A lot of dudes can throw hard. Spin rate is really a measure of how tight he’s pinching the seams, more grip strength = less wind resistance. A high rpm signifies the ball can break more while maintaining velocity.

Shortly thereafter Luis Avilan threw an Eephus pitch that clocked in at 42 mph slower than Kopech’s fastest pitch.  Baseball is weird.  

“Why can’t my dog sit just outside the restaurant patio?”

died in St. Petersburg due to complications from pneumonia

Gone too soon . . .

One of those instances where even though you know there are good reasons for not doing so, you really wish the D.A. would step up and and go on record with the truth: Georgia Tech’s case for being co-national champion in 1990 is spotty at best, and even though Colorado got a fifth down, they beat f-ing Notre Dame in…

Mandelbaum! Mandelbaum!

Overseas Elite sounds like what Trump will rename our special forces at some point.

Who dat?

The contrast between pro and college football coaches is striking. McVay can recall specific plays, but Art Briles can’t even remember the names of the players/sex offenders on his teams…

Looks like Papa John’s just found their new spokesman.

of course not, but suggesting he was a player when he was essentially a tackling dummy that got waived from being a tackling dummy is pretty misleading. 

Underwood was signed as an undrafted free agent by the San Diego Chargers. On August 30, 2014, he was waived. On September 3, 2014, Underwood was signed to the Philadelphia Eagles’ practice squad. On September 9, 2014, he was released from practice squad.^{[citation needed]}

It’s like he wrote his own death certificate. 

Why did you ever start?

I mean he got beat and made an obvious foul to prevent a shot. I think we’ve all played with the old guy in the gym who does this. It just so happens that this old guy in an NBA rookie. 

I do this too, but slightly differently: I find that doing lip to lip leads to risking opening the upside-down bottle a bit too often. Instead, I put the “opener” bottle at a 90 degree angle and use the top of the bottle (where the top curves down) to open the other at the lip. It is a bit more tricky at first but I…

“U.S. Open Will Change Its Seeding Protocol To Take Pregnancy Into Account"

Phil Mickelson approves!