Love this. +1

+1 dexterous left hand

nice.

yup. +1

This is a good point...it's definitely an issue of degree. In this case, the players crossed the line of an "acceptable" amount of sandbagging, whereas the Phelps example clearly doesn't. Still, Phelps isn't really "trying" to lose per se...he's just saving himself for later races, whereas the badminton women were…

"but beyond assigning specific blame [it] means nothing"

Wait, what? Of course it's a poor coaching decision. You could even argue the coach should disciplined for intentionally throwing the game. Which, if you read my post, is exactly my point: throwing a match/game is grounds for discipline. In your example, the cripple guy from down the street would be blameless, but…

I think it's relevant who performs the act, because it determines who is at fault (and ultimately, who should be held to account). If an NBA coach is trotting out his benchwarmers for the last week of the season, but those benchwarmers play and perform as hard as they can while losing, then the players themselves are…

In one case, the participants are playing as hard as they can, but aren't the best players. In the other case, the participants are playing poorly on purpose. In both cases, neither team is acting particularly "honorably," but only in the 2nd case are the actual players to blame. To me, that's an important…

nice. +1

"This is no different than pro teams tanking to get a better draft pick."

fantastic read.

there it is. +1

Nice. +1

Clearly an awful, awful soundbite. But let's not make more of it than what it is: an idiot with a microphone in his face, saying something dumb. As Cosentino states in the article, "compiling a handful of quotes from three or four individuals and passing off whatever they say as representative of an entire community…

That's worth a +1...don't you think?

awesome. +1

Well said. +1

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