Is it institutionalized racism or institutionalized sexism? Most likely it is a bit of both.

No need to worry about (insert favorite large sports team). It was just practice.

Don’t want to speak for the women, but I thought the NFL shop commercials around the holiday season were pretty good. They showed young couples opening gifts from both sets of their parents which contain merchandise for different teams (with one member of the couple making a face when they see the gift from their…

That is the standard proration of a signing bonus for salary cap purposes and has nothing to do with how the money was paid out to the player.

FWIW, Hernandez’s $12.5 million signing bonus was scheduled to be paid out in three installments ($6 million in 2012, $3.25 in 2013 and $3.25 in 2014). The salary cap proration…

Hernandez’s signing bonus being paid over multiple years is a weird exception. Manziel almost definitely got the entirety of his signing bonus when he signed his rookie contract so there is nothing Cleveland can do to recoup any of it.

When there are special league wide ceremonies and commemorations on the first day that don’t exist on the third day (or any of the other days of the month), then yes there is a difference between the two.

I am sure they will give away the shirts at tomorrow night’s game. That way they can honor the Chinese New Year without the bad optics of promoting the “Year of the Monkey” at the same time they are promoting the start of Black History Month. And since the Chinese New Year doesn’t start until the 8th, it seems like a…

Sure it is. Look at Geno Atkins on the Bengals who has sickle cell trait or Jay Cutler and his diabetes. They are monitored due to those conditions and may at times be limited in what they can do. But they are still good enough to justify being on the team even if they may not be pushed as hard as the rest of the team…

No, but it is incomplete since it assumes those were the only two options available. I think most people would suggest that the third option of “allow him on the team while monitoring his workouts to make sure his condition doesn’t endanger his health” is a pretty reasonable one.

Because if the resale price is below face value then a fan without a ticket will buy the cheap resale ticket from a season ticket holder over the full price unsold ticket from the team (think Jacksonville or any other team constantly fighting blackouts)

I like this guy’s remake.

Exactly. There is a difference between changing a rule to correct that the league has evolved in a way that negatively impacts numerous players on every team and changing a rule because some teams want to use a small number of players who can’t perform all the skills necessary for that game. It would be like removing…

Right. Why would she want to wait days, if not weeks, for a response from the police through the postal system when she could see if there was a person willing to bring a $5 check to the precint, get a copy of the report and scan/photo and email it to her (something that could potentially take less than an hour and…

I think the distinction is that the prize pool in season long fantasy leagues is completely shared within the members of the league. The websites may charge a fee for the service of administering the league all season long, but that fee is the same whether your league has a $10,000 first prize or no prizes other than…

It depends on why the 25% increase is occurring. If it is simply due to market conditions allowing for a higher rent, then you are correct that the cost of owning would not have increased during that time. But if it is due to increased property taxes or homeowners fees or utility bills (which are included in the rent)…

You missed the Packers penalty after the 4th and 20 catch which allowed Janis to have 101 receiving yards on the Packers final drive.

I think he was complaining the Alabama player interfered with his player’s chance to catch the kick. But the Clemson player never got close enough for that to be possible,

A Clemson player should definitely have called for a fair catch. But I don’t think any of them would have reached the ball before it hit the ground and became fair game for the Alabama player (if he heard the fair catch call and knew that meant he couldn’t catch it himself)

I believe it is a live ball off the tee no matter what, but if the ball does not bounce then the receiving team has the right to call for a fair catch. If a Clemson player had done that, then the Alabama player would have had to wait for it to hit the ground. I also think the “kick catch interference” rule would have…

No. It how society advances.