I, for one, look forward to Steven Adams appearing in the State Farm commercials.

“As the New York Times’ Astead Herndon pointed out on Twitter, the CBC doesn’t necessarily have the moral high ground here”

I made the mistake of going to the comments under a tweet about her White House visit comments. It was predictably bad, but I did discover a good term for all the flag-humpers and anthem worshipers...

Ah yes, the country that declares the Men’s World Cup trophy (created by a Frenchman and awarded by an organization based in Switzerland) is “coming home” anytime they string a couple of victories together is schooling us on arrogance. Got it.

I have no problem with this. They aren’t hiding the money or putting it on the books for 2050. It’s not like they got someone’s dad a 5-million a year job with their sponsor or parent company. Both teams’ spending over two years will be the same, so it is following the spirit of financial fair play. It reminds me of…

Morgan, at the moment.. sure.

England manager Phil Neville saw neither of these as viable understandings of what happened and instead decided to use his postgame interview to chide Cameroon—who, remember, England had just beaten by three goals—for not keeping their composure.
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Neville could at least be justified in his frustrations if his…

...the poor implementation of VAR that has become a staple of this tournament to get to them...

Fuck though. 

This idea that Cameroon’s players can’t be held responsible for controlling their actions and emotions is a bunch of condescending and frankly racist bullshit that would be heavily decried on Deadspin if it was written outside of Deadspin.

use his postgame interview to chide Cameroon—who, remember, England had just beaten by three goals—for not keeping their composure ... he unnecessarily focused on the emotional reactions of his opponents

Really don’t understand the criticism of Phil Neville’s interview.

That is a normal caller. Move on.

Dan, what’s the hate for Izzy!?

I would just like to say that your attempt to compare a rich white fan/owner shoving a player, who had zero interaction with him or his family, because he felt entitled to do so, to a well known black GM being stopped by a cop, supposedly because his visible credentials weren’t visible enough, and then allegedly being…

With a nice side helping of every rando commentator not trying to understand some of the basics of the biggest soccer tournament in the world, like “goal differential.” Becuzz we’re Ameruhcannn!!!! and soccer is communism.

Scoring in a World Cup is personal as much as it is for the benefit of the team. Mallory Pugh scored the eleventh goal, and it was her first ever goal in a World Cup (in her first World Cup game). Alex Morgan tied a USWNT record. It’s always a big deal to score in a World Cup, and these players are allowed to…

Um, you absolutely get to pull your goalie for an extra attacker on a delayed penalty

Kawhi has a “Klaw” logo which has a “brand value” in the tens of millions of dollars? I...was not aware of this, like, at all. Somehow I completely missed every previous mention of this, uh, logo. I googled it and it’s cool and all, definitely never seen it before in any coverage of this generationally-amazing player.…

I saw one where they added an audible “bong” because one of the contestants was blind, so I don’t think that’s a normal thing.