I’ll second this. Even in great shape and reasonably sober, every softball game pretty much meant two strained quads for me.

I grew up in a small town in the Midwest. I think it was similar in some ways, but maybe not so...would “defiantly insular” be the right phrase here?

Oh Baylor for sure was far more gross than some of the usual transgressions of dirty programs.. The sad thing is that you’d like to expect more from a “christian” university, but it seems that in matters like this, you can almost without fail, expect less from christian institutions. 

It’s just that, “the coach we just hired actively covered up for the acts of serial rapists on his watch” is kind of a difficult thing to spit out of one’s mouth.

Almost as sketchy as booking a one way flight out of the country before having to testify in court.

Not different enough that you didn’t make a great point. His career should be over. Baylor was almost a carbon copy of Joe Paterno’s sins at Penn State. The only difference is that it was a grown man molesting boys (Ewww, gay-ish and gross) vs. college guys doing some raping on some nameless co-eds (boys will be boys…

I knew what she meant.  You knew what she meant.  This adds less than nothing to the discourse at hand. 

Imagine being the poor, underpaid, Hillary-voting English teacher at this high school trying to hold the starting QB accountable to his schoolwork. 

My feeling is that it’s likely that no college football program has ever risen from obscurity or perpetual mediocrity without having to do some shady shit. Like SMU and The U before them, Baylor was no exception. Oregon may be the exception provided all that Nike cash was infused on the up and up. Also, keep your eye…

You get a star for the Super Tecmo Bowl reference. Somewhere out there is your arch-nemesis going by the name The Wrath of the Inevitable Injury to QB Eagles.

Goddamn, you pretty much wrapped the whole culture up in one, neat, disgustingly accurate few paragraphs. This is exactly what is wrong with America.

I feel gross and I have nothing to do with anything in the article. What in the hell is wrong with the Bible Belt?

Justin Tucker, I’m looking at you to make this happen, buddy.

This only highlights the need for a gymnastics video game where you can pit Biles vs Retton vs Comaneci.  Imagine creating your own world where you can take Biles and give her a creepy Eastern European coach and shoot her up with steroids. 

I miss kickoff returns and when The Simpsons was good.

Maybe someone can explain the St. Louis Cardinals hate to me.  They’ve always fielded pretty fun teams, especially in the Wizard of Oz days.  It’s not like there’s any reason to hate the city of St. Louis and at their worst, you can still say, “at least they aren’t the Cubs.”

I feel just a little bit dirty, but you got your star. 

He’s still an incredibly smart, thoughtful guy. Even when he gets caught up in dumb shit, he usually does it with the kind of panache usually lacking in most NFL dumb shit. 

Depends who has the lung cancer. Like, for instance, if someone were to brag about how they could get away with murdering someone in plain sight on 5th avenue, then found out they had some lung cancer, I’m on team lung cancer. 

You could have said the exact same thing about Mike Scott and Nolan Ryan when they faced a New York team in the playoffs.