I think there are things that could be done to improve the laws that wouldn’t have the same debilitating effect that things like trying to clarify the catch rule in the NFL have had.

Remember, Billy’s explicitly stated position is that unfairness is ok if it only fucks over Spurs fans, as long as he gets his rocks off.

The fact that this is still grey after eight stars leads me to believe that Deadspin hates dissent.

Yes, I recall the halcyon days of yesteryear when there were no weekly controversies in soccer based on disputed handballs and offsides calls.

It’s the same as last week, when VAR disallowed a gorgeous Man City goal because it decided that Raheem Sterling’s shoulder was offside by a couple centimeters.

this take is wrong and bad. All VAR is doing is exposing how poorly written many of the laws of the game are. Keep VAR, change the laws.

The farther I get from my decision to not pursue a PhD in order to teach, the better I feel about it.

Both this and the article published in the aftermath of the injury feel like concern trolling from Deadspin. These aren’t kids being manipulated by “rub some dirt on it and walk it off” high school or even college coaches. These are grown-ass men who have both agency and the means to get the information needed to make …

Don’t forget about the immortal Ron Necciai, who once struck out 27 batters in some hot Appalachian League action back in 1952. If ole Ron can do it, there’s no reason that today’s highly paid hurlers can’t. (Aside from the fact that no one will be allowed to throw the bare minimum of 81 pitches necessary to…

So Deadspin is serving up Stupid Takes to counter the Hot Take Industrial Complex?

Drew has a mishap adding a personal addition to the next “What Did We Get Stuck In Our Rectums Last Year” post.

Your coverage of domestic violence in sports is second-to-none. That said, I see a common thread in each of your stories—dissatisfaction with the leagues’ policies, investigations, and/or implementations.

That was a significant one when we moved from Chicago to the suburbs. The local elementary school was not one with a sterling reputation, so we paid tuition at a Lutheran school in a nearby suburb, about a 10-minute drive from our house. The other issue for us was the size of yards and the feeling of always being on…

This is a fairly common injury in rugby, and the main reason for the second row in the scrum to wear headgear or tape their ears back.

As a soccer ref that now avoids youth soccer like the plague, I’d like to see all refs boycott for a few weeks. Let parents and coaches take on the officiating, and see how well it goes.

Because I completely disagree that lack of relegation is the reason that youth development isn’t strong enough. Young players have many more choices of sports here than in Europe or elsewhere: how many of these kids are gonna pick up baseball and football and basketball and hockey or whatever instead of or in addition…

I don’t understand the part about the “positive incentives.” So there are more positive incentives for a top team in the top tier to win the league because a team at the bottom is being relegated? The players of the NT population might get relegated on occasion, but they aren’t going to stick around in the NASL when…

Ah, the old “the MLS sucks because it doesn’t have relegation” argument. How on earth does the lack of relegation hold back the MLS or the national team? I don’t think that relegating, say, Chicago and Houston after last season and promoting Sacramento and Red Bulls II is suddenly going to make them both better.

Also probably the only sport that tells the Ref “Enh, just wear a different coloured shirt.”

I was an NFL fan until I married an Irishwoman and my in-laws introduced me to Rugby. (Go Leinster!) One of them told me he knew I’d fall in love with it because Rugby is what American Football would be if American Football was a sport.