And the quality of the comments.

Well said. The CBA is designed to fuck the players over in every way possible. The players should be celebrating when it's the owners getting fucked.

You broke the pre-Internet

We were mentioning them in April?

There are no rules for collective nouns, only convention, which as Greg pointed out differs between the States and Europe. If the collective noun is singular, I tend to use the singular form of the verb. But no one on this or other sites is doing it wrong.

So...you're saying Spain needs to hire Greg Popovich?

Gwynn was the exception to the SABRmetric rule that, in general, hitters can't really control where they hit the ball. Gwynn turned that axiom on its head — his career BABIP was .341, which is insane, and cannot be completely explained by his beating out groundballs early in his career (Rickey Henderson's career BABIP…

A. You're allowed to use curse words here without censoring them. Your mom's not here to yell at you. Fuck. Shit. Bitch. See that?

Fun fact: the Spurs are the first team since the 2003-2004 Pistons to win the NBA championship without a player in the top 20 in PER. Duncan was 21 this season. The NBA is still a superstar league, but it wasn't this year.

(whoosh)

Does anyone have any predictions on the fallout if an important player from either the English or Italian side tears an ACL?

And let's say someone invents a computer that can account and explain the interactions of every single molecule in the field of play, luck still exists even then. Unless quantum-computer robots are playing the game, no athlete will have control over the circumstances that led to the puck sliding to a stop in a pile of…

If we're using other words, you're being obtuse. You're saying that Melo signing with the Heat eliminates competitive balance in the league, when competitive balance in the NBA has been an absolute myth for the last 30 years. Superstars have clustered together on NBA teams for decades.

You're shitting me right? The last time the Bucks were in the finals was 1974, their last championship was 1971. That strawman 11-year old you conjured up doesn't give a shit if Carmelo signs with the Heat or not, because it doesn't make any difference to his team's chances, and he or she wasn't even born the last…

I love when the assholes that the author talks about actually show up in the comments with absolutely zero sense of irony or self-awareness.

I don't think this is really a fair summary of the game. Two of the Kings goals, the 1st and 3rd, could be characterized as fluky — yes, the 3rd came on a 2-on-1 rush, but the Kings totally fucked it up and got a good result. Meanwhile, the Rangers outshot the Kings 2-1 on the game and absolutely dominated the 2nd…

I really worry that you're right after reading this article. Here's a wild idea: hire Neil Huntington. He had a similar hand dealt him with a couple superstar caliber players to build the Pirates around, and he had success last year filling out the roster with low cost reclamation project type guys. Also, baseball and…

Let me assure you, Will, the content has been shitty for well before the past month.

Just checking — this is a joke, right?

I blame the coffee currently clogging my sinuses on you, sir.