A person’s wealth is most definitely taxed. If you own a home, you pay property taxes based on the assessed value of your home and property. When you die, every dime of your estate is taxed (to be fair, there is an exemption that effectively results in the imposition of tax applying to only the portion of your estate…

Drew - I am a Cleveland Browns fan and I think including Hue Jackson on the list of potential firings is a mistake on your part. The Browns might finish 0-16 (they will), but there are three things to keep in mind:

Every time I catch a glimpse of that picture in a DS post about Selig, my first thought is always, “Why are they using a picture of Stephen Hawking for a Selig article?”

That giveaway is no longer going on after last week when the PR person responsible for running the team’s Twitter account unfortunately tweeted that Brownie would be passed out next to a transvestite prostitute behind a dumpster somewhere in the east bank of the Flats when he was actually passed out next to a…

Despite what you may be thinking, I am a Browns fan (I grew up in Cleveland), hate the Redskins (I think Snyder is an absolutely shitty and abhorrent human being), and I really enjoy watching Cam play (I mean, c’mon, how frequently do you see a player come in to a league with such a diverse skill set that it breaks…

Actually, it is exactly what the rules say.

The crazy thing to me is looking at Westbrook’s per game averages relative to players who have large but limited roles. Tristan Thompson has two main jobs - to rebound and play defense - yet Westbrook is averaging more RPG than Thompson. Ricky Rubio and Rajon Rondo - whose respective FG% are .357 and .398 and who…

Once a quarterback is outside of the pocket and moving with the football, roughing the passer no longer applies. Further, once a quarterback tries to advance the ball downfield by running with it, the quarterback becomes a ballcarrier and a defender can make helmet-to-helmet contact with him so long as the defender…

If the character clause is so god damn important that writers feel they can use it as the basis for keeping players like Clemens, Bonds, Palmeiro, Schilling etc., out of the HOF, why in the fuck aren’t they using the character clause to vote in players who were mediocre-at-best but were widely recognized as having…

You forget Perry Fewell (he’s been a defensive coordinator) and Perry Mason (fictional, sure, but he was a defense attorney). Both are imminently more qualified than the Rickster.

Player A: 60.0% CMP, 9.9 YPA, 126.7 QB Rat.

Rule No. 10 - Violations and Penalties, Section XIII - Traveling, Subparagraph b., of the NBA rule book reads as follows with respect to traveling (emphasis added):

Is it that surprising that Kennard is putting together this kind of season? He was a two-time Mr. Basketball in Ohio and his high school stats look like video game numbers:

The math works if we assume that your temperament is measured in MUs (meanness units) instead of NUs (niceness units), and that there is a 1:1 equivalence between MUs and NUs.

That game looks like it will likely have some playoff implications (seeding for Oakland, making the playoffs for Indy), so there is an excellent chance that the game will be flexed to Sunday night that week. Unfortunately, I think there is little chance they will promote it as the Funter Bowl and I expect…

The criminal code and criminal procedure rules may be different in Louisiana, but when you file a criminal charge in Pennsylvania it generally includes the lesser degrees and classifications of that crime such that you can obtain a guilty verdict if you fail to prove each element of the charged crime but manage to…

I’m not sure what you want them to do. They exercised their team option on Santana and otherwise have only two key contributors (Napoli, Davis) who are free agents, and they are trying to work out a deal to bring back Napoli. Most of their best/most important players (Kipnis, Kluber, Gomes, Miller, Carrasco,…

At one point he stops and picks up a piece of sand. Hold it up to the sky and it obscures 10,000 galaxies. It’s a useful exercise in perspective.

I believe (and I could admittedly be entirely wrong on this) that the league instructs refs to err toward allowing play to continue on a close inbound/out-of-bound or down/not down play because the play is dead once the whistle blows and you cannot review the play to award additional yardage (except for a ball-spot…

No word yet on what the combined company will be called.