I've never seen this show, but Landry Fields did a pretty good job at that (and as a Cal fan, it pains me to compliment Stanfurd guys).

As has been discussed many times on this site, baseball's "unwritten rules" are for dickheads. I agree with you that the idea that "retribution" is required because you grooved a pitch to a power hitter who took it deep is ridiculous; what is required is that you pitch better. I always though Clemens was a…

So George R.R. Martin's soccer alias is "Chuck Blazer"? Sounds right.

The best response is by the 3rd Base ump - he's basically saying "what the fuck?" while laughing.

First point: per the commercial, Gatorade was developed at the University of Florida for the football team. If that's not misplaced priorities, I don't know what is. If you are accepting "science" from a huge football factory, you are stupid and deserve all the cramps you get.

I, for one, am completely shocked . . . shocked I say . . . that FIFA (of all people) would be embroiled in a corruption scandal. Be honest; didn't you think that what soccer/football needed was its grandest spectacle being played at 122° F?

Yeah, Canada is cute in concept, but c'mon. USA! USA! USA!

No moron, I'm well versed in it. The English language has developed all kinds of odd rules and exceptions to those odd rules over many centuries, but it nonetheless has pronunciation rules. If the pronunciation of "dwyane" becomes standardized to "dewayne" over time, so be it. My point, which you don't seem to…

Dwayne is actually of Irish origin as well.

I am really looking forward to both season 2 of True Detective and peppering my cocktail banter with "psychospheric ambiance". "I'm not sure I like the proposed valuation for TechCo's IPO; the psychospheric ambiance of that place really brings to mind desolation, but, I guess, stranger still is lost Carcosa. Why,…

I was a high-jumper in high school (not really that high, however). Being a track guy meant you spent practice running, but being a field guy meant you mostly goofed around. We didn't have decathlon, so the best athletes gravitated towards pole vaulting (which is an unusual combination of speed and strength, like…

I choose to believe that non-standard spellings are not an example of illiteracy in the African-American community, but an intentional effort to carve out some uniqueness for their children.

How do you train for this? It looks like they start with their middle finger extended, not clenched in their fist (which would only require grip strength).

This just further confirms by theory that old people suck (also, weak and slow).

Jesus Christ; as a baseball fan, there is literally no "good guy" in this story. Fuck Rob Manfred, but for Christ's sake, he is so much "better" ("less worse"?) than Reinsdorf. Vlad Tepes would be better than Reinsdorf.

It kind of shocks me that a team that has had the top pick 3 of the previous 4 seasons is still going to suck next year (and they have one of the top point guards in the league, and they still suck).

I think rugby is going to be huge after the Brazil Olympics. Sevens is a perfect T.V. sport and a great introduction to the game for a relatively ignorant audience. I'm stoked.

This is just another variation on the "Slippery Rock is the national champion because Slippery Rock beat Shippensburg St., who beat Delaware St., who beat . . . who beat Notre Dame, so Slippery Rock is national champion." What we obviously need is to round up as many players as are still living from the pre-BCS era,…

I like the idea of 4 man rotations with a pitch count set to each starter; the 4th and 5th guys can iron out any scheduling issues to keep the top 3 guys on an every fourth day schedule. This has been proposed by a number of people, primarily because it better orients with the body's stress/recovery cycle and will…

As a long time Warriors fan, I look at the Knicks and just laugh. If your dysfunction is being compared unfavorably to the Warriors, you have some major organizational problems.