And Bristol Palin (twice!) and Rick Perry and Geraldo and I’m probably forgetting a few more. They’re all trash dancers, too, but Bristol got a ton of votes for being good at hypocrisy. 

As a child of the 80s who bears a passing resemblance to James Van Der Beek, I am very familiar with his name. Christie Brinkley you’d know if your parents are into Billy Joel or you watched Parks and Rec. Kenan and Kel was definitely a thing when I was in high school, though it wasn’t my thing. But Karamo Brown I…

If he didn’t know before about the PR job going into the release of her newest single, I bet this move is sincere.  Of course this Hollywood, so this might still be part of that job.

Outside of the stadium, apparently. 

It was interesting seeing the NFL use this method to try to bolster the perception that they actually care about players’ health. 

You’ve got a population of people who shouldn’t be driving cars who have no other options than to drive a car, and it’s all paid for in public money. 

There are a lot of English conventions in the names of continental teams because English immigrants and workers were involved in their founding. It’s the whole reason the English game became the international game, even though other codes of football were being established at the same time elsewhere (namely in North…

These days it seems like you can join a right-wing group of ultras no matter what team you support.

It’s not as offensive to me that they are using the Spanish name for the club since Miami has a majority Spanish-speaking population and they’re intending for the team to play in Miami.  That they’re more likely to have a following of English-speaking white bros than any sort of Spanish-speaking group is a bit of a…

Real is the really dumb one.  The entire concept of American is built around republicanism.  Nothing here should be “real/royal”.

It does at least make more sense than calling it an FC in a country where F isn’t the initial for the sport.  International is not a bad description of Miami.

My high school was built in the late 90s without bathroom doors, mostly to cut down on smoking and other discipline problems. It’s weird to me to hear about schools where people trust the students.

I will happily take that window over my desk in the aisle of smokers.

AFPM has been behind some recent “green energy” anti-nuclear campaigns, since the main alternative is inevitably natural gas.  Big Oil might be scared but in America they are definitely winning.

This opinion is dumb and wrong.  If you don’t agree with VAR’s interpretation of a hand ball or an offside violation, the rules need to be changed to eliminate any ambiguity.  There’s no room for us to allow referees to use their “common judgment” to rule in favor of whatever team pissed them off less.

Dr. Gingrich’s dissertation has been described as an apologia to Belgian colonial policy in Congo, which really isn’t much of a surprise.

The name of Oakland’s metro is San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward Metropolitan Statistical Area, because Oakland is a primary city of a metro area with multiple urban cores. But the 49ers don’t even play in their own metro area, so maybe the better measure of community for pro sports is the media market. Either way trying…

Oakland is a fully integrated community in the metro, with residents who work in San Francisco and Silicon Valley (despite the commute) and until recently hosting the local NBA team. The Raiders themselves tried to relocate to South Bay before the 49ers decided to set up shop 60 miles south of their namesake city (a…

Oakland metro is 7.75 million, Las Vegas metro is 2.4 million. Minneapolis metro is 4 million. Nashville is a small market for the NFL but it’s a good bit bigger than Jacksonville and it’s not that much smaller than Buffalo (might have surpassed it now). The team was given to Tennessee on the assumption that it would…

Once again people are complaining about VAR because they hate the rules.