Yeah, that wasn’t very logical. It’s kinda like after one bad game they just got together among themselves and said “well, the months of planning and scouting and strategising means squat. Let’s abandon it all and fucking play it as we go”. Even though they would’ve lost regardless, at least stick to the bullshit you…

This. Other than a few sales in Iceland itself I doubt there’s any sales benefit by putting them in.

It’s less about last night and more about things like Team USA’s management scouting TB Lightning games and saying amongst themselves “Well obviously the guy we’re going to call up is Ryan Callahan. That midget skating circles around everybody on the ice isn’t what we’re looking for.

While I understand the sentiment, it’s worth remembering that while London and the UK as a whole were being bombed nightly the UK had already spent billions of today’s dollars fighting a war across the Channel against that same enemy and would spend billions more over the next few years to defeat that enemy.

Yes, and both are preventable. There is a reason we wear seat belts in cars and there is a reason we spend so much on law enforcement and anti-terrorism initiatives.

While his contract probably made any transfer next to impossible, I thought he was going to go out on loan somewhere for sure.

Subban was always a long shot - he was essentially furniture in Sochi.

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He would’ve eventually been scratched but it’s still perplexing as fuck that probably the second-most talented winger of American nationality wasn’t called.

Mackinnon would’ve been one of the lowest scorers on the team if he were called. It would’ve been pretty surprising.

Then Rose is getting bad legal advice.

I never said he didn’t lose endorsements, but some of them (like Coca-Cola) came back after the settlement and others filled the void. Kobe was just as successful from a marketing standpoint three years after the settlement as he was three years before.

Like Anchoweresque said, it’s anyone U23 from the continent.

Yeah, that really stopped him from making endorsement money since 2003.

Kobe settled, he survived.

For real. Why didn’t he just fucking settle? Shit’s gonna cost him way more in the long run by the looks of it.

Wait, did he take the job on Sept. 1? Because that would explain a lot.

Cup-tied. Would still leave them with Cavani for European games.

I can’t believe PSG saw this all pre-season and during the games in August and didn’t decide to bring in another striker. For a season that they’ve publicly said they expect to win the Champions League, that is leaving a lot to chance.