I happen to love both sports, and life in these parts can be hectic and simple slow pace of baseball is enjoyable to me and millions of people in North American, Latin America, and Asia. The world need not move at warp speed, be timed and tilted to those with superior running and jumping ability. Also of you think…

He and A -Rod seem like the same person.

Please dont this, both games are wonderful and mean a lot so many. You don't need to pull down baseball to prop up soccer.

Nah he will stick with it, it will be in his blood. He'll go to Europe and make shit tons of money and them score buckets of goals for us in the WC. The Soccer America will be etched in concrete and the haters will evaporate.

Nonsense somewhere is this vast country is a star soccer player. Maybe he's a Mexican immigrant child or some athletic freak kid in a suburb watching. The numbers tell us so.

Stop being a dick, check the ratings for this World Cup people are into it. Hockey is not my thing, but don't throw cold water on their fans. Go away.

Honestly given this type of situation, it's totally plausible that she got caught cheating on her boyfriend, he got angry and attacked her and she made up a story about rape to mollify him.

Exactly and many of these women are white, and our culture still has it's hang ups about interracial sex. It's not lost on me these incidents one is at ND which is a conservative place culturally and another at Wisconsin which is the upper Midwest, a place without a ton of black folks. To ignore it as an a factor in…

A few things struck me while reading these stories and comments. I worry for both the accused and accuser. It should go without saying rape is a brutal criminal act and heinous crime and any woman or man that has suffered it you feel sympathy for. You hope for healing for all these women. With that said people here…

How does one make rape easier to prosecute while protecting the 5th and 6th amendment rights of those accused? Unless we're adopting the Chinese criminal justice system there will have to be a balance struck.

This is touches on something important in my mind. Numbers tell us that many D1 revenue sports players are black and I would suspect many of these accusers are white women. Given America's history with race and specifically the idea of black men raping white women, I think a bit of caution is advisable to prevent…

+1 useless fortifications on the Rhine.

One simple reform they could make is rotating the cup through the federations, and then only have members within the federation voting for the actual host.

We know Chuck Blazer is corrupt because the work of the same people that exposed Bin Hamman under the hotel door bribes. Plus its quite possible the Feds will deal with Blazer corruption. They do it too is not a valid position to me. It needs to be stopped period.

My thing with this is does developing soccer in poor countries mean for instance building a stadium on land owned by Jack Warner with FIFA cash. I think most right thinking people realize that in an federation with richer and poorer members that former will subsidize the latter, but it doesn't have to mean throwing…

I must say, I can't shed tears that the biggest flopper in the league was a victim of one.

Travis D'Araud of the Mets got concussed on similar back swing a few weeks ago. Its common in baseball with the longer swings with the focus on full extension and demise of the 2 handed follow through

I don't think the backswing was intentional. I think he didn't care though just like Donaldson didn't care that the tag irritated his surgically repaired knee. Backswings are part of the game. As per Abed you get one shot at the guy, shot 2 is gratuitous. Everyone here is acting stupid and will be soon devoid of…

It has become standard practice to suspend pitchers that get ejected for hitting batters. A warning really should have been issued after the first miss.

I think Pedro Guerro got a long suspension for doing this one time to David Cone of then of the Mets. Baseball doesn't look kindly on using the bat during incidents,