Letting those teams into a World Cup and getting pummeled is still better than now where we never see them at all, and they can’t generate any real interest or funding in their poor countries because qualifying isn’t the same as getting in.

I used to love baseball and in general, I love the game itself. But the game is going to need a Twenty20 cricket revolution if it’s going to survive and not be horseracing in a few decades once the media rights boom bursts. 

I don’t like the rules. I miss the old days of letting the kids play. But I can appreciate generally why the rules exist. Also, like the women’s golf tour has realized, you have to make exceptions for elite talent because it helps your game and sometimes players peak early. 

I think most Celtics fans would have taken the title over seeing Toronto (or worse, Golden State) get it during Lebron’s reset year. 

Yeah no idea what his New Balance deal is worth, but surely Ballmer gives him a Kobe contract at the end of his career if he wants it, to make up the difference. I was thinking it’s a lot of money to leave on the table, but...so much can change from year to year, that controlling your own destiny is worth the price.

I’m moving to Finland.

It was a pretty open secret he wasn’t straight. Anyone surprised wasn’t paying attention. 

Lots of colleges do that now. They just honor the jerseys, they don’t retire them so that other guys can wear the numbers and save retirements for a big deal. Just a recruiting thing. 

ray borque played one year in colorado for the avs, won a title. they retired his #.

One of the things about these qualifiers is they come in playing pretty hot after those rounds of qualifying, so they’re already raring to go.  They also have nothing to lose, and we’ve noticed lately these kids who keep going deep into Grand Slams don’t have any fear because the moment hasn’t even hit them yet and…

In the defense of that dumbass, Serena had been on ESPN earlier in the day saying exactly the same thing that Coco reminded her of Venus even their bodies are similar. So this lazy dumbass was just being lazy and a dumbass. 

She’s the #2 player in the world. It comes with the job. 

Wonder why she fired her coach. Seems like her team is wrecking a really good thing. She’s young though, so there’s still lots of time to get the wheels back on. Even if Sasha was the canary in the coal mine, there’s clearly a lot going on here but she had these problems before she went on that crazy run. She’s a…

it’s not about signing KD whether he’s Willis Reed or not. It’s signaling to other free agents that you can play for the Knicks again. It’s about relevance after trading a franchise guy under a rookie contract to clear cap space for THIS GUY. Now he gets to haunt you in YOUR CITY. 

Same. I’m entirely here for it and kudos to whoever snuck this in, because you know it took that and not a team meeting. 

I have zero problem with this. Zero. 

you just aged out, it’s ok.

Blue Jays fan here. This checks out. We’ve been sending our best pitchers to New York for decades. 

even less, really. 

If the CFL had a US tv deal on a major network, I think it’d do fine. Also, NFL Europe would also work okay if it were rebooted but...NFL owners would have to care