The problem is basically what xMRNUTTYx points out: GMs keep screwing each other over by overpaying for Cabrera's, Pujols's, Hamilton's, etc. declining years. Being a GM would seem to be a fairly easy thing these days: knowing the value of a single WAR and being able to reasonably project a player's future…

This must be killing UK fans.

I'm not sure this is accurate. NFL records from before Christ are famously inaccurate and incomplete. I'm going to guess there were a lot of great centers and QBs from Greece, back in the day.

I agree on the age-limit. I think it borders on an unconstitutional restraint of trade.

I'm mocking people who think Division I football and basketball has anything to do with college, let alone that it is virtuous. Given your comment on Saban and Calipari, I'm guessing you are one of those people.

The people who think Marcus Smart showed class and intelligence by returning to OSU for his sophomore season are the same people who love to go on and on about the purity of college athletics (fundamentally better, more exciting product, better coaching, magical unicorns, fairy godmothers, etc.) An earlier post…

I'm a white guy and I oppose paying college athletes because I think the concept of "student-athlete" (at leas as it exists in major college, Division 1 schools) is complete bullshit. I don't want my tax dollars to be used to subsidize the NFL's and the NBA's minor league. I don't want the highest paid public…

I've got a friend from childhood that was the best drunk-sport player of all time. If there was a professional wiffle-ball league, he would be both it's Babe Ruth and it's Walter Johnson. He was also so competitive that we all feared for the moment when his son got his first solid hit off his dad; the next pitch was…

Cuban is usually correct in his criticisms of professional sports. What will kill the NFL as a cash cow is not just oversaturation, but oversaturation with an inferior product. The players have made it clear that they hate the Thursday game (for that matter, they've never been really happy with the Monday one)…

Anyone else get a huge '50's Brando vibe from the Future Islands front man?

What a pollock.

He apologized like 3 times afterwards. His broadcasting partner, notorious Polack Mike Gminski, said something to the effect of "I got your back". Fuckin' Polack.

I think this guy cheated. No one picked Mercer, Dayton, Stephen F. Austin, Harvard, and North Dakota St. One or even two of them, but not all of them.

My dad played major college basketball in the mid-50's and had an old uniform lying around the house. It had satin pants like those shown. My dad was much bigger than I was while growing up, so when I finally hit high school and was tall and broad enough for them to fit, I thought it would be cool to wear them to…

Also, re: your kid being a dick to you, Drew: how'd my daughter get to your house and become your son?

I'm a goddamned, red-white-and-blue bleeding American, but even I have to admit that O Canada is a better song than ours.

The Yankees-Red Sox playoff game in 1978 (the "Bucky-fucking-Dent" game) was televised, which was a big deal in that pre-cable era. In California, it was on during the school day. I was a sophomore and we had it on in the student lounge during lunch. When lunch ended, a bunch of the seniors just stayed watching, so…

When Kevin Love hit it big at UCLA, I read an article (I'm pretty sure in SI) that compared his outlet pass to Rambis's. Rambis is the gold standard, with Love coming up hard on the inside.

Man, the Italian version of The Voice appears to have bigger douchebag-looking dudes than our own. Way to take it up a notch, Italy!

Historically, this has been as often untrue as it has been true. See 2000, UConn being the no. 1 most of the season but losing Kenyon Martin during the league tournament and being given a 2 seed. This article: http://basketball.about.com/od/ncaatournam… lists a few more examples.