This really should’ve been a “Meanwhile, at Anfield...” joke.

Norway really don’t have a chance... they’re not even wearing women’s shirts.

Came for the footy talk, stayed for the grammar lesson by provincial Americans who don’t give a shit about soccer.

Nah, fuck that. If your country doesn’t have enough large stadiums to accommodate the World Cup profitably, then you don’t get the World Cup. You want to apply for the World Cup? Prove you have the 6? 8? 10? stadiums of sufficient capacity. If you want to build a shiny new one for the World Cup, great, but that…

India has a bunch of 50,000+ seat stadiums, many already accommodating soccer. I’m guessing you can’t retrofit a cricket stadium for soccer, but even without retrofitting, it’s unlikely they’d need much in the way of stadiums. They’d need more infrastructure, of course, but India already needs that; that’s the kind of…

That’s not true. Plenty of AFC nations would be able to host with minimal infrastructure changes.

His offensive game is certainly the equivalent of Drew’s polo shirt.

It’s still more than a little strange that Costas and Patrick seem to think that their mere existence and association with Jenner means there is something crass and exploitative about giving a retired athlete an ESPY award for doing a very brave thing in public.

Wow, you have managed to divorce correlation and causation in a most excellent fashion.

Click the link. The rule is clear: pitcher indicates which arm he will throw with when a new batter comes to the plate, then the batter decides which side to hit from. The pitcher is then allowed to switch throwing arms during the at-bat (“once during the at-bat”), but may not switch back.

It does feel a bit like sour grapes that we’re going to tear apart FIFA, but keep letting this asshole skate.

Since 2007, Brazil had a World Cup runner-up and quarterfinal, Olympic silver and quarterfinal, and two Copa America championships.

Feel free to point out which first-half Japanese chances I’ve overlooked. I watched it when it re-aired on Fox Sports Tuesday.

First: Where in my post did I compare them to Spain?

But does it really make a difference when that 1 in 20 paid off and they won when it mattered?

Sorry, but this is bullshit. Which of their tactics were so fine? Repeatedly failing to threaten in the box? Pretending desperate clearances were long balls to their slow strikers? Getting gashed in defense by USA’s much faster and physical forwards? Letting Rapinoe and O’Reily run roughshod along their flank and…

We always talk about NFL turnover, but NBA turnover is way worse.

Not enough discussion of how good Hannah Wilkinson is.

I don’t watch the show regularly, but that was an episode I can’t forget. Holy shit, fuck those people.

Unless you’re planning on being in a footrace with Greg, in which case you’d better wear jeans or he will not admit defeat.