I wrestled in high school. There was a guy in my weight division, perennial state champ and also at our rival school, who only ever used one takedown. Everyone knew what it was but his movements were so quick and so precise there was literally nothing you could do. Sometimes if you took a very defensive strategy you…

Criticizing the way the team plays is one thing, but it's another to criticize the front office. Players and coaches know that the talent can be good and the strategy can be good but simply not be right for each other, and mediocre players and coaches are generally aware of their mediocrity and don't make their…

I think, actually, people hate Ronaldo more because he plays for Madrid than vice versa (he's nowhere near Zlatan levels of arrogance, for example, and people love Zlatan). Barcelona is basically a bandwagon team - they're rich and successful, so you get to be on the winning side more often than not, but the fact that…

This is sort of what people mean when they say defense wins championships. Manning is a great passing quarterback, I guess the best of all time, but in the post-season you have weeks and weeks to watch tape and figure out the offense's weakness or at least what it's likely to do, and then disrupt those plays. On the…

It's not - that's why a couch buffoon like you is getting paid €20 million to play for Madrid this season, right?

Neymar doesn't put up four goals regularly on international duty, either. This is one time.

He may possibly be the undisputed best player of all time some day. Today, however, is not that day.

Yes, it's always a hoot to read people who've never done a drug write while pretending to be on it.

It's stupid easy to prevent Ebola from being spread:
1. Wash your goddamn hands. With soap and hot water, not anybody else's body fluids.
2. Wear your goddamn latex gloves. The ones that are in every patient room of every hospital in the entire fucking country and most sandwich shops.
3. Change said gloves every time you…

I concur. Not that four throws for an intentional walk is particularly stressful for the pitcher, but I thought it was part of the cost/benefit trade-off for an intentional walk that the pitcher has to make those throws.

The best cheap beer is Budweiser (~$16/case).

The NFL understands modern political communication: it doesn't matter if they actually reduce or prevent any kind of socially problematic behavior, whether it's drugs or domestic violence or dog fighting. What matters to people is that they SEEM to be doing something about it, so viewers can view with an easy…

My guess is that the sorority struck a deal to kick her and her friend out in exchange for there being no penalty against sorority, but that the expulsion was just a formality they didn't stop hanging out with their ex-sorority sisters.