I’m going to agree with @cwolf, infra, on this: there are not nearly enough competent QBs in the world to fill the 32 starting slots in the NFL. With the game being run the way it is currently, QBs have maxed out physically and intellectually; they can’t get bigger, stronger, and faster (at least to any positive…

This is the best take on the Weeden signing: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2017/10/03/brandon_weeden_gets_colin_kaepernick_s_job.html.

Dude. Are you seriously looking for ethical foundation, narrative honesty, and social awareness in the WWE? I applaud your perspective, but c’mon. It is an organization built on making shit up. Its to commercial organizations what Trump is to humans.

I’m confused: are you saying the NCAA’s eternal witch hunt of UNLV/Tarkanian is evidence that they “hammer the big guys”? They don’t; they hammer the Cleveland States while the money-makers (Duke, UK, UNC in basketball; the entire SEC and Big 12 in football) get an occasional stern look or maybe an admonishment.

“This idea that they’re not professionals is nonsense. They’re not there like normal students and we shouldn’t pretend that they are. Some of them, yes, go to class, but most of them are students differently because they’re there for athletics and not academics.”

“there are precedents they could use, such as the fact that AS Monaco competes in the French League”

If I squint and have a drink or two, I can almost see this working offensively. Love does three things well: shoot, pass, and rebound. I’m assuming they’ll play him at a high post, out of which he has always been a great pick and roll option or where he can be trusted to make the 17-footer or hit the cutter. More…

Love breaks Sanders’s single-season rushing record, Stanford finishes up in a prime (but not New Years Day) bowl, and he maybe gets invited to the Heisman ceremony. Maybe. Meanwhile, Saquon Barkley, Baker Mayfield, and Jalen Hurts keep running up stats on nobodies and have already booked their flights. Welcome to…

Jesus, I want Ohm Youngmisuk writing my resume. 5-7-8 are “triple-double-like” in the same way I’m “Mark Zuckerberg-like” or “Elon Musk-like” or even “Clark Griswold-like”.

Let’s not oversell the pre-draft analysis here, Chris. Yes, everyone had him as one of the top 3 or 4, but with the distinct caveat that he had to do something about his hideous shot before his game was NBA complete. Nothing that’s happened since has really changed that. He’s still kind of Jason Kidd at this point…

One of the downsides to limited playoffs in MLB (unlike the NBA or NHL where everybody gets a playoff slot) has always been that there is a lot of meaningless games being played in September. Although increasing the WC to two teams has changed that to some degree, I’ve always liked teams going nowhere trying to keep…

“As of publication, Rivers was still mad, and will probably be for a while, because he plays for a poorly supported team that also constantly lets him down.”

“In a political environment where Trump is regularly referred to as a racist under the newly expanded definition”

In discussing any “problem”, we must first be sure we have defined the parameters (cause and effect) of that problem clearly so we’re all talking about the same thing. What is the NBA’s draft intended to accomplish, does it do that, and, if not, is there a better method to accomplish that goal.

Make the draft completely random. For extra spice, don’t do the lottery until the televised draft itself. That removes any incentive to lose intentionally (you could be drafting a franchise guy or 7-foot, 215 lbs 17 year old from Estonia who you’ll have to stash overseas for a few years).

“a chip in it that autoplays the Kars4Kids jingle.”

Why don’t you think SI owes James, Curry, or any of the other athletes pictured an apology for co-opting their image to make a political statement that never happened? They may not have a very strong legal argument for defamation (public figures and all), but implying that they stand united with Roger Goodell and…

“in some ways, even though his picture is not there, Colin Kaepernick is there.”

Your position is just the general “legalization of all drugs, man” argument. You prosecute this because (1) society has determined that the unfettered distribution and ingestion of addictive substances is bad, (2) a crime is a crime whether committed by an adult or a child, (3) policing of behavior only works if a…

“Yes, those students have been rewarded for their honesty by losing the rest of their football season. Sorry, kids”