In other words, we'll go from being active participants in the exploitation of "student athletes" in the name of amateurism to being willfully blind to the exploitation of "student athletes" in the name of amateurism. Well played NCAA.

Physically yes, but everyone knows that "Long Island" refers to the Long Island suburbs of NYC: Nassau and Suffolk counties. I've lived here my whole life and no one in Nassau/Suffolk would ever call a Brooklyn/Queens resident a "Long Islander", no Manhattanite would ever say "I'm going out to LI" in reference to…

For starters this is NYC, and still about 35 minutes from the Nassau border (60 minutes with normal traffic). I doubt someone from LI went to that trouble to drive that far to deface a statue.

Nearly all respondents expressed serious concern that the quest for revenue in Division I is undermining academic and institutional ideals.

can't believe we didn't get a single A-Rod/Fountain Mom photoshop. I'd have done it myself if I knew the first thing about photoshop...

I hope there are lifeguards around, I hear white people are terrible swimmers.

She ages about 20 years from that first pic (pregame) to the third pic (mugshot) in the main image up top. Incredible.

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And you forgot only missionary position and only 1-on-1 contact, no 2-on-1 or 3-on-1 business

Sarcastaball here we come!

In other news, the Gronk smash has been specifically exempted under the new policy.

I'm slowly starting to think it's JaVale's world and we're all just living in it.

Question:

Tottenham didn't really get an ROI, they lost like a million or 2 net on the transfer fees I think.

I suppose that could happen, but I think he won't get as much money overseas, so he might not want that, and the point is I think (and I believe Klinsmann thinks) that it's best for his top tier players to be honing their craft in Europe in the run-up to 2014.

Oh, I don't doubt that no one would have matched the transfer fee and the contract Dempsey fetched from MLS/Seattle. But, I was always under the impression that players had some control over their destiny in the transfer game, since the contract with the transferring team basically gets ripped up and the transferee…

Good to know. Thanks for the info.

But Dempsey isn't Shea. Dempsey could find a home where he'd play 90 for a top-flight European club, he has that level of talent. He chose the money over continuing to play top-flight soccer. I don't blame him, I would do the same thing, but that doesn't soften the blow any as a USMNT fan.

I guess I refuse to accept the fact that if Tottenham wanted to rid itself of Dempsey (and why wouldn't they, they're loaded on striker talent), they couldn't have unloaded him somewhere in Europe or even the EPL where he could play 90 minutes. There are more than 2 options. It's not either 20 mins a week at…

Klinsmann has emphasized before that he wants his players playing at the top levels in Europe and competing in the Champions and Europa leagues. Certainly it would be nice to be well-rested, but seeing as how almost all the players on almost every other team will be coming off long club seasons heading into the World…