Putin is like Trump without the piece, but with nukes. Not sure which is worse.

When do we stop lionizing college quarterbacks who have the athletic skill to dominate inferior college talent simply by being bigger and faster? I don’t mean at the NFL level, I mean at the NCAA level. RG3 wasn’t a great QB in college, he was simply the QB on a team that had better athletes than the other shitty…

I went to a Raider game a couple years ago. The scariest fans weren’t the Black Hole denizens, nor was it the rest of the non-costumed ex-felons, it was the girlfriends. They were all like 5’1” tall, 165 lbs., shaved and redrawn eyebrows, rhinestone bedazzled tank tops, black jeans, drinking Smirnoff Ice and giving…

Set in an alternate reality past, Blue runs for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination and positions himself as a mainstream, fiscally conservative, but socially liberal Rockefeller Republican. When he/she (?) gets pilloried on Fox News, Blue suffers an undetected psychotic break, names the T-Rex as his new…

Goodell and the NFL will lose a federal appeal. That will go a long way to rendering (or, more accurately, continuing to render) their disciplinary regime toothless. To advocate a hard-line here is the epitome of “winning the battle, losing the war” strategy for which NFL owners have become infamous. Their next step:…

I’m one of Melo’s biggest critics, but even I have to admit that he’s supremely talented: when he wants to, he can pass as well as any 4 and can defend adequately. I’m giving Jackson the benefit of the doubt (because he’s more than earned it), but I’m assuming he believes Melo is actually committed to winning with the…

My daughter and I have been watching Wayward Pines and she’s decided she’s going to Halloween as Lou Reed Diamond Phillips. Triple Yahtzee!

To all the Red Sox players who find it difficult to play with the Boston media breathing down your neck, try being a Mexican soccer player. Mexican media expects their national team to be 1970 Brazil every time; anything less seems to be a failure.

In terms of incompetence/corruptness, CONCACAF is one of the worst of the football confederations (probably only “better” than CAF and AFC), but its kind of like dumping on the poorly behaved children of douchebag assholes. When the model is so horrible, you can’t really expect the children to be anything other than…

Little harsh; the guy handled it better than most (I know, not the highest bar).

I suppose there are a number of reasons a player gives his team a home-town discount, but I can really only think of 3 legit ones: (1) you anticipate that the loyalty will flow both ways so that they will be willing to sign you to an inflated contract when you are older in order to maintain the fan base (the Derek…

Ranadive deserves this for his hubris. “I have been uber-successful in software, so it only stands to reason I will be uber-successful in all things. And because uber-success obviously equates to intelligence, it is clear that I am a basketball genius. I will run a permanent cherry-pick defense (a half-assed version…

Yes, to a certain degree I agree with you that its whiny to complain about having to play a hard opponent (particularly after you’ve lost), but I also think the FIFA seeding process is bullshit. If the intention of a tournament is to identify the best team, you don’t want to give a lesser team an easy path to the…

I’m a little shocked the Broncos didn’t just release Manning (I’m assuming his guaranteed money has already been paid, but maybe not?). He is not worth $19M at this point. The only risk in releasing him is that another team signs him and he excels, but do we really think that is a risk? (disclaimer: I’m a Manning fan…

Really could have used a comma, England.

VictorH, you are incorrectly presuming there is a legal case regarding the inflation of balls used during a private sporting event; only in that event would Brady’s actual statements/emails/texts/etc. be relevant (or be likely to lead to the discovery of admissible evidence). It doesn’t matter if Brady outright said…

I love British ales, porters, stouts, but really do not like IPAs. Much like religion, I’m fine with others liking something I do not. But IPAs have become the crabgrass of craft beers, at least in the ale field. No one makes anything except IPAs (or German lagers or Czech pilsners, but I don’t like those). Why isn’t…

I always liked the stories where the college marching band (say Cal’s) is playing its part of the half-time show on its rival’s field (say Stanford). Cal finishes their last number, in a formation that spells out their school’s name, and take their bows (to jeers from Stanford’s notoriously horrible home crowd).…

I think the Olympics should exclude any “sports” played by non-athletes. This rules out: flying disc (stoners); chess and orienteering (nerds); and snooker, polo, racquetball, squash, bridge, and dance sport (Fauntleroys). Also, for reasons already mentioned, American football is not feasible for a two week event.…

Maybe the biggest indictment of the NCAA and its inherent conflict in its role as chief lobbyist/police/judge for college sports is that this report comes out after “other reports and investigations that have come out in the past five years”. It took them that long to figure out how to protect one of its flagship…