What an awesome story for Formula 1 to cap off a fairly eventful and entertaining race. Full credit to Verstappen for a great drive, showed a lot of poise for an 18 year old when he was under fire, but I feel like this race was handed to him after the Mercedes incident and some truly head-scratching strategy. If I’m…

FWIW it was still the highest rated sporting event on cable networks this weekend, beating the NBA and NHL playoffs. Shame people didn’t tune in because it was a hell of a race, just an awesome show all day. There was great racing for the lead, passing throughout the field, a Talladega style “big one”. Overall the…

Former CSNNE commentator Kirk Minihane said that this was pretty well known to most at the network in a recent article for WEEI. Other media members have also indicated questions have been out there for a while about their relationship. I think people in New England generally had less of a problem with the Jenny Dell…

It’s absolutely incredible that this story hasn’t gotten more traction in the lead up to the Super Bowl. The mainstream sports media LOVES Peyton Manning...their adulation is barely disguised. The contrast between the way this story has been handled and the farcical media circus surrounding “deflategate” last year is…

I’m not a huge fan of the caution clock idea, but is it really so bad to try it out on a third-tier series? NASCAR has historically done its experimenting in the truck series (such as racing on dirt) and this caution clock isn’t really so different from the mid-race “halftime caution” that was part of the truck series…

I find it hysterical that New England had the fewest fumbles of any offense in the league in 2015 and one of their lowest fumble rates in a decade with all the new PSI testing after all the pseudo-science and accusations that were thrown around this time last year about the Patriots institutional cheating and the…

So your position is that Burfict’s knee injured Roethlisberger’s AC joint after the tackle...not the combined impact of a 250 pound linebacker and a 240 pound quarterback landing on it? Duly noted

Burfict did plenty of stupid things in this game but the hit that injured Roethlisberger was perfectly legal and was in no way a “cheap shot”

Interestingly enough, people in New England think that same thing about people from the South. Have you ever been to Mississippi, Alabama or Texas? The rural south makes even the most remote northeastern backwater seem like Harvard. Also along those lines, New England is home to the vast majority of elite learning…

This was a phenomenal game so it just sucks that the officials had to make themselves part of the outcome. Even if you despise the Patriots you have to admit they got absolutely hosed in a couple of huge spots in the 4th. The part that made it really galling was the way the officials stayed out of the way of a great…

It should be noted he was paid for 15 of those 19 games however

After showing off his woodsy masculinity by blasting a captive pheasant at point blank range with an overpowered weapon he posted a picture of himself and an aide doing laundry at a laundromat in Iowa because he’s also a #realguy who’s just like the rest of us...you know, except for being a batshit rube with medieval…

It’s funny to me that this is exactly the kind of thing NASCAR, fans and the media clamor for when nothing is happening, and then when it does they act outraged. NASCAR will be upset about it and then use it in every promotional commercial for the next 3 years. As for the incident..I was floored when it happened, but…

The Patriots are in everyone’s head right now...the Jets having the locker room swept for bugs, the Colts feeling they need to run complicated trick plays and onside kicks, the Steelers crying about radio issues even though both teams were experiencing them, the Ravens bitching about the completely legal formations…

He’s like the real life version of Joe Dirt..when I saw his mugshot all I could think of was Dennis Miller saying, “Now, you’re telling me you were so ingrained with white trash DNA, your hair actually grows in on its own all white-trashy like that?”

My favorite part of all of this is that Mike Tomlin had to listen to Scott Zolak for a quarter. He’s trying to talk to the coaches booth and instead gets Zo yelling out, “Unicorns and Show Ponies!!” — But seriously though...if the Patriots are the evil geniuses everyone is making them out to be do you think they pull…

What he wrote really isn’t the point, though I happen to agree that the article made a lot of ridiculous paranoid accusations without a shred of proof or any names attached. The point is he made an informed an fairly innocuous observation and ESPN removed it...it’s shady behavior at this juncture if nothing else.

I mean...Bill Simmons is a colossal douche...but isn’t he kinda right here? ESPN published an “investigative report” that essentially rehashed a bunch of shit we knew 8 years ago and added in a bunch of quotes and details from more “anonymous sources” to go along with the sour grapes routine that guys like Bill Polian…

You hit it on the head with this one. It’s nearly impossible to have a rational conversation about the Patriots because many fans (and ex-players in the media) have a hard time accepting the fact that the Patriots routinely beat them like a drum. It seems like every fan base or organization they have beaten over their…

Not all Patriots fans flatly deny any wrongdoing in this case, you’re missing the point. The point is guilty or innocent this was a complete farce, a speeding ticket that was punished like a homicide. And appearances aside the league came away from a multi-million dollar witch hunt with shit for evidence and still…