I look forward to the years ahead where additional automatic bids are given to countries that spend at least X dollars on TV rights.

So Cousins takes a huge hit to the head on that play and sits on the ground looking dazed for 30 seconds. The other injury buys him time to pull it together and it appears he was never evaluated for a concussion. I guess I’m not surprised.

I know that is a crane but I like to think it is a helicopter lifting cars out.

“And you thought Harvey Weinstein was having a rough year!”

I’ll go on. The foreshadowing of the empty bullpen is straight out of The Shining. Kubrick grade stuff.

This is like some sort of baseball art school film. I’m kinda into it.

The screenshot at the top looks like some sort of crazy field goal attempt. Bears player as kicker, ravens player as holder, and another ravens player as ref - and a messy line of scrimmage. I had to watch the video just to see what I was looking at.

Yeah, Vegas is different. Downtown is basically main for visitors. It makes sense to build a stadium in the burbs where people actually live.

Frazier also had a great at bat, including a bunch of foul balls, right before that. Him battling for the walk was important since it brought up somebody who could actually hit the ball.

If that is true, it just makes him more right all along.

For reasons that aren’t quite clear to me, ambition seems like a really important trait in this sport and a whole generation of our best players decided that good paychecks to play bad soccer was enough.

One bad call from this headline being “Ghanaian World Cup hopes kept alive by by terrible bounce off garbage Ugandan pitch.”

Holy shit. Is he trying to make weight in that top image? That is a lot of sweat.

I think the number of sprint stages is a bigger problem for the Tour than Froome. The solution is in what you said: watch the Giro. Sky doesn’t care as much and the courses are made for great racing. My favorite tour stages are often intermediate days when a superhuman effort wins or the break stays away. This may be…

We need to talk about those Koln Jerseys.

This video is just guerrilla marketing for London’s bike share program.

So much bad goal tending here. You are right, the one is nice but almost all the others involve some poor work (and a nice penalty save in the middle). Both long free kicks involve serious misreads on floating balls. The shorter free kick is scored on then on-wall side - which is also the further side. The last one…

He tried to run up the fucking mountain. I do not find him boring. I do find that narrative boring.

The nice thing about sliding like this as a pro cyclist is that you only weigh 120 pounds. My fat ass would grind to a halt with my rib bones exposed.

Here is the thing to me - and I’m not saying it’s a completely clean sport. Some people will continue to push boundaries and other people will continue to get caught with steroids. However, the racing is different now and I think that is the result of a more even chemical playing field. People complain about Froome…