Everything about this is wrong, but the NFL has to change its CBA. And ina league with such short careers, the “I got mine, Jack” mentality tends to win out. Until veteran players are willing to advocate for the rookie contract, this is going to be a power-play that the owners control. I’d love to hear how veteran and…

Are you honestly so historically ignorant that you don’t recognize that the consequences of fighting now are so much worse than they were prior to the Malice in the Palace that discussing the differences between then and now is absurd in that context? Yes, guys who know there are serious consequences to fighting fight…

If no one fucks with you, you don’t have to go. Look at Draymond. Look at Lambeer. Tell me you think Lambeer wins that fight. You wanna talk about Mahorn? Fine. But fucking Lambeer? Did he EVER win a fight that he started?

Hopefully they won’t actually go to war? Certainly the vast majority of graduates of our Service Academies never see combat.

Jesus, dude, you are delusional — Draymond would have beaten the fucking brakes off of Lambeer at any point in Lambeer’s career. 

Same thing with the NCAA compliance test that any coach has to pass before they can recruit. My university had coaches fail that test, which meant they were among the dumbest people imaginable at a school with few admissions standards.

The United States is just fucking exhausting sometimes. Just imagine how many stories like this, and worse, there are that will never be exposed, cases that will never be re-tried, and where the desperation of the actual victim of the system (Meek Mill in this case) will never be able to get out of the spiral. How…

Damn.

Maybe. But I prefer to think of bad writerering as an evergreen.

This is a really useful example of how water-carrying sportswriters making terrible analogies is nothing new. What in the fuck does that even mean?

It’s times like these when I am happy to be out of the country paying attention to the rest of the world’s sports rather than our own. Not in some hipster way, but simply because the ongoing Rugby Championship and the beginning of The Ashes is far more compelling than trade deadline nonsense (or transfer windows for…

Football’s coming and its window of relevance is closing?

That’s so great! One time Rice snapped his bat on a check swing, which has that Pal Bunyan air to it. He also once hit a ball so hard Don Zimmer claimed it caused him to swallow his chew. I know all of the arguments against Rice being in the Hall, but your first childhood sporting hero makes you immune to things like…

I feel as if my indie rock credentials are impeccable and I still find Rainbow Connection to be perfect. It reminds me of being 10 and it still kind of makes me weep a bit.

So I am a Jim Rice lifer. First athlete I ever worshiped. White kid from New Hampshire, never even realized the racial component, though I became a civil rights and anti-apartheid historian. And obviously I loved Yaz and Evans and Lynn and Fisk (who allegedly hit the longest home run ever in my home town in high…

No, I certainly agree and don’t want “But Herold Baines” is in to be the new rallying cry for good but not really HoF guys (and I am also of the belief that frankly a more inclusive Hall is better than a more exclusive one) but I also think that Evans deserves to be in there on his own merits. Bobby Grich too, Lou…

I 100% believe Dewey belongs in the Hall of Fame. Certainly in a post Harold Fucking Baines induction he belongs post-haste.

I do football radio color for the DII university where I am a professor. I fear that you may be right.

All of this serves as a reminder that while the money figures here seem huge to average Joe, Kuper and Szymanski were right in “Soccernomics” about how even the biggest sports teams in the world are actually really, really small businesses. I think the comparison they made is that Man United’s annual surplus amounts…

No. They didn’t lose money “going woke.” They lost viewers at the same rate virtually every other network lost viewers, which was for reasons connected to things like cord cutting, streaming, and the like. No matter how much you fuck-knuckles try to spin this narrative about how politics killed ESPN it just isn’t…