The NRA has condemned his implication that having an Arsenal around you doesn’t actually make you safer.

Spain is fine. I know they jacked up flight and hotel prices, but it’s a 2-ish hour flight from London/Liverpool to Madrid, and you could take the rail if you want to spend more time/money. But yeah, Baku is such a dumb place to hold a final even without the human rights considerations.

Perhaps when choosing suitable hosting sites “we can’t guarantee we won’t commit ethnically-motivated violence” could be seen as a dealbreaker? Just throwing it out there.

Fans have been priced out. As of yesterday Arsenal hadn’t sold out of their allotment, and Chelsea sold only about 600 tickets of their 3k! Someone pointed out as well that UEFA have directly gone against the interests of one of their member nations, Armenia. Completely shameless display from UEFA.

Think this is bad? Baku is hosting Euro 2020 games including a quarterfinal.

Shocking that a money-driven decision by one of soccer’s international governing bodies to partner with a despotic government ended up hurting the product on the field (and with only each team only taking 3,000 allocated seats in a 60,000+ capacity stadium, the TV product too).

“If your name gets mentioned in trades, don’t take it personally,” says the guy doing the mentioning.

I love the idea that Magic was gonna spend three seasons grooming somebody for a job that Magic would have only ever had for three seasons at that point. 

As a lifetime Blazers fan, I feel the need to clarify one point: the 99-00 Blazers are NOT part of the Jail Blazers Era. That team was Scottie Pippin, Detlef Schrempf, Brian Grant, Arvydas Sabonis and a host of good players and veterans with high character. Sheed got onto more trouble on court than off, and he and…

So all this time my wife has been trying to pass a drug test?

Higuain had 22 Champions League goals in his 2 seasons with Juve (he had 48 with Real Madrid, didn’t play in CL with Napoli).

Though in this case, Billy’s point isn’t really bullshit! The media, supporters and the club (112 million euro transfer fee!) all expected Juventus to exceed their baseline performance of cruising to the Scudetto and advancing to the CL knockout stage. In retrospect, it’s insane, but most people seemed to buy into it.

Juve’s addition of Cristiano Ronaldo in the summer understandably ramped up expectations

...this is how Drew hurt his head, isn’t it?

Eagerly awaiting for the next Deadspin Video:

“The Time Dave McKenna Jumped Like a Horse”

I’ll be impressed when she does this at Santa Anita.

Is this a sex thing? This seems like a sex thing. 

A member of the Deadspin staff who shall go unnamed claims to be an experienced horse jumper with the ability to clear a picnic table like Kirstine

Pferd frau fliegt wie ein vogel mit den flügeln (Update Sechs)!!!!!!!

How has “Infinite Tucker” avoided the NOTY bracket? That’s an 80-grade name