Kuwait's stats definitely look bad, but Canada's don't look 91-0 overwhelming.

The MLS could see progress if the owners are willing to throw around all kinds of money to get Thierry Henry of 2003 instead of Thierry Henry of 2013.

Klinsmann is absolutely correct the MLS has to improve, but I don't know how that happens unless a bunch of Russian or Arab billionaires buy the teams and start throwing money around recklessly. It's kind of a chicken/egg dilemma: the academy model employed by pro clubs in Europe and South America won't work here…

Because you want a coach that is focused on reality, not on patriotic wish-fulfillment. Anyone who honestly believed the US had a semi-decent chance to win the WC is either (1) ignorant of soccer or (2) delusional to the point of involuntary commitment. It may not have been the most PR-sensitive statement, but…

Because I have no other place to air this (and because you dropped OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder's name), what is the deal with OneRepublic's "Love Runs Out": is it or is it not a complete rip-off of Kanye's "Love Lockdown"? It doesn't look like they denote Kanye with a songwriting credit, how is he not suing?

Thank you for this review; I've been watching the commercials for this and have been thinking "Is Melissa McCarthy really making a comedy about a mentally-retarded person? That is horrible!"

Try living in California. "Oh, do you live on the beach?" Mostly asked by people from Illinois. And by Illinois, I mean Chicago.

I think growing support for soccer in America is important. Football is reaching a critical point in its history: how do we condone children doing something that is almost certain to physically and mentally harm them? Combine the medical reasons with the liability issues associated with it (along with the money it…

This also shows what happened after the final freeze-frame in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.

It's a loser's lot to look for moral victories after a game like that, but I agree with most of the posts below: the USMNT did us proud. Going up against the teams ranked 2, 4, and 11 in the world going into the WC, we ended up only an aggregate 2 goals down.

Nope, I absolutely agree with SixPointer. There may have been some earlier instances where a PK (or at least a free kick) could have been awarded for a tackle on Robben, but this was undeserved. Robben is fantastic, but he's the worst diver in Europe and this sucked.

I think it is actually impossible for Colon to hit a legit inside-the-park-home-run, but if he were to hit a single or double (possible in the big picture of cosmic possibilities) and enjoy two or three defensive errors, it would absolutely by the most entertaining moment in Sports Center history.

I normally root for my Northern European heritage once the US has been eliminated (i.e., England, Germany, Netherlands, France). But I'm totally jazzed by CONCACAF's performance so far; I was totally excited by Mexico's game today and was almost as heartbroken for them as I was in 2010 when Ghana beat us in the first…

While I think you are primarily right (that the absence of an actual student-athlete testifying on the NCAA's behalf doesn't mean a lot), I do think it would have strengthened the NCAA's case to have had a number of former NCAA players testify that their collegiate experience was unique, particularly in contrast to…

I've now entered the next stage of old manhood: the guys who used to make me feel old by being in the pros are now being made to feel old by new guys in the pros. I am now grandold. Fuckin' Julius Randle.

From my vast knowledge of going through 4 pregnancies as the worthless male component in the equation, my memory is that physical activity does not put the baby at risk because it is well-buffered by the amniotic fluid (think of an egg in a full bucket of light vegetable oil; even if you shook it violently from side…

It's not about what you did in the past but what they think you will do in the future. Players like Napier have basically shown all there is to see, only at a level that is (at least) one step below the NBA. Guys like Dante Exum or Joel Embiid have given only a tantalizing taste of what they might become.

I actually like the cone of shame punishment better than a ban. Sure Luis; you can still play.

Tom, your assessment of what LeBron would mean to the Knicks is very insightful, if a tad optimistic.

This requires at least a ban for the rest of the tournament, but given its his third offense and he has already been suspended for 7 then 10 games for the prior two incidents, I think a year-long ban is warranted.