I can and I do blame them (as well as the Michigan coaches). NCAA rules are deplorably vague on who is responsible for concussion maintenance—the whole concussion appendix, basically, is in passive voice—but the injury timeout rule is clear that the officials WILL call timeout for an injured player (not that they…

It's kind of worse that they did call roughing the passer there (vs. calling nothing at all), because that means they saw what happened and still failed to eject head-injurer and send head-injury-ee for concussion protocols.

A thousand demerits to the officials, too, who also have a responsibility to exclude apparently-concussed players (not to mention the guy who concussed him).

The song is "Spanish Flea" by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass. I know it best from its appearances on The Simpsons, but it's also known from The Dating Game and a few other places (like the Fangraphs audio podcast).

Not taking a position on the merits of handgun self defense, but that howitzer would probably break both of her arms.

Your SO is clearly a person of superior taste. Anyway, blue stands for loyalty and white for purity; any sensible 21st-Century person should prize the former well above the latter, IMHO.

Hierarchy for sitting in the pointy end, top-down:

It has long been my curmudgeonly contention that everyone should be incarcerated for the crime of turning 13, with eligibility for parole after three years' good behavior.

Safe to say the protest will not be upheld; Davidson's view seems to be that the batter was not in the box when the challenge was made, so whether or not he's correct in that assessment, the debate is about his judgment, not the rule.

Ugh, what a clustercuss. I get the sense that what people are REALLY mad about is not so much the curfew—you say "it's not peace, it's silence," but silence is not an unreasonable request at 2 a.m. in a residential area. People are mad about the lack of answers in the shooting, and the apparent focus on all the…

To be fair, that's actually kind of a BFD in an agricultural state. MO is split about 50/50 urban/rural in terms of population, and the rural half is very thin-skinned whenever Big City issues trump Real 'Murica issues.

Man, this guy just can't help himself. Sees something awful and immediately thinks "I shall be worse!"

"Kill it with fire" vis-à-vis tomatoes is the most perfect description of my feelings about the fruit. I enjoy cooked tomatoes in many forms—sauce, confit, ketchup, sundried, you name it—but put raw or nearly-raw tomato in my food and I will put said food, or at least the tomatoey bits of it, in the nearest garbage…

We seriously need to enact looooong prison sentences for this sort of behavior, along with animal cruelty and the like. Not so much because they're harmful per se (though they certainly are that), but because the type of person who does this is the type of person for whom, as t approaches infinity, the…

I think he might've been getting at the fact that if black people are disproportionately searched, it's pretty much tautological that the hit rate for white people will be higher, since even if the numerator (number of people carrying drugs) is level (or even, strictly hypothetically, larger for black people), the…

Agreed in all respects but one: the county didn't divorce the city; it was the other way around. The city chopped off the then-rural county in 1876. Again, not saying there aren't bright lines of division through STL, but there was no overt political "Begone, ye urban scallawags!" element to the city/county…

Regardless of the outcome of this incident, there is no justice in this world.

Noted; see earlier reply.

Yeah, on review, I might've been a bit quick to judge brakes vs. no brakes as the best course here. Freakin' dirt tracks. Kid put himself in a really bad position. It's easy to believe that Stewart would rev to put the fear of God into him—see above re: throwing helmets at cars, though I definitely don't think he…

Not saying it was acceptable, just that it's not unreasonable to expect drivers to anticipate a bit of foot traffic during the caution—the service cars were out there already and track staff were attending to Ward five seconds after he landed, so they can't have been far off—and drivers should conduct themselves with…