Surprising that a post with physics as its hooke gets so many stars.

Yeah, you’d have to assure your coaching staff financially, maybe grant extensions, to get their buy-in, but imagine the rot, the corruption of that team if the players sense the coaches are in on the losing-on-purpose scheme.  I think everyone understands a GM trading away useful vets out from under a coach, leaving…

We’re not sure if that did or didn’t happen.  The authorities report partial remains.

I’m not sure anyone will see this, but asking an honest question, what’s the value of those ponds near those homes? Are they artificial or reclaimed swamp; were they put there on purpose? Aren’t they pestilential mosquito breeding grounds? A home for alligators to lay in wait for neighbourhood pets?

We’re making light of this, of course, but the story does say ‘skeletal remains’, rather than ‘an entire preserved skeleton’. Probably a femur or tibia, a couple others to be found, but the delicate skull may not be there.

Yeah, Occam’s razor. He’d been drinking, drove home late at night, probably fell asleep and couldn’t get out of his vehicle when he hit the water, and drowned. The caveat “he wasn’t a heavy drinker” isn’t valid here, we’re not arguing whether he died of cirrhosis, but whether he had a few too many that night. I’m not…

I caught sight of that atrocity, a glimpse of it, wasn’t sure what I was seeing, a hat or whatever, for a half-second, and I suffered a spate of “I can’t even”, as the yoots say. Didn’t even bother to click and google and find out, didn’t want to have to muster up some outrage.

Carolina’s Norv Turner-led offense has some real bad ideas about how to pick up a few crucial inches of turf.

For some reason I can’t put my finger on, that description doesn’t quite fit him, I don’t think...

“Crisis of confidence!  OMAHA!  Crisis of confidence! Set! Hut!”

“Motion to amend: that we add in the phrase ‘captured on video such that Roger Goodell might be convinced thereof’, or suchlike.”

Let it be decreed that when a team sets out to ‘tank a season’ (a purely North American conceit with structures in place such as revenue-sharing and a universal draft in place), sets out to be intentionally bad to lose more games and ‘earn’ a higher draft placement, in the absence of other mechanisms such as loss of…

Yeah, I knew it was him the first time I saw the meme (GTFOH with Zach Galifianakis), I just didn’t remember him in that role or movie. Someone posted the trailer recently, and I think it looks familiar, maybe I saw it as a kid, or part of it at least on TV, it’s really vague. By now it might be the exposure to the…

Tua lacks the study habits, doesn’t have a motor, football men agree. He doesn’t eat tape, relies too much on his athleticism. Doesn’t go through his reads, he’s naturally inclined to pull the ball down and run.

I (...) have met (..) with a number of (...) Harvard student athletes (...and...) most of them have not been very bright.

Yeah, a tank season rolls off the tongue for fans, is reasonable for ownership and management, but for football players, with their short careers and limited opportunities to win a championship, that’s probably the worst sport to put yourself through the wringer for, subject yourself to the abuse and damage “for the…

Maybe I’m embarrassed that I don’t think I’ve ever watched “Jeremiah Johnson” before, or at least don’t remember it.

The Onion:

Yeah.  I lived through the Reagan era, and that’s when they raised the drinking age to 21 years old, and it’s saved entire generations from the evils of teen drinking.  And nobody dies in car crashes anymore, and Mothers Against Drunk Driving’s temperate rational approach...

Jeez, off the top of my head, “Three Days of the Condor”, “Butch Cassidy”, “The Sting”, “Waldo Pepper”, “The Natural”, ...