A civilization in which the moral standard is based simply on being alive is hard-pressed to call itself civilized.

There comes a point in time in the advancement of a society in which not causing bodily harm is not a significant enough differentiatior in weighing the morality of an individual's actions. Maybe Irsay gambled the physical safety of other random motorists one time; Sterling gambled the safety, stability, and…

He's a wizard with the ball at his feet, and likes to cut in from the left side onto his right foot to curl shots or crosses into the box, as in this spectacular goal. For Portugal, though, Ronaldo occupies the left wing, so Nani moves to the right. In theory, the defense's preoccupation with stopping Ronaldo should…

Merry Meeting John Harbaugh

When are we going to see Cotto vs. Golovkin?

Suarez: /reads post

Thanks, Dave. I think we can safely say that however big Platini is, Jean Francois Larios is at least a little bigger.

Lifelong FIFA fan here to the point of being able to rattle off Executive Committee members from Burundi, past presidents of the Seychelles Football Federation, etc. One factoid I'll never have access to: Biggest weiner in the board room? My sleeper picks are Michel 'Moose Knuckle' Platini and Scandalous Sepp Blatter.…

The only part of this that offends me are the jokes that didn't land.

Good point Ms. Campbell. The democrats or as I like to call em the Democats because they are just some Washington fat cats (no offence to fat people) havent brought a lunch pail to a hard days work in multiple generations kind of like there the Browns starting QBs.

Today's addition to the "Blind squirrels finding a nut" file... There's probably not gonna be a Triple Crown winner under Obama.

That wasn't the purpose of Van Halen's M&Ms rider.

Also working in Uruguay's favor? The last time the World Cup was held in Brazil, in 1950, the Uruguayans upset the heavily-favored hosts in the final.

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I can't stop listening to this mashup and I hate myself for it:

This is pretty deceptive because it doesn't handle non-native names correctly. Just as non-American names get anglicized, so do other countries. So while "Boateng" may be an Akan name with two syllables, German defender Jerome Boateng pronounces his name with three.

Jimmy Buffett is going to get grouped into the country category, but it works (ignore that this video is some guy's family slide show):

Actually, I guess the better question is "How much of the white/black/hispanic population in the country lives in Miami vs Cleveland?" I imagine it wouldn't track perfectly, because Dwyane Wade was already a fan-favorite in Miami when LBJ came to town; presumably he did not covert the entire Miami fanbase into…

Reuben, can you grab the demographic numbers for Cleveland and Miami as a proxy for either team's fanbase? I wonder how much of this is explained by his local market fanbase's demographic makeup.

Your characterization of the UFC fan demographic is about as off as your decision to include "electric-blue pee-paint"