There are three dangerous gangs in Los Angeles: the Crips, the Bloods, and the LAPD.

It’s a problem in a sport like football, where average careers are short and trending shorter. If you’re 22, you’ve spent the last 8-10 years of your life developing your skills and talents, you may only have 3-5 years to cash in. You don’t get a contract extension, you don’t get free agency. You do still get all of…

I think the Paterno comparison is apt - both were deeply culpable for the systemic problems at their schools, but I’m fairly certain Paterno was axed to help insulate other parties inside and outside the school, including state government. The same is no doubt true of Baylor and Waco. Other higher ups absolutely knew…

Remind me again - which one of us here is so insecure and dissatisfied with life that he has to brag about how much money he earns on a sports blog?

The best part about this question is, there are no wrong answers.

The best response to bad opinions forced on you is “If I wanted your opinion, I’d kill myself, because your opinion is worth less even less than negative my life.”

The joke went so far over your head the Air Force had to escort it to international territory.

Because the cycling community has been carrying out an irrational, decades-long crusade against doping, not cheating, and cheating is practically the European transnational pasttime (see also: F-1, FIFA/IOC host campaigns, Airbus bid tendering, marriages) so they wouldn’t be able to draw a visceral reaction from…

The root of ‘appropriation’ is ‘proper’, as in ‘property.’ The idea that a culture or its expressions can be owned by any person or person or group is way more dangerous, and way more exploitative of minorities and disadvantaged groups, than white people singing in a musical style that originated among black people,…

You vastly overestimate the competence of the police chiefs in violent cities. After all, if they were doing their jobs, their cities wouldn’t be so violent, would they?

Man, I wish Borges was in charge of the NFL.

4,5,4

The IOC is bush-league by comparison. Sure, corruption still happens, but the people involved at least have the decency to keep it between individuals instead of laudering money being the organization’s entire raison d’etre.

Most Sublime Satire of Overseas Sports Journalism (Billy, obvs)

Best Bicycle Kick, all the nominees are not bicycle kicks. Or are kicks performed from a bicycle, or something.

At some point, we also have to admit that the content owners, who know Hollywood is going to do this and don’t care (else they’d have provisions in the license specifically for it), are equally at fault for their creations getting whitewashed.

WADA is terrible and if they all died in one giant bus accident, the world of sport would be better off.

Or you could just pet them.

Nah, an AI character would be able to compute 9000/75 and get 120 hours, which is not “just a few”...

So you think some of this is meant as an off-the-books gift to athletes? “Oh, Ludacris demanded all this stuff and didn’t use, too bad it will just have to get thrown out...”