I think I said this in the thread last night, but I feel pretty confident predicting Tiafoe will win a grand slam or two.

On his day, he can. The problem is he still does a lot inconsistently, and it doesn’t help how often he hits off his back foot. His little wind-up forehand isn’t exactly made for accuracy either.

I saw a tweet yesterday by some credulous dumbass that, more or less, went “To give McGregor no chance is absurd. Floyd has never fought anyone with his precision and power...”

Appreciate the gesture, but I just tried this line of argument with my GOP dad just a couple weeks ago. Dad! I argued, how can this disparity between black and white in America just be some accident to you? We had slavery, which we made no effort to atone for. Then we had Jim Crow, which we made no effort to atone…

On the one hand, yes, there is only one side here, as Joe Biden tweeted yesterday.

No one’s supporting Mayweather on this site. They literally ran a legendary like 10,000 word piece on what a genuinely irredeemable piece of shit he is once.

Someone needs to put an actual check on Billy because this shit is getting embarrassing.

Billy’s throwing around terrorism here, not understanding that there are, sure, elements of the Qatari royal family and government that fund extremists involved in what we might understand to be “traditional” death-to-the-West terrorism, but that most of what they do is incredibly grey geopolitical shit like…

That’s how it works in cricket, for what it’s worth.

This is also a very underrated point! Barring a radical restructuring of international club competition, MLS clubs are permanently barred from the Champions League.

Two separate things.

I’m kinda surprised you’re missing his intention here. The point is not to pressure the Cavs into not trading Kyrie. The point is to make clear the Cavs don’t have the option of picking Kyrie over LeBron.

I love Christian Pulisic and am totally excited by the possibility of him being a legit world star and leading the US national team, but uh, yeah, he’s a distinct level below Dembele.

There’s also horse racing. He’s a big player in the Dubai horse racing scene and associates with the ruling Al Maktoum family. One of those associations that serves the handy purpose of bolstering his prestige and solidifying his legitimacy as a quasi-independent head of state.

Yeah this dynamic is almost exclusive to the (American) Northeast. I’ve lived in a lot of markets - I grew up in California, live in the South, and spent lots of time in the North - and this pro-wrestling-brain-decay radio Samer is talking about is a Philly-Boston-New York, maybe (maybe) DC thing.

From up there on your high horse, it might be worth remembering that you can’t have a purge before the revolution. The least people of your ilk could do is try to win the center-left (which is, to be clear, a coalition of real actual people and not just a few establishment ghouls in DC cooking up numbers) instead of…

This take is trying too hard, and Garbine is better than Venus anyway. There was nothing shocking about any of this, and there’s nothing wrong with praising Venus simply for getting as far as she did given the realities of age and health and how they affect sports performance. Jesus.

Hey look, he could be an all-star shooting guard. With his vision and his shooting and his transition game he could be among the few best in the NBA in time.

He can’t dribble. I don’t know why people keep thinking you can have a point guard who can’t break down a defense, but I guess they’re enamored by his passing creativity.

Agree his shot will be fine but his dribbling is, and always has been, godawful. He isn’t creating space in that clip, it’s being given to him. Look at the one ISO penetration he attempts (~:45), it’s average at best, and it ends with him running awkwardly into a big man help defender. The third highlight of the clip…