The next batch of State Farm Commercials are gonna be wild 

The tendon is often replaced with one from a cadaver. Which means Quinn Cook might miss next season too.

One thing they ought to do is stop fucking worrying about recreating the situation from last year. They’ve managed to make this A Thing that we’re all going to have to deal with for years.

Actually I think the first rule of soccer is that you aren’t supposed to use your hands

Bad take. Every goal you score against Thailand breaks a tie against Sweden, who will play for a draw and has a good chance of getting it. Getting an insurmountable goal differential forces Sweden out of their shell. 

I mean, it’s not like the Thai women’s national football team ever humiliated an opponent by 13 goals to nil. Oh wait—they did? Against Indonesia? On May 27, 2018? In a friendly?

1) Having been on the wrong end of some really bad soccer blowouts, it’s more insulting when the other team starts clowning around and and not trying. Going easy is much more disrespectful to the game and to your opponent.

If you let up you’re denying those players and subs the experience that comes with anrare opportunity to play the best team in the world. They can always learn a lot from those 90 mins. Letting up would be unsportsmanlike and bad for the game.

When Sweden puts 8 past Thailand, the US will be glad they scored 13. 

According to multiple commentators, it apparently shows more respect to the losing team for the winning team to keep playing at their fullest until the end of the match. I guess noticeably pulling back can be a form of insult. Plus there’s the whole goal differential thing as previously mentioned.

Once more for the criminally angery sportsmanship folks: there is goal differential in play. This is the highest tournament at the highest level for women’s soccer. Score as much as possible, advance, win. This isn’t for warm fuzzies this is for all the marbles and 13-0 means USWNT doesn’t have to sweat a tie breaker…

It’s not Haisley writing here.

What are they supposed to do, dribble it around in their end? Dunno about you, but I’d walk right over and punch someone in the mouth for that. It’s not like a big college football program whipping a little one and having the option to play the roughly 300-ish walk ons on the sideline who haven’t been in a game since…

Fucking Burneko even name dropped Achilles in the article. He’s been the oracle all this time. 

Yeah, it’s obviously Burneko’s fault.

My thoughts exactly. Where is Burneko’s mea culpa?

Co-sign! How dare you throw “the media” under the bus and, in avoiding the sword yourselves, imply that Myers fell on the sword as a passive-aggressive gesture of self preservation. Bad day for Deadspin.

Counterpoint:

“making a dramatic comeback in his team’s biggest game of the season, only to see that comeback lead to the worst possible result.”

Another possible thought: The Warriors knew the risk. Durant knew the risk. He wanted to play, even knowing this could result, with the understanding that he had the player option to fall back on, should the worst result.