Screw Dan Snyder and all that, but if someone could explain to me why they’re in the wrong here I’d appreciate it. The player was paid money he wasn’t owed, the team agreed he only had to pay half of it back, and then he didn’t.

This is the same club where Jahlil Okafor had a gun pulled on him

He’s talking about international movie sales, not the domestic Asian population.

Wait a minute. Bill Maher may’ve been crass (as usual) but he is not exactly wrong.

I know it’s uncomfortable, but Bill Maher is at least partially right.

Maher is right you know

Imagine if this happened 4 years ago, or 10 years ago, or 20 years ago. If Iran caught one of our boats in their waters before the Iran deal, our soldiers would be imprisoned for months. They’d probably get out eventually, but it would take a big diplomatic trade of Iranian prisoners/weapons cash, or a full-on Argo…

Somebody please explain how you can pay players based on revenues they earn the school, and still comply with Title IX. The whole point of the equal scholarships provision in Title IX is to give (non-revenue generating) women the same college athletic opportunities as men. If you don’t want to take that away, you…

I work for the IT department at my high school, and as part of our tech program every student gets a MacBook air which they buy over their four years.

I hate to come to Belichick’s defense, but everyone pays payroll taxes (social security + medicare), so he actually would have lost around $3 of every $25 in taxes.

That’s the marginal tax rate paid on income above, in the 1940s, $200,000.