Yeah, still, the sucka was simple and plain. Mothafuck him (and John Wayne.)

Yes, I realize that quite well. I spend a lot of time in Africa and follow qualifying closely. And yes, 5/11 is better than 4/16 but both numbers are so small that drawing any conclusions about the quality of the confederations from those numbers is absurd. Africa has a good twelve or fifteen countries better than the…

Yeah, no. CAF is deeper, CAF is more competitive, CAF sends more players to the great leagues in Europe. Yes, CONCACAF has had one more team go one round deeper in the World Cup — hardly a statistically significant assertion. CONCACAF is nowhere near as deep or talented as CAF and it’s silly to pretend otherwise.…

Look, it’s going to be easy to hand-wring over this, but the NCAA should have fuck-all to do with the academic side of a campus. As soon as they can impose their will that way, we have reached a point where the athletics tail is irredeemably wagging the academic dog (and yes, I know in some institutions that wagging…

Well, at least we know Portnoy’s complaint ...

There should be an “and replaced him with” in there somewhere.

Good thing we fired a guy who at least had a vision for US soccer with status quo Fred Flintstone.

Yep. When I’m teaching suffrage and I mention Wyoming as a voting rights pioneer my students are lke “whaaaaaaaaaaaaa?”

Actually not true. Lots of states, especially out west, allowed women to vote as far back as the 19th century.

It’s just become such a cliche independent of the Twain quotation. But no harm, no jury!

Can we also acknowledge that her comments are in response to Jerry Jones’ words and potential actions? She is not pulling this out of nowhere. She is providing context and possible responses — I am assuming that when half the NFL crew supports the Double J’s right to do what he is doing they too will be punished? In…

Yeah, I would imagine that there are wildly varying conditions. In ym district (but at every level of the court system) you can be excluded for a very small number of circumstances, and if you fit one of those categories you go speak with the judge. In any case, I think we can be clear that while one may be able to…

When do you get to say either of those things, though? The experiences I have been through have never allowed an “I have a bad back” moment. And sure, if you know a victim of the crime you are being asked to sit on a jury for, I guess that might help if the lawyers ask that in their voir dire process, but there isn’t…

You know, people always say this, but in the overwhelming majority of cases geting out of jury duty simply isn’t that easy. Now, yes, you could lie — committing perjury in a courtroom setting — but even that isn’t as easy as it seems to avoid any jury duty at all. For example, in most courts they have a basic and…

And I am willing to bet that any player who contsests this is going to have a whole lot of ground to stand on. There certainly is no “moral” component to this issue that favors Jones. Furthermore, “image” is surely one of those things that would be part of litigation. I hope a player challenges this.

Yeah, except that the “boss” does not have unlimited power in this scenario. He’s going to simply bench guys? Can he do that, given that there is an actual contract with the NFLPA? If he chooses to sit someone my guess is he would lose his ass in arbitration. And if he decides to release them, well, thank you for the…

Heh. You said “package.”

Seems to me like it’s clear that everybody wants some. (Yes, Dave, you want some too.)

You are my new favorite person on the internet and I want to be friends.

Doesn’t make him Jesus.