Ted Knight. He’s no slouch himself!

He was the batter.

There seems to be a very well-established range of public sector workers who can be used as counterpoints to anything right-wing people don’t like. Anything to do with flags, anthems, symbols of nationality: the military. In the UK, anything to do with public spending on remotely nonessential items (civic art, say, or…

I’m confused as to why not standing for the anthem is construed specifically as a sleight on the military. What about our nation’s dedicated public sector educators, or indeed the hard working folks at the IRS? Aren’t they just as entitled to be offended?

It’s not like the guy could get much more pune.

You jest, but in fact the pitch at ANZ Stadium, aka the 2000 Olympic stadium, aka a godawful soulless suburban wasteland, is surprisingly poor. So enjoy that!

Maybe a nearly as good college has offered him more money.

Oh my God, they’re Kilkenny.

I wish I could clock off after 8 seconds of work because I need to conserve energy for a second 10 second spell of work slightly later on. Living the fucking dream, man.

If you’re a born and bred Liverpudlian or Leodensian I apologise. But non-UK football fans “hating” United is one of the lamest tropes in modern sport.

This whole “so long and thanks for all the fish” thing seems like an epic dummy spit. Was there any discussion of being a bit more mature about it? (Genuine question: love your work etc).

Classic English football fan at the end there. The whole story is a bit of a laugh - small time outfit gets caught out being small time - but Mr More Important Than Life and Death has to build it up like it’s the Night of the Long Knives. “I’d have to laugh or I’d cry”. Whatever, mate. “I have to laugh because it’s…

After Phelps won his eight golds, I looked up the Olympic schedule to see how a hypothetical mega sprinter could equal or beat the haul (golds in 100m, 200m, 400m, 4x100m, 4x400m, 110m hurdles, long jump and... er, there is no eigth option). Anyway, it was literally impossible: the semi-finals of one of the sprints…

Because France, basically. They are so laissez faire they have more or less adopted the term into their own language.

That’s disgusting alright.

I suspect he’ll have the benefit of being remembered in that bracket. In future when people mention Federer, Nadal and Djokovic they will always say “and how many majors would Murray have won if it wasn’t for those three?” Arguably a better legacy than that of, say, Lleyton Hewitt, who scooped up a handful of majors…

Unlikely. He doesn’t look like a paedophile and Welshmen prefer sheep to goats anyway.

And Nate Myles was involved.

That really means 28-0, right? Sorry, I’ve been asleep since last November.

You should look at ESPN now and again. There was a good story the other day about how the Cardinals starters still give interviews after games even when they've been knocked around. Key info on Losing The Right Way I'm sure you'll agree.