“had dealt with recurring blisters on his pitching hand, along with a separate groin injury”

Leroy Hoard who had an all-time fat back quote: “If you need one yard, I’ll get you three. If you need five yards, I’ll get you three.”

Up until about, oh, ninety seconds ago I was a firm opponent of the death penalty.

Fresno State declined the penalty, too.

Husker fan here. You guys don’t mind if I just sit here and cry quietly to myself, right?

What? No. It probably heralds a new golden age between our two countries

If you like unwritten rules, track cycling is the sport for you! There’s all kinds of regulations and rules about where you should be and when. Which makes sense when you’re elbow to elbow going 35mph with no brakes.

Fun fact: The combined population of only the New York and Los Angeles Metropolitan Statistical Areas is 33.5 million.

U mad, Max?

I spent about 5 minutes piecing together what you were trying to say with that math. So basically, Ledecky beat her closest opponent by about 5 feet less than the gold medal shot put throw? Either way, I approve of this pointless math.

Holy shit - this is just a straight forward informative post explaining the answer to an interesting question. Well done.

If Patrick doesn’t take her up on that offer and/or Marchman doesn’t force him to, then journalism is over.

Lindsay seems nice.

I enjoy someone willing to dive into the deep end of fish puns just for the halibut.

Heck yeah. So much so, that they’re only allowed to do it until the black marks on the floating lanes.

Vince Williams: [falls in gorilla cage]

"I hate the guy. He thought he was God."

Nice piece, Bob. It brought back bittersweet memories of my decades long feud and eventual reconciliation with Shakira, after I once described her work as "almost Charo-ish."

The Orange monopolies still do very well in Expected Return