I would pay extra for a commentatorless broadcast of football matches. The best part of any game is when the commentators just shut the fuck up for a few seconds and you can hear and feel the atmosphere of the stadium. Why is this not a thing?

Watching La Liga you get to see the best and the worst of soccer. The attacking play is brilliant and second to none. The diving and writhing on the ground like they've been shot every time a foul is committed is pathetic.

I have no dog in this fight. Ronaldo appeared to be standing just offside when the initial ball was played in by Benzema.

It was called on Ronaldo for the initial flick. It looked borderline but probably the right call.

Rough day for goalkeepers. There was also a point in the Newcastle-Arsenal game where I think it was a Janmaat shot caromed off the boards behind the goal and smacked David Ospina in the face who dove to stop the initial shot.

Is there any way this wasn't flat out racist?

This decision is made in real time. We're now debating the minutiae of a decision that had to be made in a split second. It's clear to me that the player jumped up and touched a shot that was above the plane of the rim that was going to possibly hit the rim. You can't say definitively that the ball wouldn't hit rim…

Again, from what I can see in the replays, the ball looks like it is headed for the rim. Where it hits is uncertain because it wasn't allowed to hit. What happens after it hits is anyone's guess. I have seen some crazy fucking bounces off of a basketball rim and shots go in that looked like complete bricks. Was…

I'm not going to lie to you, man, that shot looks a little long and to the right. Nevertheless, the more I watch that Vine the more convinced I become that it was going to hit the top of the rim. Maybe not enough to kick it up into the air and allow for a miraculous bounce, but I still can't say for sure that that…

That fucking dress.

It wasn't grazing the front of the iron. It was going to hit the back of the rim. Maybe it catches the top of the back of the rim, at which point it's not inconceivable that it could take a crazy bounce and go in.

From the camera view above the basket in the video above it sure looks like the ball is going to catch rim. If it can catch rim, it has a chance—maybe a remote chance but still a chance—of going in. It happens all the time.

You can't say with 100% certainty that it has zero chance of going in. There are incredibly lucky bounces all the time. Maybe it hits just the right spot on the rim, kicks up and goes in. It's unlikely, but it's possible. You can't touch the ball if it has a chance, no matter how remote, of going in. Otherwise…

You can't seriously be suggesting we begin enforcing goaltending by allowing the players to determine whether a shot has a chance of going in before it has actually had that chance are you?

The ball was headed for the rim. It may or may not have taken an incredible bounce off the rim and gone in. We will never know because the idiot touched it. Obvious goaltending and the right call.

I'd agree for the most part, but I've been impressed with Ospina. The position could stand to be upgraded, but if Julio Cesar was good enough to win the Champions League for Inter, I imagine Arsenal can get by with a less than stellar GK.

Wow, tough crowd. I think it's quite obvious from watching Arsenal this year that what they are missing is Morgan Schneiderlin not more goals. If you put Schneiderlin in the midfield in front of the two center backs, this team is an immediate title contender. He is the ideal fit for Arsenal. He will break up play,…

I happen to agree with you and I'm a CSU alumn. A lot of CSU's wins at the beginning of the season turned out to be not so good by the end of the season. Needed a couple wins down the stretch and they didn't get them.

I read Ken Pomeroy and I think his rankings are useful. But if you're going to use it as a deus ex machina for every debate about who should have made the tournament, you have to be prepared to carry that to its logical conclusion. Therefore I assume you believe that Florida was the biggest snub of Selection Sunday.

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