How does OU justify reinstating Mixon to the football team? He entered an Alford plea (which is technically a plea of “not guilty but the prosecution had enough evidence to convict”), so its not a “he said, she said” situation anymore. The video, to which I’m presuming OU had access, makes it clear that this wasn’t…

He took the money. End of story.

No, no, no. There are consequences for your actions. Just because you didn’t get into an accident or hurt someone while driving drunk doesn’t mean you shouldn’t get a DUI. Enshrinement in a Hall of Fame should be denied to those individuals whose “on the field” conduct undermined the game.

Curt Schilling is a stupid asshat, and 2016 demonstrated that stupid asshats can be very dangerous. I also hated him during his career, thinking him to be a phony and a self-aggrandizer. I think you got caught up in the mythos of the “big game pitcher” a bit, Tim, and the “Lives of the Saints” stories that built up…

The MLB HOF, like pretty much all other HOFs, exists primarily to give writers something to talk about in the offseason. Its neat and all, and the idea of recognizing the all-time greats is admirable I suppose, but in actual implementation, its a political clusterfuck (e.g., inducting Bud Selig, the man who ruined…

Say good-bye to your high U.S. News & World Report college ranking UNC. Start thinking University of Kansas level respect now.

Man, somebody is reallllly wrong here. This has all the markings of a complete program-killer.

When I slump in a chair, and bend over a little bit, I have a two-pack.

Trevor Hoffman’s lifetime WAR: 28 (per Baseball-Reference.com) or 26 (per Fangraphs). Number of players on 2017 HOF ballot with higher career WAR than Hoffman: 23 (including Lee Smith, a reliever).

The Raiders are vital to the city of Oakland’s “psyche”. Like an imaginary friend is vital to a mentally-ill child’s psyche. Like having a husband, any husband, is vital to an emotionally stunted, abused wife’s psyche. Like crack is vital to a crack addict’s psyche.

No, San Diego is just one big Photoshopped fake-out. Its usually really cold, always overcast, brown. This is what that bridge looks like, before retouching:

I am a “heterosexual white male” and I can say that the alt-right/neo-Nazis/small-dicked-Internet-posters-trying-to-overcompensate-for-confusing-being-an-asshole-with-being-oppressed is correct that heterosexual, white men have never been so under attack as they are today. Also, the Sun has never been as close to…

As a father of a boy, I cannot imagine a more insulting memorial for my son than: “the ‘Murph’ regimen, a sequence of 100 pull-ups, 200 push-ups, and 300 squats named after fallen Navy SEAL Michael Patrick Murphy.”

Admit it Jordan: you had already written the transcript of your conversation with Loria before you called him.

I starred your post very ambivalently. On the one hand, I completely agree with your assessment. On the other hand, what a horrible thing to have to consider.

Here’s the deal with pork bellies futures: look to the futures market on tomatoes. If the tomato crop is expected to be good, tomato prices fall, people buy more tomatoes and make more BLT sandwiches, requiring them to buy more bacon. Increasing demand for bacon = buy pork bellies now to lock in lower price when…

I’m grew up in the Bay Area, but my mom’s family is from southern Wisconsin (so, the “warm” part). My sister got her Masters at Madison and when she came home for Christmas, we all asked how she was surviving the Midwestern winter. She said that it was cold and had been really uncomfortable walking to class the last…

I remember playing in near-freezing rain, where there were ruts filled with ice-mud on the field, where your hands were throbbing with pain, and every time you kicked the ball, it was like kicking a bowling ball. Eventually, there would be 20 kids basically just standing there, while two little strikers (usually the…

HUGE West Coast bias.

Klay finished with 60 in only 3 quarters. What a quitter. If Kobe had felt it like that, he’d still be shooting at midnight.