It’s “anthropocentric”, you fucking amateur.

It’s not really an inferiority complex if you’re just inferior, is it?

She says this now, but she said it before, too. She’ll come back in another 10-15 years.

Your death sentence has been commuted to eternity in prison.

Reminds me of people who put disclaimers at the end of e-mails, which are of equally fanciful efficacy.

In general, yes, a club can refuse, but it’s a bad situation for a team to keep a player that wants to leave and is getting offers. The opposite situation, selling a player that would like to stay, is more common, but a player that really doesn’t want to go somewhere else can refuse to sign a contract with the team…

To answer your last question, because the actual salary and contract details are usually a) kept under close wraps, and b) contain a lot of performance bonuses that players’ unions in the US typically forbid. Neymar’s contract was recently leaked, his base annual salary is only €5 million, but he was also guaranteed…

I think doctors generally err somewhat on the side of early death, because a prognosis like that tells you how much time you have to get your affairs settled. You wouldn’t want to think you have three to six months to straighten everything out and then kick it after two weeks, in the middle of changing your will or…

Yeah, and another thing about the First Amendment is that it affords the strongest free speech protections of any country in the world, so exercising your First Amendment rights to make an anti-American statement is about the dumbest shit imaginable. You won’t get prosecuted for it, but pretty much every thinking…

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.

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.