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Starter money is reserved for studs like Case Keenum and Ryan Tannehill.

“Funny — no one cared when he was on the Steelers!” Read more

Not the Antonio Brown come back story I expected.

Tobias Harris is good but “$180mil over five years” good? Are you kidding me? 

Fuuuuuuuuuuck UConn. It was their greed and lust for bigtime football that killed the OG Big East. They made their basketball fans watch games on TV against Tulane, Tulsa, and East Carolina instead of being able to make quick trips to Providence, St John’s, and ‘Nova to see their team in person against actual rivals… Read more

Fuck it, man. Fuck it good.

“I understand there’s a goal differential race in this tournament. I understand they’re nervous about drawing Sweden later in the tournament, but this was disgraceful from the United States. I would have hoped they would have won with humility and grace, but celebrating goals eight, nine, ten the way they were doing…

This dong was on the first pitch after the basketball game went to half-time. I flipped the channel to see if the baseball game was still going and this was what I saw.

That’s true.  Most other teams don’t have the best shooter on the planet and two other all-starts suiting up for them.

Predatory pricing has been legal forever, or at least as long as the government doesn’t give a shit who suffers when the worst types of greedhead capitalism runs amok.
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The dude sailing out of the picture after almost being elbowed by the ref is clearly the play of the day.

All I ask is that the Deadspin staff to refer to him as “Rob Lowe cosplayer Rob Pelinka” from now on.

Exactly, and many others that did trying to battle it out with the rich clubs. You don’t want to have Premier League or La Liga or Serie A sides with bad finances just because they got too much debt trying to compete. 

FFP was instituted to stop clubs like Atletico, Napoli, PSG, Chelsea, Benfica, Dortmund, Leeds, Fiorentina, Lazio, Roma, Parma etc. from going bankrupt, which all either did or nearly did. It has nothing to do with protecting “old-class rich clubs”.

So the rules are unfair, Man City still broke them by lying, forging documents and acting above the rules. I have no sympathy for them.

“The Sixers absolutely crapped themselves down the stretch and ended multiple clutch possessions without even getting a shot up.” Read more

The best part of this whole thing is how absolutely furious Skip Bayless is right now. 

Rooting for Man City and their ownership is like rooting for the Yankees if they were owned by Dick Cheney.  Amazing what dirty money can buy you.

Yea, those automated vehicles are so efficient, they need no maintenance. Even if they do, they will just tell you that 15 years from that point, they will have robots capable of doing all the maintenance, so just stick with us. 

“But they get the biggest crumbs!”