Hey, I think you’re pretty great and it’s hypocritical for people on this site (of all places - where I’m pretty sure even the staff link to articles they haven’t actually read) to give you shit about it.

It’s probably a classic corner the market strategy. By drafting and hiring all the centers in the NBA, the team can establish a monopoly and then demand whatever they want from other teams that actually have a chance and want to win games.

The problem is that 90% of MLS fans are europhile purists and won’t support anything that makes the game more entertaining and accessible.

What’s more, he’s waving a sign for the league itself. That would be like showing up at a Mets game with a sign that says “America’s Pasttime! Go Rob Manfred!”

I’m sure that announcer is a perfectly pleasant person in real life but the way he pronounces “Ronaldinho” makes me want to Draymond Green him with a brick.

Yeah, this seems like a solution in search of a problem to me.

They weren’t, though. Armstrong and Ullrich got nailed because of outside investigations, Chicken was banned on a technicality, Hejsedal admitted without being caught... and plenty of known prior dopers, swearing up and down they are clean. Of course, they said the same thing before being caught out in the first place.

The moral here is that you can do anything you put your mind to, as long as you have a sizeable inheritance and a stipend from one of the richest and most opaque organizations in the world.

No, I suggested that Wikipedia, due to the fact that anyone can edit it and often the loudest, most persistent voices are the ones whose viewpoints are expressed, is not an authority and should not be cited as such. The fact that it’s been shown to more frequently correct than Britannica is irrelevant in the context…

Who’s in charge of these audience reaction shots?

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There’s a huge social stigma against “adult” content in the US and other English-speaking countries that makes it very hard to make money off of that. Lots of payment processors, hosting providers, cache services, etc, that are based or have a lot of business in the US will simply refuse to deal with sexual content…

No, actually, that’s really not really good enough. If you want to support a claim, you should cite proof that the claim is correct, not that some dipshit that’s friends with a Wikipedia admin agrees with you.

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What might be turning into an advantage, re: having an NBA father, is access to elite shot coaching.

Citing Wikipedia as evidence is a concession that you have none.

The majority of swimming events are 1-2 minutes in duration. That seems to be some kind of sweet spot for viewers, where it lasts long enough to get excited about the impending result but not so long that you get bored.

The competing theory (which I find a bit more credible) is that everyone inside the sport knew what Sandusky was doing, or had heard credible rumors, and didn’t want to put their programs at risk by hiring him (or to make waves by denouncing him). There’s some precedent for that - everyone at the BBC and in the music…

State and local governments are in bed with Penn State board. Did you really think a DA or state attorney general is going to disturb that hornet’s nest?