Ah, see, I was going to guess he was milking the clock for overtime.

“Nation that hasn’t won jack since 1966 wonders what it’s like”

By the way, Patrick, the piece itself is wonderful, and should probably be required reading at drivers’ ed.

I’ve been a commuting cyclist in Chicago for over a decade. I’ve been hit a few times and had 2-3x as many close calls. I pass ghost bikes (white-painted memorials for cyclists murdered on the city’s streets) daily and it never gets any less haunting. What makes me ache even more about every preventable death…

[Citation Needed]

He looks like if Zuck did the 10,000 hours Malcolm Gladwell thing but for watching Fight Club.

1. Take away their weapons.

This would really piss off their fanbase:

I can boil down my own distaste for the Rockets’ brand of ball to this: Basketball, from a fan’s perspective, should be entertaining. And I, personally, do not find the Rockets, and Harden’s game specifically, entertaining at all. 

If you’re the USA, though, you shouldn’t have to worry about extra time against Spain. France? Sure. Spain? Put in your best players and get yourself a two-goal lead to put the match out of reach. Ellis was coaching to not-lose this game rather than coaching to win.

Yep, there was an IFK levied against Canada when they were playing the USA in the 2012 Olympics, for the same thing. The commentators noted the ref could give the keeper a yellow for timewasting or give the free-kick, and she opted for the latter. It led to a questionable handball call and a penalty for the USA in a…

Each of the dudes scoring here becomes the easiest episode of Remembering Some Guys.

The argument is “We don’t like VAR because it takes too long, and therefore it matters more than getting the call right, especially by small margins.” It’s a bad argument (one of the more inexplicable hills-to-die-on that Deadspin resides on, in my estimation), but if you assume it’s correct, the rest of the above…

This was just marvelous. Thank you.

celebration evening?

So I guess for S Sport, it’s less of an “Enes Kanter” situation and more of an “Enes Won’ter” situation.

Get yourself an enemy, and then throw the ball extremely hard in his direction.

You missed all the 2-liter bottles of Coke.

Considering the people that run the league can’t recognize a sucker punch to the back of the head from a hole in the ground, I’m not holding my breath on this one, either.

No, this is what it sounds like: