That photo is fake. The Stanley Cup is never in Toronto.

But would this team have beat the 95-96 Bulls? Obviously not.

Shut up about the Paris Agreement already!!!!

They’re all borderline, but you have to allow a little bit of hyperbole from the writer. As I’m sure you know though, RM’s leadership literally chose Benzema over Higuain five or so years ago because they always preferred him and with the benefit of hindsight, they’d 100% do it again.

This is a genuinely well written article. I generally comment on takes or general soccer knowledge that I don’t agree with in Billy’s articles but this was just really good.

Taek: It’s just no fun to root for a team like Real Madrid. Buying all star teams is dumb and alienates a whole lot of people and that makes them great, but generally unmemorable. Same goes for Barca. The only real exciting team in La Liga is Aletico, because they set up such a good contrast to Real and Barca. Anyone…

“Real’s squad is truly wild; comparing the starting lineups from the Champions League final, not a single Juventus player would crack Madrid’s starting XI, while Real had players on the bench and even in the stands who would probably be the star man for Juve”

When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept for there were no more championships to buy.

I find them generally rude, lazy and mostly incompetent. And (perhaps no coincidence) protected by a strong union.

Counterpoint: they have nobody to please, they can be rude as hell to people without putting their jobs at risk, get paid pretty well and are protected by laws that essentially treat assaulting them as on par with assaulting a cop.

Go work retail or food service anywhere here for a day, and I guarantee you’d be…

“semi” corrupt LOL

Tell that to literally anyone else in the NYC service industry.

(Special shout out to food delivery guys who are out there bicycling through anything from 100 degree days to 20" snowstorms)

I hope Wenger throws a reserve roster at the Europa League. Jose’s path is not one to follow. Instead, a domestic focus is what he needs. Strangely (and follow me on this): I think this might be the best way to keep Sanchez. The man has many, many miles on his legs, but his primary focus has to be the World Cup,…

It WAS his MO, but he moved it and now it’s his CA.

Anyone with familiarity with sports teams owned by Stan Kroenke can tell you exactly what kind of team Arsenal’s going to be.

he still cracks out a column about some half-baked NBA takes every now and then. they’re pretty “jordan on the wizards” though.

Congrats to Kunitz. When I was 37 years, 241 days old, I was already 10 years into a serious questioning of my life choices and wondering why I thought a lifetime of mediocrity would lead to anything not considered ‘mediocre’, which isn’t nearly as fun and exciting as scoring a Game 7 winner.

The first five “offensive demonstrations” are actually just suggestions for new Redskins names, right?

No single image from the long career of the greatest soccer player the world has ever seen—and maybe not even any other image from Barcelona’s entire storied history—is as indelible as that of Lionel Messi slipping off his jersey, turning it around, and brandishing the name on the back of it in front of the tens of…