One year for Christmas, one of my mom’s friends gave her one of those big tins of popcorn, divided into regular, caramel, and cheese flavors. No one really liked the cheese flavor, so the other two wedges were long gone when my then college-aged brother came home late one night and couldn’t find anything else to eat…

I effectively also failed to pick a title game winner, as I have Kansas beating Michigan State in the final. Fucking college basketball.

I think you are missing Haisley’s point: US soccer’s deficiencies are the same now as they’ve been for the past 20 years - a lack of development coherence. It shouldn’t be surprising that our U-20 team does well: the US has existing soccer infrastructure to push the best and brightest teenagers up through the ranks…

Owner Michael Jordan: “Homophobic bigots buy shoes, too.”

There are some real odd ones in here. Alaska and Ronnie Lott? White supremacists’ heaven and Rickey? South Carolina and Marlins Andre Dawson?

Mark Jackson, is that you?

While I agree with your basic sentiment (low-scoring does not equal boring), this game was not a good example of that. The Spurs played brute force defense, which is effective if the officials let you get away with it (they did last night; I doubt they would have if the game was in Oakland), but its also the reason…

After watching this, every 3 year old ever: “Fucking bears are fucking stupid.”

God damn it, this is infuriating. I understand the difficulties schools are under: acquaintance rape is the ultimate “he said, she said
crime and high school administrators are not well trained in interrogation. But on the other hand, high school boys are generally idiots (even the smart ones) and are more likely than…

Gossage is one of the few relievers that actually belongs in the Hall of Fame; I admire and respect Goose the player. But he appears to be kind of a dumb, grumpy guy in all other respects. Asking him a question about anything other than pitching is just bull-baiting at this point. Its like asking Stephen Hawking about…

That’s just how long the line was. NYCFC has a yuuge fan base.

The whole “public apology” thing is a joke. While at least she didn’t go the typical “I’m sorry if anyone was offended by my comments” route (i.e., I’m sorry you are thin-skinned), she still doesn’t acknowledge what she did wrong.

“Wrong, wrong, wrong as many science writers were quick to point out over and over and over.”

My dad and his friends all played Pac-12 basketball (back when it was the Pacific Coast Conference); many of them played for a national champion and all of them coached at the high school, junior college, or college level. They had an on-going debate about what made a good team. My dad’s take-away was that the fit of…

I don’t think “earned emotional response” is a particularly subjective thing. Expressing joy after making a big play is fine. I suppose the definition of “big play” is where the subjectivity comes in, but I think most everyone agrees on the basic parameters: it has to be meaningful to the outcome, as judged from the…

While I think you’ve got a valid point that white people use “civility” to cover racisim, baseball’s unwritten rules date back forever, into the time when the only people breaking them were other white people. They’ve always been an excuse for prickly, chicken-shit, red-asses like John McGraw or Leo Durocher to…

The NFL seems to have a lot of idiot owners who are easily manipulated by political schemers who aren’t real good at the whole football thing. The comment about knowing what round a guy would go in but not being able to tell you if he would be any good is a horrible thing to say about a GM.

Kid was set; charging.

I have to take issue with any placement of P.F. Chang’s or Applebee’s higher than Being Hit By a Car. Both places blatantly goose their alcohol sales by using salt as the third most important ingredient in any recipe ( 1. protein, 2. carb, 3. - 10. salt, 11. anything else). I’m not protesting from a health perspective…

I think Casey should have confronted the woman, if for no other reason, because it makes a great story. I have a high school friend who is one of those guys that gets pissed if you make fun of him, but who tells great stories about embarrassing himself. His best story, however, is one where he ended up the hero.