I live in Boston and the "Patriot Way" myth makes me want to gag.

Wouldn't it be a Manziel obsession obsession?

I lived in Mali. Stoning isn't legal (or practiced) there.

Are there any books are the Firestone debacle? If so can you recommend any of 'em?

One thing I never really understood was crazy-high roster sizes. At my alma mater, there were 38 (!!!) players on the men's lacrosse roster. And this was Div. III...

Bro do you even name?

Motherfucker, did you just put yourself in with Jim Brown?

If you like Mourinho — hell, even if you don't like him — you MUST watch Special 1 TV. It's on the YouTubes, and (like José) it's fantastic. Do it. Be champions!

How about listing a half-dozen? I, for one, would love to try some of them as I just moved to Mass.

Out of interest, can we ALL agree on another point — that players should be able to profit off their own likeness? E.g. sign autographs for money, sell apparel, whatever. I ask this regardless of whether players are able to unionize or if the colleges ever pay them to play.

I don't know, but you have the _coolest_ handle on Deadspin.

Players are dying to go to UK now, but if you're not good enough to play there you're not going to get a scholarship offer today. How would this be any different?

Well, I'm glad we found some common ground :-) I certainly think UConn women's basketball is a great example of a women's sport that could see players getting paid.

"Removing any semblance of parity" is a pretty different question to "How do we decide who gets the money", is it not? And could you please identify for me where the parity is right now?

I'm not even sure that my answer is the right answer, though.

Hah, well, it wasn't supposed to be. I am employee #11,000 (and change!) at one. I am a very, very small cog in a very, very big wheel. But the point stands — the income distribution won't be "fair"; you are going to give John Wall more money than you gave that Div. III kid (Jack Taylor?).

To be fair, the one place public universities do model themselves on the Fortune 500 is that they pay coaches exorbitant salaries. Remember the "Infographic: Is Your State's Highest-Paid Employee A Coach?" story?

Well, sure, I'm sure Title IX will come up. And it may very well go to court. But in every Deadspin story (or ESPN story) where student-athlete pay comes up, commenters seem to throw up "But Title IX says we'll have to pay women's sports!" as if it were a foregone conclusion, which it doesn't seem to be.

Sorry, the end of the first paragraph should have said: The test you mentioned looks at the *percentage* of scholarship opportunities by gender needing to match the *percentage* of enrolled students by gender.

In your example, Title IX wouldn't come in to play at all! The test you mentioned looks at the *percentage* of scholarship opportunities by gender needing to match the *percent