On the flip side, here’s the teams with the least cap room: New England, Carolina, Seattle, Atlanta, Baltimore, Miami, Pittsburgh, Philly. Outside of Miami, that’s basically a list of the most consistently successful franchises in the NFL in the past few years.

I notice this with the post-June 1 cap rule too (for those not familiar, releasing a player after June 1 who would leave dead cap money allows you to spread it out over two years instead of one) - punditry on just about every team always mentions how a team can cleverly save cap money the upcoming season by doing it.…

You can’t truly be naive enough at this point to believe that people haven’t long since learned to see through the rhetorical “both sides are bad” smokescreen used as a pathetic attempt to change the subject from accurate criticisms of Republicans, can you?

People were invested in Nathan Chen leading up to this because based on prior performances he was clearly the only American in men’s or women’s figure skating with the physical/technical skills to compete for gold. But, yeah, four years from now there may well be several other people that meet that description.…

I shudder to think what kind of millennials would voluntarily agree to be gathered by David Brooks for interviews about what they have faith in. Maybe he uses a frog net to forcibly gather them.

At least Massachusetts doesn’t spend every legislative session dreaming up new ways to make life more difficult for black people while diluting their representation and throwing up every conceivable barrier to their voting so they can’t elect anyone who will stop making their life more difficult.

You would think a lottery pick would be able to make it more than 18 months before being waived, but it’s more embarrassing that they saw the first 12 of those 18 months and decided to go ahead and guarantee *next* year’s salary for the guy for no apparent reason and then insist on making your hardball demand that…

Hard to tell if Arsenal is fun to watch, given that they’re playing “Ostersunds” in a non-televised Europa League round-of-32 game instead of holding their own with Juventus.

You don’t think the huge degree to which the MLS is a tax write-off shell game for investors rather than having more owners who care primarily about their team’s success is partially due to the way in which the MLS’s structure guarantees a profit? A lack of pro/rel isn’t the sole cause of that - you could not have it…

The NBA isn’t trying to break into the upper echelon of professional basketball leagues which already consists of numerous far superior non-American leagues.

Pro/rel has its supporters and detractors, but one reason MLS is so resistant to it is because of its structure as a single entity, which it seems clear is…

If going for it on 4th and 1 from the 9-yard-line produces higher than 3 expected points on average (pretty sure it does), why would it excuse not doing that if it’s early in the game? If anything it’s worse then because if you miss you have more time to get the points back.

They chose not to play their best cornerback?

The only example I can even think of of someone being “chosen” for one of our squads in Winter Olympics as opposed to just automatically qualifying through having the best results is figure skating, where in 2014 they took a photogenic white girl who finished 4th at nationals instead of the non-photogenic…

The Nets are all of one game out of the worst record in the league. Granted it’s a large pack, but it’s a lot more likely the pick is top 3 than out of the top 10.

By several different metrics, the UFC’s audience is declining.

If someone gets a promotion from, say, defensive line coach to defensive coordinator with a different team, I dunno if they’re gonna feel all *that* screwed if they end up working under a different coach than they expected. They still get presumably a huge raise that goes with the huge promotion.

I’m currently in season 6 of this year’s career with the Forest Green Rovers, who after three promotions in four years are now in the semifinals of the Europa League and 3rd in the EPL. Definitely a long-term project but if you love FIFA it’s a lot of fun to gradually take a team of 60s and turn it into a team of 85s.

I was really annoyed with how automatically the commentators assumed it was an incredibly risky call to go for it on 4th and goal from the 1 with 39 seconds left in the half. If you miss it, the odds of the Patriots driving down the field and getting into FG range are basically 0% - I can’t imagine they do anything…

That’s cool, but 1) it’s ridiculously unlikely to get enough merchants and/or events in a run to strip all the other cards from your deck, and 2) trying to do such a strategy would get you slaughtered in the new Ascension difficulties long before you emptied your deck. He’s basically showing an outcome he could…

He’s being ridiculous. If his dream was to go to Man City, Man City had the whole transfer window to start conversations with Leicester and end up at a fair middle ground. First we hear about it even being a possibility was on deadline day itself. They tried to jam Leicester at the last minute and despite having all…