Not only lobbying, but there was a rumor that Brown left Cal off his ballot altogether so that the Golden Bears would drop in the poll component of the BCS (safely as I believe that ballot isn’t made public). That and the bullshit offensive PI call against Kansas helping Texas avoid and upset. Not enough karma to…

Loose tobacco and smokes are taxed differently so lots more people in Western Europe do RYO because it’s cheaper. In all probability that is just a hand rolled cigarette.

Steelers also hired a professor away from CMU to do analytics for them. I’m guessing that’s not unique, but at least the relevant parts of the organization seem to be listening and open to what he’s saying.

But now hasn’t scored in 15. He sucks.

I’m not even going to disagree with most of that. I’m just so over this whole MoTD-level punditry that says, “Yeah but... Gabriel should know better.”

You’re right. Kos was the actual victim my bad.

No, let’s. Saying Gabriel should know better is equivalent to saying that Costa gets to do the shit he does with relative immunity because it’s okay for the refs to be terrible at their job. Costa palmed Kos with both hands in the face then chest bumped him. That was after he had already taken a blatant dive trying to…

Mike Dean is a cunt.

Yes. So it’s not so much one a year as two a month.

Ha... figured that was coming. I hadn’t looked at a slash line of anyone in baseball since about July.

For reasons I can’t explain, I watch an inordinate amount of Rockies games on the MLB.tv package. The top of that lineup (Blackmon, LaMahieu, CarGo, Arenado) is as good as any in baseball (I say that without looking up any actual stats, but even without looking up stats, I’d wager that Arenado has had every bit of an…

Sort of. They blew a call in an Arsenal match either last season or the season before, but today, Sevilla put a PK right off the underside of the post. It bounced straight down and JUST stayed out. The extra official was right there and made the correct call. So, not pointless.

Fuck Skip Bayless; him and that blabbering Pez dispenser co-host of his. If you watch these slack-jawed troglodytes (even for the rubbernecking), you’re to blame they are still around. Once their ratings go to zero, they are relegated to the dustbin of irrelevancy.

Nice job leaving out the parts where he seems to be in favor of both paying the full cost of education (including living expenses) as well as allowing players to monetize their popularity in other ways (as long as it doesn’t necessitate University involvement).

A fun joke. Sort of like how listening to Denis Leary verbatim recite Bill Hicks material is a fun joke?

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