Texas actually has lots of fantastic beers, they're just all near-impossible to find outside of Texas. Real Ale, 512, Live Oak, Adelberts, and more are all worth trying.

He'd just go have another company like Sports Illustrated fund it. They'd jump at it, he'd still have his major brand promoting him. The thing ESPN offers is multichannel distribution. Turner would be interesting, since I'd assume he'd do backflips to get onto Inside the NBA.

If Simmons wanted to leave, my guess is a site like Bleacher Report (despite his complaints about their iframe use of Grantland), SB Nation, Fox Sports, Sports Illustrated, The Sporting News, etc. would pay him a giant sum to come (and since non-compete's are unenforceable in California and non-soliticitation clauses…

This is the single best comment I've ever read.

The penalty for high stepping is ridiculous given the context - Deion is there, his idol, and the high step was so obviously directed at Deion and not the Bucs (if you actually thinking taunting should be a penalty at all). Also, totally worth it.

Iron Man is the one that somehow seems to keep being forgotten (probably because we've had 3 more Tony Stark movies, and the subsequent Iron Man installments were some of the weaker MCU films). But the original is still pretty much the film that convinced Marvel to go full throttle on the Avengers and MCU. If Iron Man…

>>I'm pretty excited to see that guy hang out with Thor and Tony Stark and the crew.

He would definitely be paid $100mm per season if it were possible. $45mm for on court value seems a bit low, especially given that his defensive abilities are tough to quantify, as well as the roster building and in game flexibility his versatility provides (basically, the only position he can't really play at all is…

Have to imagine this means he's taking a short deal (2-3 years) with the Heat with a player option on the last year. That gives him one more shot at a max deal at age 32, which would be old for a normal player, but for LeBron, as long as he is 75% of who he is now, will get that from someone.

I'm thankful that, if there are people calling for benching him, they aren't loud enough for me to hear. Yes, he's looked off. Off for him is still pretty good, and there is not a single player on our bench who has the upside of him at peak form. Also, the best case center mid upgrade from Bradley to whoever they…

Literally every team has likely called the Marlins about Stanton. Actually, any GM who didn't should be fired. The Marlins are by far the most likely team to trade a superstar over paying him. Also, the Marlins should also be listening to each teams interest, since, if every team thinks there's a shot at getting him,…

>>OH HEY THE TALL GUY DUNKED AGAIN WHAT A FUCKING SURPRISE

Is there a good site that shows lineups by formation? The Google-ESPNFC is a really slick integration, but the lineups don't show you any formation information.

I only ever lived in Austin, so I never experienced that.

Yea, I have family who live in Vancouver, WA (just across the border from Portland). They work and live in WA (no income tax), and do all their shopping in Portland. From what I understand, the city basically exists as a tax shelter.

Having only lived in large states, far from borders (CA and TX), it's interesting to see the behavior changes different tax structures induce on the East Coast, where it's realistic to drive to another state simply to purchase something.

Feels like KY, WV, and maybe even TN are underrepresented since sales wouldn't pick up moonshiners, right?

Having grown up in Palm Springs, I always wonder where the people who decided you simply cannot play soccer in 115-125 degree heat were, since I did it every summer. That said, the experience definitely makes me understand why we shouldn't make anyone do it, since it sucks, a lot.

Wait, what? Facebook generally doesn't even access time on site metrics. They focus on engagement rate.

Because he has 13 minutes worth of things to say