Actually the least embarrassing thing about playing fantasy football.

Yeah, but Billy hadn’t written anything negative about MLS in a couple of hours, so this was like manna from heaven for him.

No, not really. If you were one of those who followed it closely, you’d see that they’re expanding because the demand is there and that they’re not diluting their caliber (it’s actually been much better in recent years than, say, 10 or 15 years ago, and especially as it was at launch), they’re spending more on players…

Either Bob Ryan or Elmer Fudd can be on TV. Not both.

Very likely he has what’s known as a “two-way contract,” where he gets one amount of wages if he’s in the NHL and another if sent to the minors. In any case, what they can or can’t do to or with him is part of the collective bargaining agreement and has been signed off on by the players’ union. You withhold services,…

FWIW, while Kevin Kiley IS listed in various reference works as having played for the Chicago Fire of the WFL in 1974 (with a YOB of 1950, not the 1954 he apparently claims), the University of Wyoming’s latest football media guide does not list him among their all-time lettermen.

Tomorrow he’ll deny ever having said it.

Finally! A happy ending to a Lawrence Phillips story.

Paul Allen is whiny little bitch of a homer. Always has been. From when the Cardinals knocked the Vikings out of the playoffs on the last play to when Favre threw the interception against New Orleans, he always acts like the most put-out guy.

Or a workaround to the almost-inevitable lawsuit that would say if you pay the quarterback, you have to pay the coxswain.

An indictment of China’s system, no doubt.

Lovie Smith, Defensive Guy, had a defense that gave up 410 points last year and 417 points this year.

Except it’s not exactly true. George Wilson was their coach from 1957-1964 and then was the first head coach of the Dolphins from 1966-1969. Looks like no one since Wilson, though. (Darryl Rogers did become a CFL head coach and Bobby Ross did go back to being a college head coach.)

And yet...he left the Bucs at the altar twice.

That particular library book was repeatedly checked out by 11-year-old Colin Cowherd.

In a related story, Greg Oden was injured watching this video.

In the right circumstances, yes. In theory, it’s (usually) to protect the weak from the strong, not to protect the strong from getting in trouble for leaking shit to a journalist because they get off on it.

“Blunder reveals Billy talks out of his ass.”

And Phil Mushnick’s next column just wrote itself.

Cowherd says he had it coming.