Yes, it’s called every school that qualifies for March Madness, every single year. There is no credible Division I NCAA program that isn’t routinely violating NCAA rules. It’s just a question of who gets caught.

The distance to Japan thing seems weird. It’s not like he’d be going back and forth during the season, though I guess maybe he has family who would, but on a super long flight like that a few extra hours don’t make that much of a difference, especially if you’re flying business class.

Lol Patriots fans are so predictably the worst. “Hurr, the refs missed a pass interference, durr, targeting someone’s head is just fair.”

I think it’s great that MLS is getting better and more people are getting into it. But there is nothing - nothing - funnier than American soccer fans adopting the insane, violent tribalism of European and South American fans, especially when the team they root for existed for fewer than 20 years.

Prairie Home Companion fucking sucks and people who insist that it’s a magical piece of Americana are insufferable, so I’m gonna file this under “sexual harassers who I’m not bummed to discover are bad people.”

Goddamn, I can’t find it on their website but the other week the Daily News ran a hot take about how Geno is actually really underrated and now I can’t wait to see how Pravda is going to cover this now that it’s real.

An equally crazy idea would be for the most influential newspaper in the world to stop giving a microphone to people who reflexively argue in bad faith about topics they’re mostly ignorant on.

I’m shocked and appalled that Peter King has a bad take.

Jesus, Drew. No.

Lucky for me I’m not an Arsenal fan. Finishes in the league aside, it would be delusional to look at this Arsenal team and think they have a better chance of winning the league than City, United, or Chelsea this year. They can still put together a good cup run (though not in Europe), but they don’t have the mental…

Are you high? Arsenal always pull out a few wins like this per season and then they always shit the bed. It’s insane to think that this team, as currently constituted and managed, is in the same league as City, United, and Chelsea. They’re barely in the same league as Liverpool and Spurs, and even then only because…

Right, but his quote was kind of maliciously taken out of context in this article. In the full quote he explicitly says that only victims can grant forgiveness and that if and only if they do so can society as a whole decide whether someone gets a second chance.

(He was asked a question in an interview and his quotes have been mostly taken out of context)

Yeah, I always have trouble wrapping my head around the idea of a salary so large that after one year (or, hell, after a few months) in the job you’d never need to work again.

Plenty of other people have already said it, but this is shockingly ignorant, though it unfortunately reflects the view of many Americans who also don’t know what they’re talking about. The reason we have a two-party system is because of how our elections are structured, not because of anything inherent in the parties…

But is Bill Simmons writing fan fiction about it?

Sigh. I’m ready for the Rangers to fire AV, sell high at the trade deadline, and rebuild for next year. I am so, so disappointed in this team that Hank will never get the Stanley Cup he deserves.

Can this all end with the NFL taking the Cowboys away from Jerry Jones AND Roger Goodell losing his job?

He’s pretty clearly saying that women who enter comedy are brave for doing so because traditionally it’s a very male-dominated, sexist industry, and that while things have gotten better for women in comedy since he started there’s still a long way to go and male comedians, himself included, need to do better.

Bart Scott is the only one of these people I’ve heard of before, but your average bodega clerk or cabbie has way better sports takes that Francesa so they can’t be all bad.