Right then, no geography puns.

“It’s a bit odd to hear criticism over what gets put into the Thames, from a collection of people who once a year purposefully dye their river an even more putrid shade of green.”

Just a suggestion, but the investigators at AT&T may want to start with the bullpen...

Hey, they chose to be out...

No kidding. I was always told there were only 4 horsemen who would usher in the apocalypse...

Jackison?

Yackison Bumgarner

Madison Bombgarner

With the headline, really was hoping the striker was going to smash it over/wide of the goal with that last punch.

I believe they prefer the term “multi-level motivators”

“Megamucil” was right there...

This comment will almost certainly be underappreciated, but I wanted to say thank you and +1

Same qualities that make a hot dog a sandwich.

Hoping this is the right balance and continues the conversation we need to have in and out of sports to put much more emphasis on the therapy/rehabilitation side of criminal justice than on puritanical punishment. Obviously there have to be consequences for actions, but let’s also invest in preventing​ those actions…

Nice piece. Small edit: Paragraph 4: “Familia’s and Rivas’s join cooperation with the prosecution made the legal process undramatic.”

“Schweinsteiger, please believe me, we’re not all that clueless.”

“What if I told you the bar for heroism in the NFL was really a faded line chalked on the ground?”

“Eh buddy! The fuckin line’s back there!”

This. This the Faustian bargain the GOP signed in 2010 to get back into power. They sell the party’s soul, win seats, gerrymander the shit out of the country, and build a permanent majority (fine print: comes with intractable assholes who will make governing with this new circus majority impossible.)

Dear Oakland,