It is very tough to quantify which crime is worse. Rice’s was exceptionally violent and could have easily resulted in murder. We also don’t know that it was an aberration.

There is hope that he won’t get hired again soon. Unlike in years past, this case has hard evidence in the form of text messages and to multiple women. I’d guess that even in cases of guys getting fired they likely present it as being he said she said or something political. Without a smoking gun, it is easy to give…

The details about the cab is some rapey shit. This isn’t even a case of “I was just being funny and friendly” that some harassers claim.

Mapou initiated the confrontation otherwise Messi would have needed to jump to headbutt him.

Maybe I’m not seeing this correctly, but to me it looks like Messi is walking and Mapou cuts him off by lowering his forehead to get into Messi’s face. Messi responds with forcefully pushing back with his head. It is tough to see because the camera is panning when this happens.

Bo gets lots props...but never enough. Greatest athlete of all time, would have been best RB of all time.

How about this as a theory:

I’m stealing #AuH2O btw. Thanks much.

I had never read that before, but holy shit. That column was possibly the worst sports column I’ve ever read. It wouldn’t have mattered if Serena had stayed at 11 majors and Whitlock had been “right” about her underachieving. That was just cheap. Then Serena goes on to nearly double that number in the next 6 years.

It would have been more interesting last summer if Argentina had a healthy Aguero the entire tournament and a healthy Di Maria for the last few games. Germany is still the better side, but Argentina at least has a chance.

Although, in general, I think informed adults should be allowed to take whatever personal risks they choose as long as they don’t put others at risk, this situation is not as simple.

Here, here. Donovan is more skilled than Wondo for sure, but Donovan probably would have been on the bench either recovering from the prior game, waiting to be subbed in or already subbed out.

Beyond that, it makes it compelling to watch on a TV show or talk about on the Internet. It is an unusual situation that, although similar to what the average retiree faces, is far more extreme and thus the drama is better.

Who stole the ‘bee?

I understand the barbs thrown at Kluwe mainly for saying “yeah, sometimes it fucking sucks to be young, rich, and wealthy when you have no idea what you’re getting into and what that might potentially mean.” He probably should have worded it a bit differently, but I don’t think he was suggesting that pro athletes in…

Amen to that. SI went down the tubes when Dr. Z had his stroke. He was a great sports writer and was anti Hot Take before they even existed. He didn’t write to the lowest common denominator. The writing was never about him. He was basically the complete opposite of what Peter King has become. Back then PK was just the…

Kinda fucking beat em.

Maybe, just maybe Phil was never the basketball savant he was made out to be. I’m not suggesting he knows nothing about basketball or that he was a bad coach. In fact he was a certainly a good coach. A coaching God? The case for that is awfully hard to make.

Yep, none of the other contestants for greatest all-time would have had that Argentina team winning it all last summer. They were outmatched and outcoached. I think Argentina might have had a shot if Di Maria had been healthy, but in today’s game a 1 man attack simply doesn’t beat Germany.

Bayless has actually chilled out a bit and seems to let Stephen A take most of the crazy. He is still a gas bag but he has been more nuanced on the social issues lately.