The only strong take here is from you, barely armchair soccer fan who is only involved in the sport if it feeds into your white-guilt agenda.

Sportswear-for-popcorn is also Nike's most typical contract.

No no no! You use the siege mentality to counter bad journalism, not the other way round!

That's cause it's the winter there...

Man, the Algerians are making the Koreans look like the Wretched of the Earth.

Ask and ye shall receive.

Just because they're efficient with ball movement doesn't mean it isn't dull to watch. The fact that you can't comprehend that makes you ant Italian fan.

"There will be plenty of dancing in Costa Rica tonight. It'll be done by a lot young nubile women in tight tops and short skirts. If they're not wearing skirts their shorts are going to be really tight, you know, so tight that you don't have to imagine very much. [breathing quickens] Okay, okay. [thinks of baseball]…

Who's Kenny Johnson?

I mean...I can think of many situations in life where doing something that isn't fundamentally wrong in an in-your-face kind of way can turn you into a jackass. Why is this different?

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By my math, he must have scored at least 63 free-throws. Warriors must have been using a Hack-A-Gov strategy. Aaaaand the SWAT team are already here.

How insecure you must be.

[reads headline]

He's on loan from Arsenal, you say?

UEFA: [hands out four-match ban]

More Than A Club (Will Be Administered By the Mafia For This)

Bloody fans of the Royals. They've never been worried about a plot to kill.

Why of course you have Deadspin's blessing to slander this stranger, guy!

Man, having your father defend you all the time is pretty embarrassing. Too bad he doesn't have a BIG BROTHER to do that.