Pep deserves a lot of credit but you can’t forget Manuel Pellegrini as well. His support of Sterling (who was a lot more sensitive to coaching criticism then especially after the contract drama and Brendan Rodgers) during his first season in Manchester was a key part of Raheem’s development and adjustment to City.

I normally hate WWE mood lighting, but, like many things with The Fiend, this was an exception...for a little while. Then the match fell off a cliff, to say nothing of the difficulty that the fans in the building had seeing the match.

Why post this? It’s not March, man.

“Please look at Nikola Jokic.”

I’ve worked in TV, radio, and an ad agency over the last ten-plus years, just so you know what I’m about to describe isn’t just coming out of my ass, based on nothing:

I have a bad feeling that Kofi’s getting squashed.

Brock winning would just give me the vibe that they really have nothing creatively to back up the big move than to just make Smackdown into Raw (something I’m already worried about with the Cole/Renee/Corey team moving there). It’d just feel like “well this is our one idea we have going for the last five years so…

It’s a shame Robert Bork passed away because I would definitely watch a WWE series based on Robert Bork antagonizing Roman Reigns.

That was dirty.

Today I learned: Sáček is the Czech equivalent of Sanchez.

Iiiiiiiiiiiiin West Philadelphia

I knew that comment would have a swift and severe backsplash.

An inexperienced coach needs a reliable brain trust around him.

Wait ‘til you hear about this singer, Barry White.

+one billion for that. It literally ruined the entire movie for me. .

Still more subtle than the end of The Departed.

It could be, but the guy is pushing 50 so there’s metabolism at play. Also, he admitted on his podcast he intentionally bulked up prior to his New Japan run because he wanted to be the out-of-control maniac gaijin, a la Bruiser Brody.

That Trump-ian “Awaits much deserved THANK YOU” tweet is some of the best heel work in a long, long time

nobody ever looks forward to a Bill Belichick press conference; it's a little bit of the mumbly