The NBA has always had extremely flexible standards for “official” stats.

You are simply wrong. Kaepernick was hardly the second coming of Joe Montana, but he was a good QB on a good team for a year and a half. Then he had the misfortune of being a good QB on an injury-ravaged 8-8 team. Then Jed York’s feelings got hurt, he blew up the team, hired an aluminum-siding salesman as Head Coach,…

I don’t really see what the end game is here for Jeter and his team.

“I understand your frustration and I do apologize for the hitshooting you! In no way was I trying to hurt you. My first instinct was turn and make a blockto shoot my gun. In all sincerity I do apologize. I truly respect you as a playerperson and I made a mistake!”

God, it will be so good to see the NFL suffering massive damage from the defection of its own moron fan contingent. It will be like how the Republican party has been destroyed by its own cultivation of the wing-nut Tea Party base. Oh; wait . . .

Or just everyone calling them the RedHawks. Snyder and his atrocious minions can yell and stamp their feet all they want, but the RedHawks are here to stay.

MLS can’t decide what it wants to be: (1) a professional sports league, competing with the NFL, NBA, MLB, etc. for the sports fan’s dollar or (2) a development pipeline for US Soccer. It can’t be both. Right now, its neither.

I would have to agree with #tabletopper: the EPL is hardly a good example of uncompetitiveness in soccer. The story of European pro soccer (which has been consistently regarded as the “best” pro soccer in the world) is the story of the haves and have-nots. Over the past 20 years: 

- La Liga has been won by either Real…

Trammell first became eligible in 2002, when HOF voters (who have traditionally been older-skewing) generally did not embrace modern analytics. During his 15 years on the ballot, only 7 position players had appreciably higher value for their career than Trammell did: Boggs (2005), Ripken (2007), Henderson (2009),…

The whole purpose of the Veterans Committee (which has now been divided into 3 separate era-based groups) is to “make up” for a deserving player getting caught up in the BBWA criteria for HOF voting or for attitudes about value changing over time. A voter can only select 10 names and you have to get 5% of the vote to…

This is great, because Trammell definitely belongs in the HOF (and I’m a “small Hall” guy), but it kind of sucks because (1) Lou Whitaker deserves it more and (2) Jack Morris doesn’t deserve it. And I’m not even a Tigers fan.

File this as entry 1,748 in the “Great Players Don’t Make Great Management” file. The opposite file pretty much consists of only Kenny Dalglish, Franz Beckenbauer, Jerry West, maybe Larry Bird, and Joe Torre.

My friend Tim was our starting center my junior year and once fouled out in the first 5 minutes of the game, 0 points, 0 rebounds. He sat down next to me on the bench and said, “I guess I should get started on my math homework.”

Do all NFL teams now carry a backup QB named “Nate” that no one has ever heard of, just to avoid having to sign Kaepernick? “Sorry, we’d love to sign you, but we don’t have any chairs left. That’s Nate’s chair. See; no collusion here.”

Let’s see. On the one hand, we have “publicly supported NFL players kneeling to protest the National Anthem” (which is inaccurate, of course). On the other hand, we have “at a minimum, tried to date 14- and 16-year-old girls when he was a 30-year-old District Attorney”.

This guarantees we won’t need to worry about hearing anymore from LaVar Ball after Lonzo is traded to the Hornets in year and then slinks away to Europe a couple years after that.

Here’s how you fix this:

I think he looks like Newt Gingrich.

Re: the McAvoy pic. I’m assuming he’s staying swole for his character from Split in Shyamalan’s upcoming Glass.

Are you seriously wondering about this? Do you honestly believe there is a medically necessary treatment done in a hotel room that would involve the touching of an athlete’s genitals, breasts, or buttocks? Or do you think there is a possibility that all of these young women have individually and separately confused…