I had illusions about walking on to my SEC college baseball team until I played summer ball with a bunch of guys who played for colleges I’d never heard of, and they were all on another whole plane from me.  And that was that.

That’s why I always laugh when people drop those hypothetical questions about being able to score on an NBA player or get a hit off a major league pitcher. They always seem to forget that those are the top 1% of the D-1 college players, who are the top 1% of the high school stars, who are the top 1% of the high school…

Yeah and that’s good for you, I don’t have a problem with healthy people that are still overweight, being active is very important. But the author is comparing two extremes. 300 lbs is not healthy no matter how you slice it and using some obsessive gym/diet guy as a foil for being obese is disingenuous at best. You…

Is there ANY way of drawing a cartoon depicting the relationship between the US and Israel that wouldn’t come out as looking anti-Semitic?

CR went to La Liga and outscored Messi, 450 goals in 438 games. Direct league comparisons are the best to make. Unless Messi moves to the EPL, this is the only direct comparison we will be getting. We’re all forgetting CR started as a winger and only moved closer to goal in the last few years at Madrid.

I am fully in the club of “Israel doesn’t have a right to exist” It was a nation created by the UN for a religious sect with no modern ties to the area, that forcibly displaced those already living in the area. Any people and nation would take issue with this.

THIS!!! Jared compromised by so many, especially our “friends.”  You know for damn well he’s peddling his influence as a way to cash out and Israel, among other parties, are very willing to pay to play.  

counterpoint - this glass-eyed lizard bitch is a union-busting monster whose rapacious, vicious, unceasing pursuit of wealth has made him undeserved overseer of enough money to provide a good living to the inhabitants of several entire countries. fuck him, fuck his murder-factory company, and fuck anything he ever…

Israel has actually had much more influence in our politics and society than Russia ever has, but Dems (and Republicans) only get concerned when Russia does.

Not to mention that hundreds if not thousands of police departments often train with Israeli police to use their profiling tactics. It’s long been a right-wing talking point:

I’m pretty sure that I’ve read this same article on Deadspin 3x already since the start of the season. I expect it at least twice more: after he makes the All-Star game and after he wins 6th man of the year.

Man....the Derrick Rose accusations feel like swinging too far the other way. He was never charged criminally and found not liable in a civil trial. It’s not like OJ, where there was a bunch of clear evidence and he was eventually found liable. I work as a Public Defender in Florida and I’m often frustrated with how…

Rose can’t win he settles he is guilty and if he takes it to court and wins in a manner that shows the other side had no evidence as lies a lot he is still guilty.   

This was a civil suit, not a criminal trial. Rose could have paid her off and had the whole thing going away, but instead chose to go through with an embarrassing trial where he came off looking like an idiot. And what did he get out of it?

Damn. This is one of the biggest hatchet jobs that I have ever seen. He steal yo girl or something? Wow. 

Rose is also “coming back” from being credibly accused of gang rape in 2015.

At what point would Rose get the benefit of the doubt in regards to the rape allegation? I was uninformed (and forgot) the details of the accusation until I clicked back to the linked articles, but it seems like Rose was never criminally charged and found not liable in the civil suit, and that a panel of 3 judges…

How is the rape charge “credible” when there was no criminal trial and the result of the civil trial was that he was not liable.

Notice how quiet this place was regarding Rose until something positive, the 50 point game, happened? 

Because in this case that is exactly what it is. He was found not liable by a jury of his “peers” in this instance. The bar for not liable is lower than not-guilty so it’s a safe assumption that he is also not guilty of the sexual assault charge. So he is having to overcome having someone try and ruin his life for…