Um, duh?

The IOC’s corruption is much less systematic and involves a much smaller amount of money in general. They’re really bush league by comparison.

I think you’re selling smaller national federations short - those people don’t want a corrupt federation either, but as with fans and FIFA itself they are powerless to change anything. Actually, in a sense they’re even worse off because their own leagues and players aren’t worth enough money to be viable independently…

Wonder-Man = Super Charlie Brown

The funny thing is, teen parties only cross the line to real danger because all the parental rules mean they’ll get in trouble if they actually are honest. Part of this is a public policy problem - punishments for parents who condone underage drinking - but most of it is cultural. I lived in Germany for a while and I…

Hippos are known to kill enraged big cats a lot more often than vice versa.

Too many people equate activity with competence. Chip Kelly was making all these trades that made no sense but some fans believed that meant he had a plan and were willing to trust. Of course he probably did/does have a plan, but that doesn’t mean it’s a good one. Napoleon had a plan for conquering Russia, after all.

This has to just be a publicity stunt by the Yankees, right? Like if you really don’t want to pay him the bonus, you just bench him or get rid of him. The only reason you play him is if you want controversy to erupt and you dominate the sports news cycle.

This past year I’ve heard for the first time of people boycotting the NFL because of the league’s handling of brain injuries and domestic violence. AFAIK that’s unprecedented - people who want to watch a sport giving it up because they hate the company purveying it. It’s probably not a problem for the NFL yet but that…

This are what the best team in the world look like.

I look forward to hearing you explain how your family are doing.

The worst experience of my life was dislocating my knee at 17. For $16 million, I’d do it again.

But that’s sort of my point - you have to be really short-sighted to think possibly winning one match with an injured player is worth the risk of probably losing more matches later because you lost a key player to a brain injury.

Why unfortunately? Do you think the majority of managers are actually any good?

If using one substitution is a bigger concern than possibly losing one of your highly talented professionals long term, possibly forever, then you have no business running a professional sports team.

Almost all of our laws and jurisprudence on determining parenthood comes from the pre-DNA era, to say nothing of gamete donation, surrogacy, and everything else. So far we’ve muddled through with precedents and such, but actual reality is getting further and further away from the world which laws attempt to regulate.

Calling the culinary abortions they serve “subs” is an insult to the American tradition of the big-eating working man. A sub, or a hoagie, or a hero, or whatever you call it is supposed to be a monster of a sandwich. Half a pound of meat and cheese at least. The kind of thing you eat in between four-hour stretches of…

Craig has actually talked about this and it’s part of the reason he left - his mockery of the late-night format eventually became the late-night format. Blandness is almost inescapable.

I don’t know about anyone else, but I do it solely to piss you off. I don’t even like soccer, but I hate you more than I hate soccer.

They’re largely based on what kind of diet it would be required for the millions of overweight and obese Americans to lose weight without otherwise changing their lifestyle, which is probably even more stupid.