“Run, n****r, like there’s a bucket of fried chicken in the end zone.”

Louis CK made this exact point in a joke:

After both SB losses I couldn’t watch ESPN or read any sports sections for a solid month. Had the Hawks won XLIX on the strength of that fucking catch, I'd still be on embargo.

Both are wearing more than 1 shirt. I’m just, uh, speculating here but one benefit of wearing multiple shirts is that the top layer can be discarded when you're escaping after doing some dirt.

I grew up in Dorchester and I have more friends who root for teams other than the Pats than otherwise. Mostly because we were so trash growing up that people gravitated to teams that were actually good, but the Steelers weren’t good either and people still root for them over the Pats. It's weird.

Pulisic to the Revs. Even though he's half the player and man Charlie Davies was, we need strikers

“Catch that? The NFL, maybe not understanding what probabilities are, assumed there were shenanigans if a “probable” player—who, by the rules, should have sat out 25 percent of the time—did not play.”

8 people are required to be deactivated every week. Under this new policy, if a healthy player is deactivated due to game planning reasons - even a 10th OL or 5th RB - the league could reject any explanation for whatever reason they want to and impose any discipline they'd like. This is chaos, society can't function…

Barry misses an obvious angle in this writeup: the league giving itself yet another avenue to enforce arbitrary and capricious discipline. If any player not listed on the injury report doesn’t play for ANY reason, Roger can require the team to forfeit draft picks, pay fines, suit up for a game in yellow leotards, you…

This Gunnar Bentz is also kind of a narc. Another rule of doing stupid shit is not to be in the employ of markass snitches.

Drew - do you write and compile the WYTS previews in advance, a few teams at a time, or do you write them one at a time the day before they go up? If one at a time, when do you start to run out of steam and begin mailing them in? I ask because I've been disappointed in your level of bile towards the Patriots the past…

Beer pong requires less skill and coordination than shuffleboard, which is the amateur version of curling. But beer pong with paddles, AKA Dartmouth style pong, is absolutely a sport.

Can you hurry up and do the Pats already?

Worth noting that he slipped to the fourth round exactly for this reason. Everyone was gushing about his character and intelligence while I was reading his injury report and wondering if he’d ever make it to a bye week.

Honey dew melon is an unfairly maligned fruit salad component

The USMNT question is interesting. Would have loved to have seen Claudio Reyna play behind Dempsey and McBride with Donovan out on the wing. They’d ultimately be let down by their defending, but they’d definitely create dangerous scoring opportunities instead of looking like a bunch of third graders against Argentina.

“In a very hurried and haphazard-like fashion, I saw this man randomly scurry through a portion of the parking lot where our police cars are parked,’’ Foscaldo wrote. “This man suddenly made a ‘b-line’ for our police station’s rear door.’’

The NBA on NBC was the greatest sports broadcast package ever, and Sunday Night Football is better than the Fox, CBS, and ESPN counterparts.

Beyond playing in Europe, it’s also not going to happen until poor people can play in the academy system. Top flight international players have the same stories and backgrounds as NFL and NBA players, where only 1/10 guys are like Grant Hill.

I’ll tell you this, I’ve had enough of Bradley. He’s a remedial DMF who looks world class against Trinidad & Tobago and Serbia and that’s it. While Klinsmann lacks the ability to impart a tactical identity, I wholeheartedly agree with his bias against MNT who opt to play in MLS when they have other options.