Engagements rings and diamonds in general are a marketing scheme and you’re a sucker if you fall for it. The end.

“Cremains”? I’m sorry for your loss and all, but get the fuck out of here with that shit.

Start freelancing, son!

Basketball drafts about 60 guys a year. Football drafts about 210. Unless you’re among the 10 or so most gifted athletes in the world, the NFL offers you way, way better odds.

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising was an armed resistance action carried out by Jews. They managed to kill a hundred or so German soldiers, SS officers, and Polish collaborators; in retaliation, the Germans cordoned off the ghetto and burned it, block by block, to ash. 13,000 Jews were either killed in combat or burned to…

But isn’t camo gay now, too?

Most of sports reporting is actually business reporting - contracts and money and negotiations - rather than on what actually happens in games and matches. This is because there’s actually very little of interest about the outcome of most sporting events, because by the law of large numbers they are usually simply…

“We were robbed!” is always a more appealing element of fandom than “we got one further round in the playoffs before having our asses handed to us by an actually good team.”

Instant replay isn’t magic, though. Plenty of times the answer is still ambiguous, either because the perspective isn’t good or the focus isn’t sharp, or because the rules themselves aren’t really clear. Is he controlling the ball or does he merely have a hand on it? Was that a football move or an involuntary twitch?…

What are the odds he actually blew all that cash on drugs and hookers?

The Arkestra, duh.

Where will new boxing fans come from? Probably from watching the fight in a bar or at a friend’s place.

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.