Yeah, but he’s getting roasted on the court and in the locker room regardless.

Kid needs to be arrested and told in open court that he sucker-punched a guy sitting down, which is the definition of chickenshit. I say this as a lawyer.

As Billy Beane once famously explained the A’s regular season dominance and post-season flameouts, “My shit doesn’t work in the playoffs.”

I think you put waaaaay too much power in the hands of the pitcher. The new-ish stat of BABIP is valuable because it indicates how variable things are after the ball leaves the bat (since it varies wildly from season to season - for both batters and pitchers - it shows it isn’t an actual skill, just luck). But you…

I think we can all agree that Roy Williams is the real victim here. I, for one, am just happy that the cloud over Roy’s reputation has lifted. Now he continue doing the Lord’s work: making millions a year off the free labor of teenagers. Whew!

Except you can’t play Teodosic and Beverley at the same time. Beverley is offensively at least an order of magnitude less than Paul and we’ll have to see how Teodosic plays defense in games that matter (particularly at crunch time). Yes, CP4 was a dick to play with (even though he made everyone better), but that’s a…

The only way the US is going to raise the quality of our players to the level of the Europeans and South Americans is to adopt their academy system of training, which flies in the face of everything Americans believe about youth sports.

Up front, let me state the I love soccer. Played it as a kid way back in the ‘70s (during its first rise in popularity in the U.S.), my daughter has been playing competitive club level soccer most of her childhood (she’s now a senior in HS), and we watch Premier League games every weekend. So I think I have some…

So this pretty much puts all the slavish dick-sucking about STUDENT-athletes to bed, right? Meanwhile, Roy Williams and UNC get a stern admonishment for having their student-ATHLETES attend fake classes. Fuck this.

One thing I’ve always wondered about the Templars was how corrupt they actually became. Its hard because most of the contemporary writing about them comes from the purge time, so its probably as reliable as Dan Brown’s take on them. Because history shows that with great wealth comes great power AND great corruption,…

That’s meaningless sales puffery. Government is far less about innovation and vision than it is about making fucking sausage. Even ostensibly visionary innovators in industry are generally full of shit: Bill Gates and Steve Jobs both were smart enough to get in early on a socio-technology turning point, but its not…

The reason people are turning to business CEOs is because people are stupid sheep who will screw themselves tomorrow just to feel good about sticking it to someone else today.

Whenever I hear someone say this or that government agency should be “run more like a business”, I shake my head at their complete ignorance of how government and business work. Fuck it, forget about large, complex organizations: these people don’t know how other humans work.

As the father of a female soccer player, I think your are sadly correct: the US dominates women’s soccer because the traditional dominant nations don’t care about women’s soccer. If England, Italy, Brazil, Argentina put anywhere near the money and effort into their women’s programs as they do their men’s, I doubt…

You mistake Her Scheisse’s income inequality argument. He’s not saying income inequality is causing shitty soccer, he’s saying income inequality causes soccer to be played only by the haves, not by the have-nots. I don’t believe the majority of non-Canadian CONCACAF teams are made up of rich kids.

Would love to hear reaction form Kennesaw State alums on this. Don’t you think this just reinforces Georgia’s image as a standard bearer for all things anti-civil rights? Why would multi-national companies with internationally diverse workforces want to do business in your state, when your institutions of government…

Hamilton, you seem to be completely missing the incredibly cynical meaning of what Ellis said. Republicans have concluded that American voters are idiots with zero math fluency and a complete inability to delay gratification; I would say this is a sad but accurate conclusion. Offer the average American $X now and…

Snowflake.

Sounds like Trevor Rosenthal is the one to blame for the whole season, since the Cards were undefeated and in first place until he fucked up everything by not covering first fast enough on July 20 (from where they never won a game again, the whole season).

When I was a kid (back when barely any Americans played soccer), we played a lot of games on fields this shitty, often in damp, cold weather. There was usually 20 guys standing around, wet, miserable, and wondering why their parents were making them play in this shit, while there were 2 kids (whose parent were…