I get your point, but the women I’ve known who’ve been in abusive situations are essentially terrified to speak up or leave.  They’re afraid their guy is going to kill them.

This, exactly. I’ve said basically the same thing for years. Star athletes are given special treatment from a young age, teams or programs are sanctified by their communities, etc. It sets up all kinds of bad situations.

I’m with you on 3 out of 4, but the Super Bowl?  You’re gonna make baby Jesus cry.

Perhaps, but Kuchar, being super-wealthy, could’ve seen this as an opportunity to NOT be a penurious asshole, to recognize that paying this guy $130k was indeed life-changing. Pay the dude the normal 10% and you have a nice PR story. I’m sure his accountant can turn that money into plenty of write-offs, anyway.

Hey, that’s good money for someone used to making a dollar a day!

Well, Jimmy Haslam is an idiot. Just like the comically inept Lerner family before him, the Browns are just a chance for him to play real-life Madden Dynasty Mode. And - dern it! - he ain’t very good at it.

I fully believe that pro athletes and celebrities routinely get away with stuff that would land the average person in jail, or legal trouble.

I hate the message “why even bother to aspire to something better than mass-produced swill?” Of course “better” is entirely subjective. But it’s like when someone tells me they’re a coffee fanatic and then says how much they love their Keurig. I just want to say “you don’t actually know what good coffee is, do you?”

Ugh! Then you’ve got Big Dates coming after you.  No thanks!

I can’t tell. I’m not used to using pelvic bones as a point of reference. Maybe his hip sockets are small?

I don’t watch much hockey - that’s not what they normally do?

Right - a detail that most people don’t consider is that a good OC or HC will do whatever they can to exploit weaknesses in defensive personnel.  Belichick is gonna go after rookie DBs, or second-stringers who are playing for the hurt starter.  That kind of thing.

Holy shit - A-fucking-men to that! Here’s a very generalized example: how many young QBs are thrown to the wolves before they’re ready? They either get injured or their confidence/reputation is destroyed and then they’re tossed away.

Your ma was a beautiful woman.

God bless her.

So where’s the FBI safehouse on that map?  Sorry, the Pepsi™ FBI Safehouse.

Just the wording in the commercial, even, is fishy. I looked at my wife and said “Oh sure, who sponsored those surveys?”

Cox had ONE job - stuff it in the hole!!  And he BLEW IT!  It can’t be that hard!  Just explode when you’re ready! 

ESPN: “The only scandal will be how AWESOME this is, dude!!!”

“...College football gave us the phrase All-American, and other words and expressions that have enriched the American lexicon — quarterback, fight song, sideline, cheerleader, tailgate, redshirt, Hail Mary (the play, not the prayer) — on the field and off....”