Stephen Colbert pointed out that Trump’s public disclosure of meeting yesterday included a meeting the “Prime Minister of Normay”. Colbert speculated this is all part of the WH staff’s efforts to keep Trump from fucking things up: having him meet with imaginary leaders of imaginary countries. So it would make sense…

Jeff, you need to look at NCAA eligibility rules. I think you have 5 years to play 4, and the clock starts once you enroll in a college or JC (not once you’ve played a game). I hate to blow up your dreams, but you’re probably going to require special NCAA approval, which means you probably need to be looking at…

We had a similar situation play out in our local high school: a kid, who had a prior juvenile conviction, was credibly accused of a sexual assault on campus during the school day. The administrators slow-rolled the mandated disclosures and investigations and allowed the boy to remain on campus, claiming they were…

LaVar Ball: Those Were the Droids I Was Looking For, I Found Them, And Everything That Happened After That In Those Damn Movies Was Fake.

This is the boxscore line:

But the Marlins play 19 games per season against divisional rivals in markets nos. 1, 4, 7, and 10. Those 19 games can’t be televised because they’re basically Triple-A exhibition games; that’s a 12% reduction in available games. Accepting a 12% loss in value before a contract even begins to run is just bad business.

The value of sports franchises basically always goes up because there is always another rich asshole who thinks owning a sports team makes him look cool and that his success in (fill in the industry) means he will be inherently successful in everything and how hard can running a (fill in a sport) team be, really?

On the one hand, I feel bad for anyone who is denied a chance to achieve a sport’s goal to which they’ve devoted their life, so I feel bad for Ashley Wagner.

Is the consensus that LaMelo was destined for, at best, a mediocre college career but that LiAngelo was considered potentially as good (or better) than Lonzo?

I love these kind of responses to horror. We need more people with Otter’s perspective on the world:

Of all the major team sports, basketball is the most dependent on “fit”: its not the sum of talent as much as it is how the various parts work together.

There was a cartoon in the New Yorker once that showed two scientists talking in front of a blackboard that contained a dense, very complicated looking equation, the last element of which (before the equal sign) was a box in which was written “Then a miracle happens.” The one scientists says to the other, “This part…

“you have treat conference championship games as the defacto first round.”

“No, the only good answer here is also the obvious one: expand the playoff.”

I’m not sanguine about either Vlad or Hoffman getting in.

Manny is just not going to happen because of the PEDs. Removing PEDs from that context, and Ramirez (along with McGwire, Palmeiro, Sosa, and Sheffield) are absolutely deserving of enshrinement, but unlike Bonds and Clemens (both of whom put up HOF resumes before PEDs), its impossible to disconnect Manny and the others…

Both players should have been flogged for this.

That last drop. Man. I am the furtherest thing from a Browns fan, but that was easily the biggest boof I’ve seen at the professional level in a long, long time. My immediate thought was that he missed it intentionally, like some kind of psychologically fucked-up, “I’d rather be infamous for going 0-16 than just…

Curt Schilling is an atrocious moron. No one should be his friend.

Manfred is just channeling the current management fad of complaining about honest news coverage. Why make the effort to think through reasonable responses to expected tough questions about bad decisions (or, for that matter, just making reasonable decisions in the first place) when you can just blame the messenger…