So I love the EPL (my Gunners are now just one point behind Man City for the second spot), but the fact that end-of-the-season excitement is partially based on which teams finish as the three worst strikes me as a problem.

I'm still thinking we will not see NFL football in L.A. anywhere in the near future. L.A.'s position as an extortion device for all 32 teams is too valuable; it is the goose that lays luxury box/stadium upgrades/advantageous lease agreement eggs. I'm not sure how San Diego does things, but Oakland city and Alameda…

First of all, OldBeigeGuy, well played. Although I think Miller went to Central Florida. But still.

Yeah, this is shaping up to be a great season for 49er fans. New coach whose sole qualification appears to be making 16-year-old Tommy Boy owner feel good about himself? Check. All-time franchise running back signs with new team? Check. Pro-Bowl linebacker unexpectedly retires? Check. Second Pro-Bowl linebacker…

Jesus Christ are we fucked up in America. How did we create a world in which an institution of higher learning's sports teams become economic enterprises powerful enough to subvert the school's educational mission? I'm not naive and I'm a huge sports fan who owns far too many shirts, hats, and sweatshirts with my…

I think "[I] disagree with the [gay] life-style, 100%" is the dumb person's way of saying "I'm not gay". The fact that Murphy feels the need to clarify that probably reveals more about where America is regarding homosexuality than polls about marriage equality.

The best part of this is the reaction by the other Knicks. Or perhaps lack of reaction is a better term.

My dad was a great athlete: out of high school, he turned down a contract with the Pirates and a football scholarship to UCLA to play basketball and volleyball at Stanford; he started in basketball for two years (get this, at center, then at guard) and was All-American one year in volleyball.

Hello, my name . . . uh . . . my name is Finn. <crowd: "Hello Finn."> I am a redhead. <crowd politely applauds; many smile encouragingly>

Redheads don't go grey. Our hair slowly beiges out to white.

Although it makes no geographic sense, this headline would have been even better had the event occurred in Wales.

I'm an old man who exercises in a futile attempt to stave off death and my workouts are beginning to accomplish the opposite of what they should: my joints always hurt, my muscles are sore out of proportion to the stress I put on them, and very few hot chicks are hitting on me in the gym (okay, that last one isn't a…

No, I agree with you on this: the NFL (as Barry points out in his article) looks like a bunch of morons YET AGAIN. Somewhere, inside his super-villain lair high in the Alps, Sepp Blatter is laughing hysterically at the NFL's ineptitude.

I think there a lot of situations in which "the accusation is the conviction", but this isn't one of them. Belichick rivals Popovich in his "I could not give fewer fucks" attitude towards the media, the league office, and other types of mere mortals in general, so until he's hit with a substantive money fine or the…

No, you're missing the point. The NFL doesn't owe the Patriots an apology over Deflategate, because the NFL has not yet released the final results of its findings on that investigation. This is a second AFC Championship Game ball "scandal", for which no one has actually accused the Patriots of doing anything…

My son interpreted the announcement that Carmelo was shutting it down "after the All-Star Game" to mean Carmelo would play in the ASG, then go on the IR list. I said no way; it had to mean he was playing up until the last game of the first half, then neither play in the ASG nor during the second half; no legitimate…

I was sitting in my doctor's office this morning while First Take was showing. Normally, I operate within one very simple rule: if Stephen A. thinks something, I think the opposite; this rule has served me well. However, he and Skip were discussing the Charles "I-hate-the-nerds" story and found myself agreeing with…

Well, I'll give Jones credit in that he owned up to his mistake when he realized it; most of the right-wing idiots just double down on the crazy when presented with reality.

What a fucking depressing thing. I hate us.

If you look at Maravich's college numbers, you first think he must be some Bevo Francis outlier, playing against colleges that no longer exist or were simply jumped up trade schools. Then you realize he was playing at LSU in the SEC, against teams like Kentucky and Tennessee that were routinely ranked in the top 20. …