You are right. Oregon's ranking is strictly based on the Nicholls State win.

This a dumb Guinness record. It should be scarf length divide by marathon time to determine inches per minute or something. If Babcock just walked for 5 hours while Ms. Hewer actually ran it in 3 hours, of course his scarf is longer. We need a commissioner of this.

Gibson got WS MVP votes, base solely on one at-bat in the whole Series. Greatest. Baseball. Moment. Ever.

"Redskin" is inherently racist. The n-word is inherently racist. Use of the n-word by African-Americans is racist.

How many human beings, let alone Native Americans, have red colored skin? Other than me after I take my shirt off at the beach for more than 10 minutes? "Yellowskin" would be more accurate, if no less racist. "Redskin" as applied to Native Americans is equivalent to"slant-eyed" as applied to Asians: both are…

Magic is one of my all-time favorite players. He is also one of my all-time least favorite announcers/commentators/pundits. There is a skill to coaching that is entirely unrelated to the skill required to play; talking heads are far more similar to coaches than they are to players.

TBS used to own the Braves and loved to show fans doing the Tomahawk Chop and Chief Noc-a-homa dance around his teepee after a Braves home run. Racism is hilarious!

In the same way that the thought of whether or not African-Americans would be offended never crossed the mind of Southern schools that serve fried chicken and watermelon on Martin Luther King's Birthday.

But I think Murphy's point is generally correct: what works at the college level generally won't at the pro level. College football has players who are effectively trapped; calling them "slaves" overstates the issue and demeans the history of actual slavery, but it is accurate to the extent it implies their football…

What opr says below is correct: rugby relies upon proper tackling technique because it fucking hurts to tackle someone like they do in the NFL without pads. Pads give the pursuer a big advantage because he can gamble and throw his body at the runner and he's protected from the impact by his pads (and that physics…

If we in America are serious about the concussion issue (spoiler alert: we're not), we make football more like rugby: no pads, no helmets. If this same level of hit had occurred in American football, the runner would be out of the game and likely out for a few games with concussion-symptoms, because the defender…

God bless Sepp Blatter.

Why do we care about Chris Broussard's opinions on anything except basketball? Being an ignorant, homophobic blowhard doesn't mean he can't be a good basketball reporter. Not being a good basketball reporter makes Chris Broussard not a good basketball reporter.

I believe even the "close-in-age exemptions" have clearly defined age-limits. My point is that the statutory rape laws are not predicated on some commonly-accepted standard of when a "girl" becomes a "woman" or a "boy" becomes a "man". Instead, they are like a sexual DMZ: beyond this line, your safety cannot be…

I'm not the best person to answer for feminists, but I think you are mixing legal and societal definitions. The law establishes bright-line age cut-offs for purposes of defining statutory rape. If person A is on the "over" side of the line by a day and person B is on the "under" side by a day, person A commits…

Here's the highlights of the Brown's drafts: Kamerion Wimbley was great on American Ninja Warrior and Barkevious Mingo has the best name in NFL history. On the field football highlights, not so much.

There was an SI endpiece a few years back that I swore was written by Reilly, but it may have been someone else (Steve Rushin?). It pointed out the ridiculousness of the arguments supporting maintaining Native American stereotypes as mascots by showing what it would look like if teams used Jewish or African-American…

I can't support your suggestion that diving makes up for dangerous tackles. Ankles are broken on legit tackles as much as they are on dangerous tackles; what diving does is discourage all tackles, which we don't want to do. An after-the-fact video review (for both diving and high tackles) would do a much better job…

Baseball's obsession with the TV audience is probably understandable, but it is discouraging. The 2nd wild-card has ruined the stretch run: how do you get excited for your team to get a chance to play one more game, particularly when that game will most likely be decided by luck, not talent (baseball, like soccer, is…

You know what Brandon Weeden is silently thankful for every night before bedtime? Blaine Gabbert.