I’ve known enough elite athletes to know that it’s true. The athletes that push themselves in training beat the ones that only push themselves in competition.

Japan had basically no natural resources to speak of.

Mayo actually has a really long shelf life because of the acids it contains.

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 glimpse into a future that nobody asked for.

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.

Generally, when you get into the 10s of millions, it doesn’t matter. :)

When you get into the 10s of millions it really doesn’t matter.

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.

But that’s what makes him the perfect comic book villain. In a medium where everything is subject to the whims of the current creative team, despite all the emphasis on canonicity and continuity, it’s handy to have a villain that can brawl or shoot lasers or manipulate others because he disdains fighting, without…