I’ve got to believe that the Cardinals and the Bills have the most incentive to do this. Neither is going to end up in Darnold/Rosen range, so they’re left with possibly getting to gambles like Mayfield or Allen; even those two may be off the board by the time the Cards and Bills pick. Cousins is what Cousins is, but…

Basically, the NBA has become the Premier League, without the risk of relegation. Five or six teams realistically competing, the rest tanking for a multi-year franchise reset (see: Clippers, L.A.)

I think you’re probably right, and that’s the most depressing thing I can imagine (I’m not even a Clippers fan). It means the NBA is going to become like the Premier League: every year, 5 or 6 teams are playing for the championship, while the rest are just happy to be here. Only, without relegation to the G-League or…

Honest to God: what is the strategy here? I know Griffin is half the player he used to be, but he’s still twice the player Harris and Bradley combined have ever been. Next they’re going to dump Jordan and Sweet Lou* for youth, but if the Griffin trade is any indication “youth” means “attractive salaries we can dump”.…

What the fuck? Did anyone have this in the office pool?

I am not an MSU fan in any way and generally think most major college sports head coaches are borderline assholes without whom the world would be better off. But I’m going to take Izzo’s and D’Antonio’s side here, at least a little bit.

Between you and me, yes, my kids have been (and occasionally continue to be, even though they are all legally “adults”) annoying as fuck.

I don’t care where you stand on Brady personally, but calling a 5-year old names is classic “I-want-this-to-be-about-me” sports/entertainment “interviewer” assholery. Its Jim Rome calling Jim Everett “Chrissy”. Why even go on the air with self-inflated asshats like this?

I bought Mack’s disconcert about Yo-Yo teaching Flint to shoot: when she points out that Flint can handle himself because he’s already killed, Mack says something like, “Yeah, but now he’s starting to enjoy it.” That’s in keeping with Mack as the father-figure (kind of a nice contrast to May as the mother-figure) of…

You know why they let fights happen in hockey? Because the lack of friction on the ice means no meaningful punches land (you’ll notice the refs immediately jumping in to break it up once bodies hit the ice). Two guys expend a lot of energy, it looks like violent things are happening, but, in truth, nothing of…

Isaiah Thomas was never going to be a good fit with the Cavs. He’s a high usage, bad defender who was “the man” on his team (a team who’s success was overblown by the shitty talent in the Eastern Conference). He was brought in as a replacement for the same type of player, only Kyrie was shackled to a subservient role…

George is, obviously, a plus-plus defender, Adams is a good defender, so the delta between the Thunder w/Roberson and w/o Roberson would seem to derive from Roberson compensating for Russell and Carmelo. Since Russell can basically be whatever Russell decides to be at any given moment, I’m thinking this means Carmelo…

I’m not entirely sure what happened in the Nasser case, but there is often a sweetheart relationship between local police, prosecutors, and a university. Simply put, most college towns derive a lot of economic benefit and civic pride from the local university; college towns have a lot in common with the old “company…

Lindsey, I’m sorry you grew up during a time when rampant PEDs rendered MLB something out of EA Sports, but there is so much wrong with your logic here. HOF enshrinement is certainly subjective, but just because a player was a “star” during your childhood doesn’t render them immune to standards of performance and…

ThomasMurphySullivan hits the nail on the head: PEDs primarily affected the users’ competitors who played “clean”. I watched Barry Bonds’s career up close since high school: he was a year behind me at a rival high school and I’ve been a Dodger fan in Giants’ territory my whole life. His path through 1999 was that of a…

Yeah, how is this any different than any one of 20 guys I barbecued with during college?

The way my Gunners have been playing the past two years, we’ll take this and any other cheap goal you want to give us. Even in the - checks notes - Caribou Cup?

Those two fat ball boys are sitting there, thinking, “I could play in the NBA.”

No disrespect to Hoffman, who was a great reliever, but almost no reliever belongs in the HOF. Hoffman played in less than 0.1% of the total innings his teams played during his career. Contrast that with Edgar Martinez, who played in about 70% of his team’s total innings during his career. I don’t think Edgar belongs…

Chris Fowler spends most of his time pimping for college football, fellating Nick Saban while jacking off Urban Meyer, and generally being an odious enabler of a corrupt system built on the unpaid labor of teenagers. Of course he feels that Tennys Sandgren is a “thoughtful guy”.