun that way.”

Look, can someone please explain what the fuck a “Blake Bortles” is?

Hey, maybe he would have raped her if he wasn’t drunk! It’s a thing we can’t actually know!

If he had abstained from sex, this wouldn’t be an issue. QED

Also, I am enjoying a nice Rye IPA as I respond to this.

So what you’re saying is that abstinence is the key to avoiding such situations, right?

Perhaps the accused should have just performed a different form of abstinence to avoid potentially raping a person. You know. Sexual abstinence.

Can someone please answer what the fuck a “Blake Bortles” is??

So upset that I can’t even spell Aaron right.

As a Giants fan, it legitimately upsets me to watch other fans dump on Eli as a shitty QB. Have you seen what else passes for an NFL QB lately? The fuck is a “Blake Bortles”!?

Eli is a doofy looking mouth breather that can sure throw a backbreaking pick with the best of him, but have these fans seen the cast of QBs not…

Now that (a century too late) the idea of removing Confederate monuments has finally achieved at least borderline conventional wisdom status

Huddersfield Town may get smoked this year, but by all accounts, they play a pell mell style that is frenetic in pace. Swansea belongs in this group (except for the inevitable 3 goals per game they’ll give up), but nay I say, nay to Huddersfield Town!

This should be saved for Bannon’s obituary: “...and revealed their author as an impotent melting pepperoni-and-cheese sculpture of Vigo the Carpathian.”