Maybe it’s bad form to link to this, but Buzzfeed’s Ken Bensinger wrote a great profile of Chuck Blazer a few years ago. It features this heart-warming image:

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Graeme Le Saux, maybe?

“The Guardian was used as one of the most powerful symbols of how I was supposed to be weirdly different. Pathetic, really. It gave substance to the gossip that I was homosexual: Guardian reader equals gay boy. Some people really thought that added up.”

Looks like whoever chose that image is going to have to

It’s pretty easy to watch, if that’s your thing: tennischanneleverywhere.com for the early rounds and WatchESPN for the late ones, with a cable subscription & password.

Also, good managing by Mourinho, seeing that Ozil was a lost cause and forcing him to figure that out himself and take himself out. Wenger’s style at those junctures is more “leave him in for all 90 minutes as he continues to stand around shitting the bed and pissing off his own teammates.”

Agree with you about the meaning of “best.” When I read that phrase I’m not thinking of a top ten or twenty or anything, I’m just thinking of a subjective measure of someone who is so good—as demonstrated by either multiple years of excellence or just freakish indisputable ability right off the bat—that any team in…

He’s not one of the world’s best players. But I guess I appreciate having a statement like that at the beginning of the article, a red flag that clues everyone into the fact that “Hmm, this writer might have no f**ing clue what he’s talking about” and saves everyone the time it’s going to take to wade through the next…

Sorry for being a day late to reply, but I think that criticism (if it even counts as criticism) does apply to Murray too, although I suspect, without having any proof, that Murray will do a better job maximizing his longevity simply because he’s more physically powerful than Djokovic, and possibly has better…

His game is predicated on such fine margins that the minute he ticks over his physical prime (he turns 30 this year) or simply gets worn down by his own rubber-man style of play, he’s not going to have much of a chance anymore. He doesn’t have, and never has had, a single nuclear shot that he can live off of when…

It seems more terrifying in South America, though.

Right, but anyone with a day or two to practice can figure out how to do it with a volleyball, whereas only about 10 people in the world have ever mastered how to hit a soccer ball this way. Bare hands provide a conveniently shaped and dextrous means of imparting control on a volleyball, which knuckles at a much lower…

Juninho is the original practitioner. Often imitated, never duplicated, but I think the free kick from today is as close as it’s ever going to get. Wait for the last angle on this one.

Depends where you are.

Apples and oranges. They’re completely different sports and they ask different things of an athlete’s body. A 6-6 guy is big in tennis, and up until about 15 years ago someone that size would have been expected to become a serve-and-volleyer 100% of the time, which is somewhat easier on the body because of shorter…

I’d be worried that he’ll be prone to the same injury problems that someone like Nadal had, being a big man who is athletic enough to get to, and put his whole body into, monster groundstrokes—the problem being that because he’s big, he has to crouch more and it puts undue wear and tear on the knees. Watching those…

featured the scoreboard operator forgetting to credit the Shockers with a point on three separate occasions

He’s also the person who made the entirely baseless accusation—not supported by any other players on the field, or the other referees on the headset, and eventually rejected by the FA—that Mark Clattenburg yelled, “Shut up you monkey!” to Jon Obi Mikel in 2012.

What about being hit by a train? That’s more of an Eddie Griffin thing.