So....Goodell has to go, right? I don't see any way Rice can come back from this, and I think Goodell has put himself right in the same boat with Rice.

Anyone who would rate Kanye, Drake (lol) and Nicki Minaj (LOL) higher than Jay Z and NaS should be set on fire. Lil' Wayne higher than Eminem is also egregious. This was an exercise in stupidity.

I'm a huge Patriots fan, but readily admit we have terrible fans. Just read those fan emails! They perfectly demonstrated why our fan base is awful, only they did it in the most ironic way possible. It is a special kind of torture trying to read through that nonsense.

Just to be clear, I'm definitely NOT saying that Sam shouldn't be allowed to shower in the same manner as his teammates. I just think Lennay's point is fair and it is something that should be kept in mind. At the end of the day, its about prioritizing, and I think that having some teammates a little uncomfortable is…

My natural inclination is to side with Sam on all these matters. But trying to stick strictly to the underlying logic of these's arguments, I have to admit that Lennay's first paragraph makes a lot of sense to me, whereas I do not understand your rebuttal at all. Could you maybe draw your argument out a little more…

I disagree. Of the four major sports, basketball's crowd at games is the most "scene" oriented, and the sport is the most star-oriented. People in town to party would pre-game at NBA games, and I think an NBA team in Vegas would kill it. It would also probably eventually lead to the ruin of the league, but they would…

Huge Celtics fan here.

"Move" TE has been a need for the Patriots since Hernandez went to the clink, and Mankins is a quality player but was overpaid even when he was an All-Pro. As a slightly diminished player, it would have been crazy to pay a guard that much money.

Stanford is a better school and it is harder to get into for non-athletes. It is also at least as difficult to get football players into. If you think I have implied otherwise, I haven't.

I'd be lying if I said I knew the specifics of Maurice Stovall's particular situation, but I can tell you that I do think it speaks volumes that you have to go back over a decade to find someone to pin your argument to, and a significant portion of every SEC roster struggles to even speak comprehendable English. I'll…

I 100% agree with you that the "we only didn't land so-and-so because we couldn't get him into school" can be used as spin by the coaching staff, and certainly is on occasion. But you also see instances where kids that have tried really hard to get test scores up or get their GPA up so they can get in, fail, and end…

Yeah, that all sounds excellent. Except that it is straight-up incorrect. So while I do get your point, it is wrong.

I think our disagreement boils down to this:

Well, yes. There are definitely kids on the football team that wouldn't have gotten into ND without football. Probably close to 98% of them, if we're being honest. But that wasn't my point about admissions. My point is that, even acknowledging that they accept football players that wouldn't have gotten in with a blind…

I'm not trying to be coy, but your point escapes me.

I'm not sure what you mean, but he cheated and was suspended from school for a semester. I honestly don't know where you're coming from so I'm not going to respond with much more than that.

Lou Holtz was given some leeway with Tony Rice and some other members of those late-80s classes, and he won with it. He wasn't given as much before or after, and neither were other ND coaches. Your example actually helps prove the point, if given proper context.

I hear what you are saying, and I can't tell you anything about your school. I can tell you that your assumptions about Notre Dame are factually inaccurate. I don't think living in dorms with other students makes athletes smarter; it just speaks to how they are treated. That your school took a similar approach is a…

Drew, I love you. I do. And as a ND fan, I can still understand the disdain that the football program engenders. It is not unreasonable, and most sober Irish fans get that. There are plenty of things to hate about Notre Dame, and being hateable is part of the attraction in some perverse way.

I didn't read this, but I will. I just wanted to comment that I first heard of Munson when my H.S. social studies teacher (in RI) told us that he was a student at the University of Maryland when Munson's plane went down, and he and his friends ran around their dorm celebrating like the Sox had just won the world…