I can confirm, with bears. The way people will approach bears to take pictures, stop their vehicle dead in its tracks on the highway and leap out, causing traffic bottlenecks, drawing out others with their cameras, ... If a massive chain-reaction motor-vehicle collision doesn’t kill them, you almost root that the bear…

Rereading my original post, I realize now that I didn’t make this clear, that he was alive but roasted for 4-6 hours or whatever, before the restaurant re-opened the next day. Stuck where he was, his cries for help were directed by the hood vent upwards, towards the sky, in the middle of the night, and no one heard…

Yeah, good to know. I remember the spate of athletes buying 308GTB’s and GTS’s because of “Magnum PI”, and the know-it-alls on ‘Car and Driver’ and ‘Road & Track’ losing their minds about it, telling them to buy Testarossas, or any V-12 Ferrari really, they’d keep their value much better was the argument, whereas the…

Yep, the way I remember the story, he was rescued but would lose his legs, they were, ahem, not salvageable.  I don’t think I ever read a follow-up on the story, would love to find out more.

Yep, the way I remember the story, he was rescued but would lose his legs, they were, ahem, not salvageable.  I don’t think I ever read a follow-up on the story, would love to find out more.

Lots of contrarians will leap to Phil’s defence, but truly, based on the rep he had before his draft year, all the reports and rumours he had to answer for at the 2006 Draft Combine, Phil Kessel is who we thought he was.

Mariah Carey, the whole deal, is incomprehensible to me.  What’s even more baffling is a guy liking that whole deal.

If there’s a story about Raider fans dummying an opponents’ fan in the washroom, it’s more topical than if it happens elsewhere. If the Chargers have a player staying out of camp on their hands or demanding a trade because they’re nickle and diming him, it’s more topical. If the Cowboys make a player move or draft…

So I guess we agree?  

Any athlete who’s earned $100M over his career received, at very worst, $50M after tax and agent and representation fees and other costs.

Restaurant experts, weigh in here please, but I believe it was a question of a couple of burners left on, a few pilot lights, something like that.

Asked and answered.  This article would not have been penned if he’d been released when he shot his mouth off, if that was the reason.

Yep.  Was it in ‘The Wealthy Barber’, that rule about if you want to be rich, stay married?

Agreed that Ferraris can be great investments, but they’re more elaborate, there’s more risk that things go sideways. Athletes who go broke may suffer the beginnings of dementia, may not mind their p’s and q’s, so the luxury cars aren’t maintained and protected in a safe location like Jay Leno’s warehouse, they’re…

Yeah, this is ground that’s been covered, but without being a sophisticated investor or money manager, you just pay your taxes, then park your money in plain-jane investments, buy your mom a house and a few more besides, and you’re good to go.

Good to know.  I’ll wait for the Weird Al remix.

“Hello, dad, I’m in jail

The good thing is that, as good a job as Drew does in pointing out the follies and ineptitude of each franchise, nobody knows the flaws and foibles more intimately, and can relate them more emotionally than wounded, damaged fans.

Tell us about the Tim Rattay years!

My buddy/nemesis in fantasy football is a Dolphins fan, and that exact Ryan Tannehill joke, in all its glorious permutations, was my go-to. Sure, it was trite and repetitive, but it always landed, even that game when the ‘Fins beat the Chargers after, guess what, the Chargers grabbed the lead and seemed to be in…