I had a great talk with a couple of refs, one of whom had actually been a player a few years ago. It sounds like UEFA helps fly in refs (12 from other countries, 12 local) and a small stipend is paid, although the one ref gives that back.

Clearly the referee training hasn’t been working, so they have to do something. Every weekend this past few weeks there have been shit calls that have had the potential to affect the outcome of a game. Time to own up to the fact that players are faster and play smarter (certain exceptions apply); just like in the NHL,…

I’m in Mexico City right now and was still trying to convince my wife this would be a good idea and then this happened.

I was thinking a I read this that the best response to him now would be “We will never talk about you again when you finally die” but you fucked me over with your cogent and reasoned argument in the second-last paragraph, and now I feel even more depressed.

Well goddamn. Now I stand and applaud because this is extravagant and trollerific. I have a friend who went through a similar theft of her dad’s estate by siblings, and I wish her father had given her even a modicum of the thought your granFanda was capable of.

This isn’t so much extravagant as it is perfect.

Welcome, Interstate Dickheads.

I recall the talk about why NBC stuck for so long with Homicide: Life on the Street for so long was that they owned it, were not sharing it with another production house. I mean, we’ve seen evidence for the lack of trust in quality program for many decades now, so it’s either this or an Act of God.

Naw. Brett Kavanaugh.

Those aren’t USA-specific statistics, sadly.

Your* wunna them snowflake libs who don’t like blackface, aintcha?

It’s always nice to see an athlete with power step up and call bullshit. Even better here because I’m sure there are a lot of gymnasts who agree but who need the funding the organization provides.

You and me, man, still cheering for a team already down the drain only two games in. I don’t know why I even bother.

After my divorce I worked as a manager in a small store with 3 women working for me. We had a female customer who seemed to hit it off with me, and eventually we agreed we would go out. She knew I had given up the car in the divorce and hadn’t replaced it, so she agreed to pick me up. We went to a local pool hall,…

And soon I’ll be taking my phone on vacation out of Canada with me and if I want to use it I’ll be even further from that utopia.

Exactly. That this became an issue the CRTC was willing to deal with after the web made the ads impossible to miss is Peak Bureaucracy.

And then smile with it between your lips. Yeah. that would be hard to pass up.

You’ve brought back a memory of when I was about 6 or 7, my parents had friends whose son (younger than I) had one real eye, one glass eye. I remember he popped it out and put it in his mouth. Pretty sure his parents scolded him and my little sister had a conniption.

It’s valuable if the other team isn’t prepared for it, but because it’s becoming more common (and tends to be used by weaker teams who have trouble working the ball into the area the conventional way), most know what to do. Go look up Rory Delap, an otherwise unremarkable player who wreaked havoc with his throws for a…

Hell, Manitoba’s premier doesn’t want to move to Canada, either. Which may be why he spends so much of the year in Costa Rica.