Even without the Salary Cap, losing the money would cost players money. Even without the set portion of revenue the players get, it would cost players money. If the teams have less money, they spend less on salary. The Cap and Revenue provisions just make the relationship explicit and exact.

Lebron’s criticism about Morey is essentially the NFL’s stance on Kaepernick: Something you said cost us money, so we have to punish you. Is that what he thinks got Donald Sterling banned? When Lebron wore his “I can’t breathe” T-shirt and the Heatles wore their hoodies, and he called Trump “U Bum,” he risked the…

I think at this point the Chargers and Raiders would both be better off swapping (LA Raiders, Las Vegas Chargers). I think, given the option, they both would prefer it. Of course the Rams would throw a fit (which probably demonstrates how much sense it makes, and makes the Chargers in LA look like more of a Joke). The…

It obviously couldn’t be Pass Interference, and the fact it was ever called that is gross incompetence. But how did the refs think the penalty occurred after the ball was in the air? Dungy says Mahomes threw the ball AFTER he saw the flag. Dungy might be full of it, but you can see Kelce has hit the ground as the ball…

He touched the ball without picking it up, as if he were a player on the kicking team “downing the ball.” But really it was a live ball muff. He didn’t pick it up and kneel.

The story as I remember it, was James Blunt’s British unit was told to secure an airport, but they found Russians in the area. The allied NATO command, led by General Wes Clark, instructed them to secure it anyway, which would have caused a very tense situation with the Russian military, and risked an exchange of fire.…

White Privilege isn’t an insult. Most white privileges are advantages everyone should have. The problem is when those privileges are taken as proof of superiority (personal or racial). You have people saying, “I’ve never been in trouble with the law, why can’t those people stay out of trouble” then joking about the…

James Blunt disparaged General Wesley Clark in 2007 on Top Gear (UK) for giving an order to Blunt’s unit in the Balkan Wars that could have started World War 3 with Russia. If he had kept his squeaky voice silent in 2007, Wes Clark would have won the U.S. Presidency in 2008 and 2012, allowing Barack Obama to win in…

Shep was better than Chris Wallace. Shep was willing to criticize the GOP’s worst most heinous actions as unacceptable. (Katrina was probably his big moment). There were Hannity-level lows that Wallace, Brit Hume, etc weren’t willing to stoop to, but they were rarely willing to call out the GOP power structure. They…

Lacob obviously begged Kerr not to say anything at all. Kerr’s “I choose not to be a soundbite” statement might be the closest I’ve heard to “I really don’t want to answer that question because it is bad for me.” Much more telling than “no comment.” I don’t see how anyone in the NBA can continue to dodge questions…

I was really disappointed in Gerrit Cole’s performance tonight, because it should have come in Game 1 against the Yankees.

Simmons said one of the most important things I’ve heard any commentator say on this so far:

I think the Chinese government wants the attention on this, though. They want the whole world to watch as they chew up the NBA as a warning to any other country, person or company who wants to nose-in on China’s business. They are thugs beating up the shop-owner who stands up to them for the whole neighborhood to see.

Listening to Tsai about this is no different than asking Mikhail Prokhorov about Russia’s incursions into Ukraine. Their Lives and Livelihoods are at stake. They CANNOT do anything but defend the party line of the rulers that have control over everything they have. Some of the Russian Oligarch sports owners have made…

“Q” demands its own article! Either that or An Albuquerque Turquoise Quokkas expansion franchise.

And Trump cheats.

It was a big part of it though. His form of New Labour betrayed his base and his party on domestic and economic issues, (and Blair had a foreign policy outside of America, Iraq and Afghanistan). But you can’t tell the story of why Tony Blair’s become despised without his relationship with George W. Bush and their Forei…

She didn’t know why Bush was awful because Britain “was dealing with our own epic nightmare of a prime minister back then.” What? Blair was a nightmare because he enabled Bush to do his terrible things and got Britain involved in those terrible things. It is literally impossible to know Blair was an epic nightmare…

Stephen already hinted at his “keep your mouth shut” idea the day before, so she had time to process her thoughts on it. The headline here insinuates Molly panicked and shut him down to avoid pissing off business partners (and I’m sure a bunch of people behind the cameras and a bunch of execs had that reaction, and…

I remember watching the 2006 World Cup in Germany and English-language commentators were shocked at how good he played. I don’t know if Germans thought highly of him, but I was lead to believe they didn’t. The fact they had to play so much Schweinsteiger was one of the indicators of why the team was expected to be…