Absolutely agree with TartanSixNine: football is the only professional sport in America in which the quality of the coach directly equates to wins. Baseball managers need to handle pitchers correctly and basketball coaches need to handle egos, but at the end of the day, the players win and lose games. But football…

All I know is that I am so proud of myself for not becoming a rich guy and creating a situation where my children and third wife are fighting over my sports team. I'm sure my children will thank me eventually.

I am definitely going to try all that at home!

The suspension of AD meant an unfortunate lack of orange peanuts, but otherwise a stellar effort.

Horace the pig with the round poops.

Jesus Christ, Wisconsin; get out of the house once in a while.

I'm not sure which is the most interesting NBA scoring oddity: (1) Tony Delk once scored 50 points in a game or (2) Jamal Crawford has scored 50 points for three separate teams.

There is no way the rest of the NFL ownership is going to allow the Rams (or anyone) to move to L.A.; even teams like the Giants, the Steelers, and the Packers who aren't going anywhere ever benefit financially from the threat of L.A. (because of revenue sharing). No one will ever actually move to L.A., at least not…

The NBA and NFL are two leagues for which I would never want to be a GM because talent evaluation is so fraught, albeit for different reasons. In the NFL, its really just the QB position that causes the problem (a statement which fits in with the "Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?" line of analysis):…

Sports, generally (and sports journalism particularly), is filled with moments of easy and often cheap emotionalism. But it is also often the most simple channel through which true human emotion can be conveyed. Al Michaels's "Do you believe in miracles?" and Jim Valvano running around like a crazy person are…

I'm sorry I missed the opportunity to chat with the staff, but if that is the staff picture, one of you is the heir to the heir to the heir to the British throne, Prince Chubbington. Nice hire.

No, I think the NFL's discipline system failed because Suh got away with the kind of cheap shot that has been an unfortunate hallmark of his pro career. I'm making some assumptions here: (1) that the NFL discipline system exists (at least in this context) to prevent players from cheap-shotting another player into…

I'm not sure Barry intended to say "the system worked"; if he did, he's wrong. The system obviously didn't work because a player got away with a cheap-shot that could have seriously harmed another player; the"process", however, worked as it was written. This points out that anytime you contractually define a…

Pro football is either the hardest industry ever in which to evaluate talent or it is staffed by morons (I strongly suspect the former, but do not reject the latter out of hand). The process of selecting head coaches and quarterbacks seem to be effectively random. To be fair, I think quality pro QBs are simply a…

Jesus Christ; what is the standard of judgment employed by school districts in making hiring decisions these days? Was there no one in Fort Bragg who thought "Gosh, teen-agers are making a statement that really has no relevance in this almost all-white town, in a basketball tournament with teams from similarly…

So the takeaway from the 2014 Year In Policing is: if you're going to be dumb enough to be an African-American male in America, be it in Tallahassee, FL while playing for FSU.

That Gladwell piece always irked me (and I generally like Gladwell); I didn't realize it was Ranadive. The story is actually that Ranadive was coaching his 12-year-old daughter's NJB basketball team and knew nothing about basketball. So he turned to 49ers great Roger Craig (who worked for Ranadive at TIBCO) for…

An unexpectedly appropriate response from Brown's management.

I love soccer, but this is why it will never win over America. I didn't watch this whole game, but I've seen quite a few games, amateur and professional, in which one team thoroughly outplays the other, only to lose on PKs. PKs are almost purely a function of goalie luck and shooter screw-ups. To have a contest…

It will be interesting to see how Brown's management handles this and see if they learned any lessons from the Rams's bungling of their situation. Advice to Browns management: your response should include the phrase "go fuck yourself".