NBC: whitewashing negative sport’s stories for 90 years!

I’m with Drew Magary: cancel all preseason game. While all preseason games are meaningless, at least MLB’s and the NBA’s are entertaining (within the context of their sport generally) and MLB’s games are relatively cheap. There is simply not another sport in which preseason games are less interesting than pro football…

I’ve always wondered to what degree (if any) the results of these human physical performance test are skewed by using only highly conditioned athletes. Compression gear seems applicable: the circulatory and respiratory systems of a highly conditioned athlete are already running at near peak efficiency, so tests…

American football fans are divided into three groups: (1) hardcore “college football is pure” idiots; (2) rational “the best players and coaches are in the NFL” realists; and (3) casual fans. A spring league featuring borderline players won’t appeal to the third group at all. The college fans would only be interested…

“Warren Sapp Got Bitten By A Shark, But He’s Okay”

I am basically with you: we’ve been getting these doom-and-gloom stories in the run-up to the last 5 or 6 Olympics and by the Opening Ceremonies, everything is about 95% okay. Part of this is just gamesmanship by other nations (dump on host nation to make your team’s accomplishments look better and give an excuse for…

In Sales defense, the throwback was to the unfortunate 1947 season when the White Sox donned their infamous “classy” uniforms:

With about 6 months heads up, Los Angeles could host the Olympics for about a tenth of the cost of any of the last few cities. But the IOC leadership gets enormous bribes from large construction-lobbyists and corrupt government officials to put the games in cities that will need to spend billions on new facilities and…

Yeah, I basically agree.

As I mentioned, kids get a pass. You followed the path I would expect: you rooted for your parents school when you were a kid, went to college and now root for that team. The fact that its all the same school is irrelevant.

You misunderstand. The basic assumption is that if you attended a college, you will be a fan of your alma mater. If you didn’t attend college, why would you be a diehard fan of a college? So, I give the HS exception to people who didn’t attend college, but I also recognize that people from Texas value HS football out…

I have very strict rules about fandomness, by which I mean “I live and die for . . .” or “I bleed [team color]” fandom. You can root for either your HS or college alma mater, but not both (this is a sop to those who either (1) didn’t go to college or (2) grew up in Texas). If you are choosing to root for your college,…

We got one of those giant buckets of cheese popcorn one Christmas and my little brother came home late one night and ate the entire thing while watching a movie. About 4 am, he began barfing up cheese popcorn. 25 years later, my sister can still get him to throw up in his own mouth by just saying “cheese popcorn”. He…

My wife, who is generally an open-minded and tolerant person, watched this with me and said, “How Polish.”

If Lebron James dunked a human head instead of a basketball, he would be questioned by police.

Ladies, ladies. Where are the cheesecake shots of you two in swimsuits, cardigans, and socks?

This lawsuit will not meet the legal requirements for standing. He doesn’t have a large enough group of people who have suffered actual, cognizable harm to form a class, so he can’t file a class-action. His intention to file it on behalf of all white Americans (or worse, all Americans) renders it invalid because there…

I’m not a hockey fan (grew up in Northern California, time already filled with baseball, basketball, football, and soccer by the time the Sharks came around), but I think the Stanley Cup’s annual summer adventures is one of the coolest things in sport.

My high school team was very good; the best that could be said about me was that I was good enough to be on the team. I was probably the only guy in the entire section that couldn’t beat his dad in 1-on-1 (in my defense, my dad started for a D1 college basketball team - played against Bill Russell - and at the highest…

Greatest and most underappreciated American band ever. Thank you, Diana, for this.