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 . . .

Every time I see Trump adviser Stephen Miller, I think, “That’s the biggest quark of all time.”

Like the original poster to whom I was responding, you are trying way too hard to be counter-offended by this. While you are correct that “Asian heritage” covers a vast geographical area, the term “high cheekbones that spoke to the strong Asian heritage on one side of her family” does not cover the same geographical…

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.

Because your pedantic assertion that Portman is Asian is otherwise idiotic. I was giving you the benefit of the doubt, but based on your responses to other comments, I’m getting the sense you were not being facetious and are, instead, being idiotic.

I’m assuming you are being facetious?

Dude. The whole article is proof of the bias. Garland and the film makers (its a collaborative process, particularly on the money end) cast white actors as characters that are expressly non-white. That’s not an artistic choice, like setting Macbeth in 1920's Chicago.

That’s why I think his protestations are mostly bullshit. It’s practically malpractice to not account for future events in an existing multi-part story, even if its just to prevent Dumbledore from hitting on McGonagall.

You’re missing the point: racism isn’t just committed by racists. We are all complicit in unfair race-based decision-making just by participating in the status quo and not working to correct it. Alex Garland is probably a fine human being, but his casting decision perpetuates a system that actively suppresses…

While the idea of whitewashing insults me in the general sense, I do have some sympathy for film makers on the subject.

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.