It’s sad that this needs to be written, but let’s face it - if you are the type of person to do this in the first place, you don’t really care about anything the article said. “Of course all the attention will be on me, I just got engaged! That’s how it should be!”

The interesting facet of this isn’t just the dozen-odd people actually under indictment. It’s that the Department of Justice will be able to subpoena any and all of FIFA’s records relating to anything under investigation and enter them into evidence. That is likely to include, among very many other things, the…

The basic answer is history. For about a century in US history, fighting on land with soldiers and fighting in ships at sea were two completely separate things, so they were organized as separate government departments. The army essentially never deployed overseas, which is why the ships’ gunners, the marines, had…

Gooddell is toothless and powerless in court. Everyone, possibly excepting him, knows that. The whole point of the commissioner system in US sports is that it’s better to one have jerk, however arbitrary, making decisions than to leave it as a free-for-all among owners and players navigating the legal system.

This is true, but I think it speaks volumes about the players’ view of the NFLPA that they don’t really trust the union to take care of it. Money you earn is yours (after taxes, at least), whereas guaranteed benefits from the union and the League will only stick around until they are negotiated away. If you take a pay…

Billy is the worst.

There is so much bullshit bro science in the comment thread I don’t know what to do. If someone doesn’t have an M.D. after their name and a medical license they stand to lose if they mislead you, do not believe anything they tell you about safety and dosage of anabolic steroids (or, for that matter, any performance…

Fiction - the whole point of anabolic steroids (along with plenty of other PEDs, like EPO) is that your body can’t distinguish between the synthetic and natural versions.

UW has 20 teams - after cutting men’s and women’s swimming in 2009. That doesn’t sound like “adding more sports and more athletes makes money” to me.

I’m confused.

Oh, sure. Just go ahead and play with my all my insecurities at once like that. No biggie; I wasn’t using them.

This is bullshit. If this were really true, colleges and universities would be falling all over themselves to add athletic programs for women and men alike (since nothing about this analysis is unique to women or women’s sports). But, in general, they don’t, because it doesn’t make financial sense.

Unions in Japan tend to be strongly leftist - many are affiliated with the Communist and Socialist parties of Japan, and they are sometimes seen as having questionable motives.

What’s frustrating is that a creative team with any sense of creative could play with that, have debates about whether to call her Super-Girl or Super-Woman or Super-Lady or Power-Girl or whatever be a recurring theme in the show. You could explore issues of media representation, feminism(s), and so on safely and…

How much money does News Corp need? It’s not like he’s shaking down the Widows and Orphans fund.

They got everyone to take a pay cut because the show wasn’t doing as well in its primary timeslot; fair enough. But I suspect that things like Netflix subscriptions, overseas rights, and other things are handled under separate accounting, and now account for a much larger portion of the money the show makes. The…

It sure is. But I’m not the one you need to convince, and you’re going to have a hard time persuading the people you do need to convince if they think you’re a self-righteous outsider telling them what to do, or in such people.

You don’t need to convince me. You need to convince Muriel Bowser that not giving in to fan prejudice is worth losing the only platform with which she might be able to make a difference.

That’s very admirable of you, but don’t forget that your fellow fans support keeping the logo by a margin of something like 30 points.

What do you call someone that acts like a total homer, only is neither from nor lives in the team’s locale? If there isn’t a word for it, I nominate “Billy”.