I agree that changes to the two-party system are long overdue and desperately needed. But I am not sure that change is possible, tbh. Since 1832, there have been 13 3rd-party/independent presidential candidates who have won >5% of the popular vote. Since WWII, there have been four. Where are those parties now? Like it…

That would be a trolling so epic even I would probably have to give him a golf clap — and then cry because that probably means a President Gingrich.

But are there, really?! There’s no way anyone not named Clinton or Drumpf will be occupying the Oval Office next January (unless Drumpf wins the election and then walks away, as rumored last week), so while additional names appear on the ballot, they’re irrelevant to the decision at hand.

In the United States, in 2016, voting for a 3rd-party candidate is akin to not voting at all — the main difference being you get the little lapel sticker. It may be your way to “send a message” (see how well that worked for the Brexiters who had next-day voter’s remorse) or stay true to your own beliefs, but it will…

He’s an absentee father, he doesn’t like to discipline his kids. He leaves that to the kid’s mother (i.e., university president) to handle. He’s all about giving his kids new toys and ice cream sundaes.

I actually didn’t frame any debate — I merely corrected the misstatements in the article. But you do you.

The NCAA rule book didn’t (and to my knowledge, doesn’t) have a rule about coaches sexually assaulting minors. That’s not really the NCAA’s purview. I’m sure that’s why the NCAA all but rescinded the penalties imposed on PSU and has not taken action at Baylor — it (hopefully) has learned its lesson. (To be clear: I’m…

Co-Defensive Coordinator, actually. But that’s more accurate than what Tom originally wrote.

Greg Schiano was an assistant coach at Penn State from 1990 to 1995. He previously coached the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the NFL, and is currently the head football coach at Rutgers University.

So participants in the Race to Cure Breast Cancer are pro testicular, lung, skin, brain, prostate, etc. cancers?? By your logic, they must be. Otherwise they would only support organizations to cure ALL cancers.

While those certainly are bad things, they’re also a different subject (at least different from the one I was discussing) and are not requisite aspects of an elite college athletics program. Because some (or even many, in your estimation, apparently) schools have these issues doesn’t negate the benefits that the…

Look, if you don’t like college sports, great — no one is forcing you to pay attention to it, spend money on it, etc. But to argue that increasing donations to the general fund, increasing the number of student applications, and increasing the overall academic strength of enrollees — which virtually any college…

It may hit, but it’s inaccurate at most schools. It presupposes that the money used to pay a coach’s salary would otherwise be donated to endow a faculty position or scholarship, a conclusion that is unsupported by any evidence. The (usually quite large) donations used to pay coach’s salaries are from boosters who pay…

Several studies and anecdotal evidence show that elite college athletics (in the revenue sports) increase donations to the school (not just athletics, but the general fund and non-athletic departments), increase number of student applications, and increase overall academic strength of enrollees. Maybe that isn’t…

I don’t follow baseball and have no ill will towards St. Louis, but Deadspin’s tracking and posting of every Cardinal loss brings a smile to my face. I don’t know why, but it does. Carry on.

Not sure if his dash cam was permanent and/or running the day of the crash, but you’re right — if it was filming during the accident, it would provide a lot of clues as to what happened/went wrong.

The play was over, the ball was dead. I don’t think that’d be a problem in the NFL either (though I’m not a Shield rules expert).

Well, he could’ve been watching on an iPad, laptop, etc., but I agree — unless the truck driver heard sound effects, it was probably just an audiobook. (He also was listening to an audiobook in the video posted in another article on Jalopnik)

I don’t think there is a size of formula container big enough that would deter me from buying it. We use Amazon subscribe & save, and get a 4-pack of 23.2 oz cans of formula each month — and it doesn’t last 30 days. Kids just go through so much it’s not even funny.

But he hasn’t even been terminated yet. He was “suspended with intent to terminate” — which, granted, is like being ‘mostly dead’, but I wouldn’t think that would trigger a wrongful termination suit. Hell, there’s rumblings that BU boosters want him to remain suspended for the coming season and then return for the…