You’ve got a point: guys like Tom Izzo focus exclusively on their area and not everyone is always prepared to speak publicly about every issue. But you’re giving Izzo way too much leeway.

So the Republicans will give the troops NFL football (which disrespects them, remember?) but won’t guarantee their pay? The Republicans hate the troops.

In 2018 America, a Nick Foles v. Blake Bortles Super Bowl is what America needs. Well, maybe not “needs” so much as “deserves” . . .

The perpetuation of the myth of Trump’s amazing ability to negotiate is just about the most aggravating thing about our world today (and I say that with full acknowledgement of how many aggravating things currently exist in our world). Dude isn’t a good negotiator so much as he’s an exhausting negotiator. His sole…

I was kind of using the Koch Bros. as a place-holder for all the Republican overlords, but you’re absolutely right.

“Democrats introduced a bill to guarantee military pay during the shutdown, but that did not pass.”

The moment someone mentions the “air” in a political argument, you know you’re dealing with someone who is, at best, not serious.

No, that’s THE argument. In a negotiation where one side holds all the power and they fail to achieve their goal, that’s a loss.

While I absolutely agree with you that the blame for this lays solely at the feet of the Republicans, I have so little faith in the current Democratic leadership that I’m convinced that Trump will be able to use this to great advantage in the upcoming mid-term elections.

“The relationship between player fans and team is irretrievably broken.”

Short answer: Tonya Harding deserves no sympathy for her behavior as a part of the Kerrigan affair. She does deserve sympathy for being raised in a shitty environment that, at least in part, formed her shitty adult decision-making. But, not to go all Republican on this, many people have overcome equally shitty or even…

Nice Judge Holden reference.

The earlier article today already made this point, but the Cavs as currently constructed are not competitive with the best teams in the league. The Warriors are probably on a whole different level than everybody else, but the delta between the Cavs and the Celtics, Raptors, and Houston is appreciable, while that…

As much as I basically agree with the players that officiating in the NBA has reached all-time lows (and that is saying something), players’ constant bitching about missed calls is pathetic. The NBA needs to lay down the law: bitch about missed calls twice (or three times or whatever) and you’re gone. Implement the…

The NBA has always been the most inconsistently and poorly officiated major sports league; bad calls loom larger in football, but NFL refs and MLB umps are almost always right and call their games with an internal consistency that the NBA only dreams of. The fact that stars get calls that scrubs (and rookies) don’t…

Why are you saying its those four?

What happened to Marcus Williams is that no one know how to tackle anymore. Rather than ending a play with an effective but pedestrian tackle to the midsection, defenders throw their body at a ball-carrier in the belief that F=MA and that force causes big hits that (1) may separate the ball from the carrier and (2)…

It is rare that we vicariously experience depression: in mentally healthy individuals, exposure to other’s misfortune usually causes gratitude (for what we actually have) or pity (for their sorrow). It is also rare to empathize with someone blessed by fate in all ways but one; we’re just not wired to feel bad for…

I’m pretty sure he’s going to crap the bed next week, but I said the same thing about this week’s game.

What’s even more discouraging than the shot is the body language. I’m assuming this was not a full-speed practice session, but that is one defeated-looking 19 year old.