Kaka was crying during the trophy ceremony (as was Clint Dempsey picking up his Bronze Ball award).

In summary, the athletic director approached this as an emergency, looked at the puzzling evidence, followed the dots, solved the riddle and concluded this wasn’t a coincidence. Beautiful.

true true...mostly because she’s white but also mostly because of the other things.... :-)

I didn’t make the initial assertion, you did. I challenged it, provided ample argument and evidence in support of the challenge. I am not sure that I am the one dying on this hill.

Whether Italy went out in the group stage is immaterial and has little to do with the original argument about the caliber of player…

you wun the internet. Thenn you left.

Cool, dire Wolf.

You could gracefully concede the argument that Pulisic was facing guys who throughout their careers have been first team, first choice starters for club and country. Even assuming in arguendo that the three I cited are on their way out of Milan, each could easily start for a dozen other Serie A teams (underscoring the…

What the future portends, I have no idea. But that has little to do with your point, which was that Pulisic was not facing guys who are first choice backline players. And yet each of the guys I mentioned were when healthy first team guys this past season.

pretty sure that was Abate, their captain and starting right back. I see Palleta out there and Zapata..Those guys are all starters (20, 17, 29).

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I think a Bucks team with a healthy Khris Middleton and an emergent Giannis is best positioned to be the second best team in the East for the foreseeable future. After Middleton’s return in February, the Bucks went 20-12. During the same stretch, the Cavs were 15-17, the Wizards were 19-13. The Celts and Raptors were…

When Chile converted their first kick, the pressure was on Quaresma to convert. When he did not, Portugal was in a hole. The pressure on Moutinho after Aranguiz was even greater. In each instance, it would have been nice to have had Portugal’s best kicker in one of those early slots.

The difference being that while innings 6-9 are a certainty where as has been previously pointed out, the 4th and 5th PK slots are not.

And the reason he did is because he famously was slated for 5th at the 2012 Euros against Spain and never got the chance. This gave rise to the original critique.

Actually, in the post to which I was responding, you used no such qualifier. In that post you said that the evidence the state produced (testimonial evidence) was in your opinion not really evidence at all. And it was that post that was incorrect. You may have subsequently updated or clarified elsewhere. But I cannot…

That is not really the story with Eddie. Eddie refused to portray Cosby in a sketch well in advance of the show. He wasn’t upset about the show taking shots at Cosby. In fact, Eddie himself took shots at Cosby when he received the Mark Twain award back in the fall of 2015.  

witness testimony is evidence. A juror can decide what weight to give it. But it is most certainly evidence. And there are not gradations of the different types of evidence such as “hard evidence” (or whatever you mean by that) or testimonial evidence. In other words, circumstantial evidence isn’t necessarily of…

What you are fairly questioning is her understanding of the minutiae of South Asian geography and culture. However, I am not sure that it is fair to question her understanding of race, particularly as a black woman in the U.S. Her essay is primarily focused on the experiences of another black woman (with an Indian…

Is it possible that there was a bomb planted by a terrorist on an unidentified part of Chicago and the terrorist had ordered this guy to make absurdly racists remarks in a public place? That’s what I am going with.

I had a dental appointment!!!