Unless you’re rich, you kinda have to make bad financial decisions to regularly attend NFL games. I don’t understand how so many working-class people do it when it can easily be $500+ per game if you’re taking even some of your family.

I can’t help but think from seeing this wildly disproportionate amount of pundit blowback about what by all indications looks like an eminently reasonable contract for Sherman’s age and injury status - one that doesn’t have any portion of it going to agent fees - and wonder how much less blowback a non-outspoken…

It’s up to the players. I don’t understand why so many of them are down to participate in this shell game of fake extra contract years. You got $24M guaranteed in the first two years as part of a “five-year, $60M contract” you, your agent, the team, the fans, and everyone knows is going to be torn up after two years?…

In basketball each team makes dozens of field goals per game - intentionally fouling on one fast break isn’t likely to make a big difference. This is more like an intentional handball in soccer, which is a straight red and an automatic PK (which still isn’t generally considered cheating, I think, though).

Almost everyone turns 18 during their senior year of high school, unless they either skipped a grade or had a birthday between June and August. Of all the complaints that one’s the most ridiculous.

Hey, we should consider everyone’s feelings here.

I’m sure she felt it was quite a degrading experience to actually have to step foot in a public school.

If Kane were offsides and scored a stoppage-time goal that should have been called off that could have changed the winner of a Champions’ League tie (they’d have gone to extra time, I know), the VAR/anti-VAR conversations would have been very interesting.

Does this actually happen? I mean, I’m sure it has a few times, and I remember it being an occasional problem back when high school kids could get drafted, but how often are college underclassmen declaring and signing with an agent with a second-round grade, let alone doing so and then not getting drafted? At that…

I would question the assumption that 100% of people interested in cycling don’t care whether or not doping is going on. I assumed “Olympic Athletes from Russia” were doping when I watched the recent Olympics, and that wasn’t a reason not to watch, but a great many people still care and get upset if entire athletic…

Regardless of the city you’re in, the best restaurants have one-page menus. If your menu is a phone book with multiple food traditions, you’re probably at a Cheesecake Factory and everything on the menu is going to be mediocre.

ESPN was correct in a Feb. 24 SportsCenter video talk back

Dave Bliss was so disgraced he had to go to the one place he knew he could get a job - a red-state Bible college.

I know Sixers fans are perpetually in “we can totally win five years from now” mode, but this is absurd. It’s not remotely a fair question. Adding Lebron immediately makes the Sixers the strong favorite in the East for next year and at least 2-3 years after that. Adding George gives them...another borderline all-star.…

So...they preemptively stuck $5M of dead cap money onto both their 2019 and 2020 rosters for the opportunity to be able to cut ties with Bortles next year for only a $16.5M 2019 dead cap charge, when they could have just done nothing and had no cap charge after this year if they just paid his fifth-year extension and…

I mean, it’s the same stigma the MLS rightfully had a decade ago. Yes, China has Manuel Pelligrini managing a 33-year-old Javier Mascherano, a 32-year-old Ezequiel Lavezzi, and 25 random mediocre Chinese players. It’s still a pretty embarrassing league for a European player in his prime to choose.

I think the idea is it’s the equivalent of a decent young NBA sixth man deciding to leave the NBA after a few years and go play in China for $30M a year. Good for him, I guess, in making big money, playing regularly, and doing it in a massive market, but he’s not going to get any better going up against third-tier…

Hmm, yes, after careful consideration it does in fact seem like it could be a good idea for a figure skating program to teach their skaters to do difficult jumps. I know it’s a big risk, but the US might want to consider doing that.

Ask any soccer fan whose team goes into the second half of a tie with a 3-0 lead and then gives up two quick first-half goals how nervous they’re feeling after the second one.

The shootout was I think 12:10 am mountain and 11:10 pm pacific - plenty of people in those zones will stay up to watch the ending of a monumental sporting event. Sucks for the east coast, obviously.

Nothing is going to bring ratings back because ratings are falling for the same reason they are in every sport - more people every year are no longer paying for cable. But there’s a larger issue where the baseball fan base is getting really old on average and younger generations gravitate to more faster-paced sports.…