No. They also get tested less for doping.

This, 1000x this. The tall (though obviously very skinny) Kenyans used to intentionally surround and block the very short Haile Gebrselassie midway through track races. Throwing elbows, trapping him, trying to impede him so one of their teammates could get enough of a lead to beat him. They even did this in the…

That’s happened before, and it wasn’t.

Yeah, but Tough Mudder isn’t a race. They don’t even time them. People even complained enough that they had to change their slogan from being “world’s toughest race” to “world’s toughtest running event.”

I’ve always thought that full-contact games of Capture the Flag would be great at the professional, NCAA, and even HS levels. Do it on a large field with obstacles and obstructions with big cameras overhead for both spectators and refs.

Maybe. It depends. I’ll use the Pats almost undefeated season again. Do we rate 2007 as a down year for the quality of the teams in the NFL? If so, I don’t hear anyone talking about that when the subject of the 2007 Pats comes up. I would argue instead that the quality of the competition only comes into question when…

The Pats going 19-0 could still have involved a number of highly exciting games due to parity of the competition. Being the best and not making any mistakes within a given period of time is what makes it exciting. But if the Patriots went 19-0 for 2, 3, or 4 consecutive seasons and won all their games up to and…

“the professor who every year dates a first-year grad student and manages to send her reputation, not his, into the mud.”

Nobody remembers who won NCAA football titles except people who went to big football schools. Everyone remembers a good blindering scandal.

Looking through the comments section here, it seems like a huge part of the problem is not the system, but people generally being shitty to each other, which strikes me as a way easier fix than overhauling a system that doens’t sound like it’s too effective to begin with anyway.

“What Brady (and by proxy the Patriots org) did impacted the game, and thus the most severe punishment should be levied against them.”

That’s the same supplement that defending women’s world champion 1500m runner Abeba Aregawi just got pegged for, as well as a handful of top marathoners. All took it legally before 2016, all got pegged for continuing to do so.

Maybe if women didn’t make it such a habit of laughing at men, they wouldn’t get killed so much.

“Both of them were unremarkable, unless you want to hear about young conservatives groping each other in a crowded bar, which you probably don’t.”

Can’t speak for all of those, but Buffalo and Pittsburgh are slowly pulling themselves out of their economic misery, and are increasingly nice places to live (though in both cases the slummiest of the slums are still pretty rough).