As a Spurs fan, I've been through the stages of grief. First, there was denial. Our Weezus would never leave us! Then came anger. That ingrate is just pretending to be hurt! After that came the bargaining. Maybe AVB can figure out a way to convince him to stay with us! Finally, came acceptance. Real Madrid are about…

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Now, for the all important question: Who does Patrick Stewart support?

It's really easy for us in the US to criticize this, given that there are really no consequences for us. For them, though, this "accident" was the difference between continuing a promising career and time in the gulag. I can't say I blame them.

Arsenal is profitable, but their ownership is not keen on spending that lucre because they wish to stay profitable.

If Jozy Altidore is successful at Sunderland, his stock could rise, and you might see him at a club further up the table in the next few years. Barring some sort of injury (knocking on all the wood, here), this will probably happen.

This is also true.

To be fair, it's one of the better problems to have.

I see some parallels between both Moyes and Wenger in the silly season. Both are used to working on threadbare budgets and having to search for undervalued players and coax the rest into overachieving, and are now in positions where their budgets are much higher, and the expectations of big moves are higher. They…

Yeah, it's like saying "The pilot looked out the window of the 747 and noticed that the wing was on fire and one of the engines was out, and then manually landed on the nearest flat stretch of gravel." Michael Bradley's pass completion was an insane 93%. There's a reason he is the engine that drives our midfield. He…

Jozy Altidore looked at the scoreline at halftime and said, "Nope. Not today," and then proceeded to take the offense onto his shoulders and pretty much just wreck the place. At 23, he's already a complete class act. I think we can look forward to many years of Jozy being amazing.

Yeah, Altidore really does have the best first touch in all of football, combined with the worst second touch. Once he realized he only needs the one, he went from a scoring threat to a force of nature.

While yes, it's a mod, running a full-scale MMO is no small task. In that regard, 80,000 seems a little lowball, budget-wise. I hope for their sake that they have alternative funding sources already lined up.

Actually, the most Mariner of ways to lose is to get yourself a 10-0 lead and take it into the 9th inning. Then, you bring on your worst reliever. This is saying something, because you are the Mariners, and all of your relievers are bad. The reliever will then proceed to give up 20 unanswered runs on walks, hit…

Zuckercorn: TAKE TO THE SEA!

The other thing is that base rookie salary goes further in some locations than in others. A guy making 35k in, say, Columbus, Portland, Salt Lake City, or Kansas City can do a lot more with it than a guy in San Jose, or Seattle, LA, or New York. This isn't any judgment on any of the teams or the cities involved, but…

I don't think you will find much argument about EPL being a higher-quality league, but the fact is that at Spurs, Dempsey is not getting a whole lot of play-time outside of FA Cup matches, and the most important thing going into a World Cup year is getting playing time, because that helps you keep in form. Riding the…

There really have to be two sides to a story for there to be a controversy. I did not see anyone who is pro-moose punching. What's the story? Some dude punched a guy in a suit. End of story.

If we are talking present-day Dempsey vs. present-day Donovan, then yes, but if you are talking about over the course of their respective careers, I would probably go with Donovan, though I think Deuce still has a bit more left in the tank than Donovan.

No love for Vancouver's Daigo Kobayashi's insane midfield volley against Columbus back in week two? I'd say that one edges this out.