It’s not about how much you want it on the field, it’s about how much you want it the other 6 days a week.

That’s how soccer reporting works. There’s no room for nuance or luck; if a team wins it’s because they are Good and if they lose it’s because they Suck. Leicester lost and therefore now Suck, Arsenal won and are now Good.

Due to an agent’s mix-up they end up signing Peyton List.

Oh, there are plenty of ways to screw it up. Trying to play hardball in salary negotiations and ends up leaving, or he wants to leave but then they tag him anyway and ends up with an acrimonious relationship with the organization.

I don’t think there’s much of a meaningful difference. Most people look more attractive when they smile, but if you’re one of the people who don’t naturally smile (or fake it all the time to please people), it’s an attractiveness handicap all the same.

Someone should tell Celta that there’s no point in having guys right on the penalty line if they’re just going to stand there when the ball is kicked.

he’s making 10x what he would in the MLS.

Hey, up until the mid-2000s the Human Rights Campaign wasn’t even supporting gay marriage, so you can’t really lay that one all on the Clintons.

The kid gets a free education in exchange for missing free throws, isn’t that enough?!?

It’s a bit more complex than that, I’d say - the rapid expansion of the UK’s university system has produced a lot of professional-class people with working-class backgrounds that support their childhood teams. (With the recent tuition rises, we might expect this trend to reverse itself over the next couple of decades,…

That’s not even a joke - the state was founded by white racial separatists.

A cynic might answer that every “student”-athlete who goes on trial for sex crimes makes the NCAA look bad and calls their very raison d’être into question, so they have a very vested interest in those kids getting the best possible legal representation without asking too many questions.

Coaches complaining that players didn’t show up to an optional shootaround is like your significant other complaining you slept with someone else while you were on a break.

1. There’s no direct relationship, and I’ve heard of teams trying to use the large transfer fee they just paid as an excuse for not paying more salary, but players generally know that if their transfer fee is high, they’re worth a lot of money and make salary demands accordingly. I have heard of a few cases where a…

+1 Volk

Triple double sawbuck

This. I can jump high enough to wave my hand over the center of the hoop, but getting up there with a ball and getting it to go in the hoop is another matter entirely.

I think it’s also worth pointing out that, as much as Leicester is doing things right, the usual suspects are also unprecedentedly bad this season. Chelsea mutinied, Arsenal still don’t have their footing, Man United has rapidly gone from “Haha, they narrowly lost out to their hitherto-unimpressive crosstown rivals in…

I’m criticizing the idea that it’s at all relevant whether or not the premise of a work of fiction can be eventually extended to a contradiction, if that contradiction has no effect on the plot. I mean, never mind the global conflicts; hiding Hogwarts from surveyors, engineers, and remote sensing platforms would…

There’s just so much about the modern world that doesn’t make any goddamn sense if magic secretly existed in the world - so I kind of have to assume that the Potterverse is an alternate universe where much of our own history never happened.