Can't they just graft on a donor leg from one of the other 15 Staal brothers?

Really? We're attempting some #bantz about Liverpool squeaking through the League Cup and the Champion's league when:

This is the network where Chael Sonnen reported on and analyzed his own retirement, and where a reporter (?) apologized to him for having said that he'd failed a drug test, which he'd done.

Wait wait wait wait wait....

Steve Bisciotti's name sounds like someone Pesci's trying to kill. I'll give him this, he's a pretty tough nut to crack - would probably "protect the shield" up to the point where his head's in a vice.

No but did you know that one of them is effeminate and one used to play in the NFL? They really should play up that angle more often.

What You're Not Talking About When You're Talking About Hope Solo

The first incident was a brawl, not the incident Solo is currently charged with.

"This is, in fact, how sexist and racist ideologies work"

Oh, we already know how it works at Gawker, where it's totally cool to leave an unwanted male celebrity sex tape up on your site (Hulk Hogan) while decrying female nude picture leaks as the worst thing that's happened to humanity this century.

Wait — so let me just understand this. Some people are arguing that the Hope Solo case demonstrates a clear-double standard, motivated by political correctness of the most cynical variety, in the treatment of male vs. female domestic abusers. And your response is that the Solo case is TOTALLY different because hey…

Somehow, I'm working "like showing your neck to Dracula" into a conversation that I have today. It will be magisterial.

What that tells me is hardly anyone is watching Outside The Lines regularly, which makes me kind of sad.

If you feel silly about that, name a charity you're fond of and we'll send something their way. This was a great catch, and aside from the underlying story it really showed something about how the press works: Here's ESPN just tossing out an enormous scoop on the biggest story in sports and as far as I can tell no one…

Hah. No, Disney would just annihilate the NFL. They work on a completely different corporate level. The NFL can't get a football team into LA. Disney gets enormous theme parks built in China. IN CHINA. That involves working a system that Goodell couldn't even begin to comprehend.

Because it's fun depicting Roger Goodell as a Jonas brother.

Serious question: Is anyone else getting the feeling that ESPN is starting to be of the opinion "given the money we pay the NFL, we're not the monkey who dances when we're told to — you are, Roger and company"? They've been awfully aggressive with this story....

There is precedence for this:

When Alessandra Stanley writes her autobiography, it should be called "How to Make a Black Woman Angry."

Hey man don't tread on Clint Dempsey