Christ, are you really that naive? Many FBS schools run athletics at a “loss”. The only way that they can do that given the enormous revenue they pull in is by paying themselves outrageous salaries and building bigger and bigger facilities.

Except... he realized immediately that he had screwed up and took his punishment without a word. Not the behavior of someone who knows nothing.

Yes but in baseball there isn’t an expectation that people can take home the balls, not to mention a constant battle for said balls. Your instinct is to go for the available ball first and think about it afterwards. It is stupid to equate this with basketball (or the theater) because the context is completely…

This is exactly why we have antitrust legislation. The barriers to entry are too high at this point and the league effectively works as a cartel. Fortunately, from the perspective of major US sports leagues, they got antitrust exemptions that have allowed them to become the behemoths they are today. It is just not…

Except that in any other field of work, a cartel like the NFL would not be allowed to operate as it does - colluding to drive down wages and using the salary cap as a cudgel to beat their employees with. This is about as far from the ideal of capitalism as you can get - it is an oligarchy.

Except the salary cap itself is an artificial construct designed to maintain profits... I mean parity. These are massively profitable enterprises which are built at least in part around the idea of paying their employees as little as they can get away with. The American Dream, really I suppose.

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Having now watched a compilation of him trying to pull off that trick in competitive matches over and over again, I can totally understand the guy who mashed him in that clip. He is lucky he didn’t get killed by someone. In one of the clips, a defender nearly takes his head off.

I don’t know. The extremely cynical part of me thinks that once he ends up in a big name program and is himself trying to hang on to players who want to leave with the last coach, he will rapidly change his tune.

Well, he is a very fat rabbit.

Haven't refrigerated butter for 6 years. Always have a stick on the counter. Never goes bad unless we go away for more than a few days. Nothing worse than trying to spread hard butter on soft bread.

Who is it?

I’d love to see a compilation of crappy half-court misses

He’ll get drafted but it may hurt his stock and cost him some money. I mean, all he had to do was not drink and drive for a few weeks. Just until the draft.

This is not true. The most recent, well performed research suggests that there is a small increase in risk - in the region of 1 extra death for every 200 births. You have to account for the fact that home births are generally lower risk pregnancies a priori.

Absolutely. Not only that but the guys playing in those crappy leagues take their lead from the top divisions.

One of the most irritating things about watching soccer is the crap that the referees are given by players and managers. Doesn't have to happen but it is tolerated for some stupid reason.

That same report says that there were 1400 head injuries in NZ in the year that they studied, out of 145000 players (1%). There were 228 concussions in the NFL in the 2013 season (in far fewer games, mind you with far less actual playing time per person). Generously saying that there are 80 players per team, that…

It is also important to remember that there are far, far more people playing rugby worldwide than American Football (approximately 4.5 million vs, 1.5 million at most, being generous). Also, most of the American Football players are playing at high school and college level whereas there are many, many adult,…

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