Boy, it sure sounds like USA Today was trying real goddamn hard to get that quote. I mean, you don’t send a reporter in his first year on the beat into the middle of a playoff run to ask about some murders unless you want a damn answer and you wanted it yesterday!

Fuck yes.

Outstanding.

La Fin

For sure. Same name, same profession is the reason we have suffixes! But I could go for a team jersey with “DeShields the Lesser” on it, too.

I’ve had it up to here with these 2-bit RAMs.

“Fedora went on to say that ‘our game is under attack’ and that he fears when football has to inevitably change”

Shit, man, Alvin has really let himself go.

They say to never befriend your idols. For the sake of his own knees, maybe Griezmann should adhere to that policy.

Good job fact-checking that story, Bernstein.

Or just talk to the ump! Point out the lack of facilities, and ask for a longer break between innings while one of the players goes to the bathroom behind some shrubs or whatever.
A parent who is coaching his ten-year old’s Little League team into the playoffs DESPITE the presence of “slugs on the bench” seems very…

When you write about a sport played with feet, you gotta be pedantic.

Agreed. I couldn’t figure out why it didn’t get any love here or anywhere else that I thought it would; I guess a Ronaldo hat trick, with the third being an all-world, do-or-die free kick goal to avoid a crushing loss, would push anyone out of the newsprint. (‘Cept an idiot on the field, natch.)

Why does “I just called to say I love you” always make me think of “Feliz Navidad”?