I’m sure the IOC had visions of pearl clutching if a female boxer’s nose exploded on television. This was not a health and safety ruling to be sure.

I don’t think it’s necessarily that headgear can’t help prevent some of that, it’s more that when wearing the gear boxers were more reckless, lead with the head far more, and were far less likely to protect the head during exchanges. The result was boxers wearing headgear more frequently suffered head injuries than…

Seriously, how good, in general, are the Olympic commentators? Not the network shills, but the various experts. Take this dive. She gasped audibly before he’d even left the board, recognizing major issues with the dive. I’m continually impressed at how skilled the commentators are at recognizing, in fractions of a…

There is no comparison. This fight was competitive, and although I’m sure the Irish fighter felt he felt he won, it was far from a forgone conclusion. The same can not be said of the Roy Jones Jr. fight. I encourage anyone who hasn’t watched his Olympic robbery to do so. It was so one sided it was a joke. One judge…

That would be this Olympics and it’s not been without controversy. However, studies show that you’re more likely to suffer head injuries with the headgear than without, so it was banned. Here’s the kicker though, only for men, not for women.

On the flip side, imagine how well it would play in Japan with their media if an American played there for 15 years and refused to engage them without an English interpreter. I’m guessing there would be no shortage of “rude American” takes.

Immediately wondered where the Octopus commercial was and completely agree it belongs on the list. I never owned a PS3, played the 360 at the time, but loved that spot.

Barry, +1 on the headline. Paired with that photo and I had a belly laugh that felt great. So perfectly sums up Rio.

Fappish, you're looking for fappish ;)

New Joey Votto fan, where do I sign up?

You nailed. Visor boy had missed wildly with 2-3 punches then got tagged. To his credit he smartly assessed the situation, put his ego aside, and wisely gave up the fight.

Puig does not have a big salary. Not even close. Seven years at 42 million for a player with his skill set, and even diminished numbers, is nothing in today’s MLB.

Now we can ALL agree that Pennywise is a scary fucking clown!

He knew it was Andrus in the mask and yet he still had an uncontrollable fear/rage reaction even with his little children right there with him. That’s about as bad a case of coulrophobia as I’ve ever seen. No idea how he managed to take his kids to the circus. My eldest is afraid of clowns, but this is a whole other…

It’s funny how something torn out of place can look so bad. The Tokyo look is God-aweful in the images above. Yet, in Tokyo, it’s got an undeniable charm.

I’ve not heard anyone (ever) argue that Ichiro wouldn’t have had a legit shot at 4,256 if he’d been in the majors since his early 20s. I’ve not even heard it argued with any real conviction that Rose is the better baseball player. No one is questioning how good he is or how brilliantly he hits.

I’ll absolutely defer to your knowledge in this area. I’m not actually arguing for it or against it. Really, my only point on this was that the attempts to tie “Heads Up” to concussion reduction was odd given that the mission of the program seemed more tied to avoiding spinal injuries.

I think about things like this every time someone goes on stage or screams at a rally “nothing has changed” or “things are no better today” in regards to racism or sexism in this country. We’ve got many miles to go, so much more to change, but to act as if we’ve made no progress is ludicrous.

Seneca, I’d have to look up the details to explain why (there is lots of info on this though on the web), but incidents of paralysis from tackling (rare they may be) are almost entirely down to tackling with the crown of the head or “head down.” When your head is up (lead with your face not your crown), and you tackle…

My understanding about the “head up” program was that it was less to do with reducing concussions and more to do with avoiding serious neck injuries. “Heads up, see what you tackle”.