An actual hard salary cap, the kind the NFL uses, would have been better. As-is, the existing NBA cap has so many loopholes that it’s useless in prohibiting great teams from getting even better. A team that’s over the cap shouldn’t be able to offer a $5M contract to any free agent, period. But the NBA allows this.…

Dwight Howard, DeMarcus Cousins, Isaiah Thomas, and James Jones are all still available to fill out the roster! Carmelo isn’t, but I bet he will be soon. This could be the actual most hilarious team of all time.

However many said guys there are, we can be assured each and every one of them will be showing up on each and every Deadspin football article’s comments to tell us all about their changing viewing habits.

After the fight he was asked what the hell happened, and because he has a 256-54-10 record, he mumbled incoherently asking what decade it was. 

So, you may not be aware of this, but Tebow actually had a professional sports career before his Mets years. In said career, he was consistently one of the most newsworthy and controversial athletes in all of sports, due to a combination of going out of his way to publicly insert evangelical Christianity into sports…

Colombia in particular isn’t a W for England, but the knockout draw in general is a W for England because now they can get to the semifinals with Colombia being the toughest opponent they face, instead of a highly-likely heavily-underdog matchup against Brazil in the quarters. They might not get past Colombia, but…

Also first seeing porn at age 12, an event which had a major impact on their life: every single teenage boy ever who somehow didn’t manage to see it before 12. Truly they are paragons of self-restraint to have such a traumatic event happen to them and not go off molesting toddlers.

(There probably is something to the…

There’s not currently any penalty for intentionally choosing a style of play that results in fewer possession and shots - for underdogs, it’s often the right strategic call. That would be a pretty major impact to suddenly punish teams for that, and could lead to all sorts of weird incentives (teams suddenly start…

They can just tell him they’ll take down his statue outside the stadium if he’s a deadbeat.

If someone doesn’t have an actual position by now on whether the stuff Trump’s been doing as president is ok or not, I’m sorry, but they’re part of a bunch of morons. Is it helpful to say that? Maybe not, but then what is helpful? If someone just chooses to go through their entire life utterly oblivious to current…

What does “laying the foundation for a multi-year scholarship program” mean? That doesn’t sound like “actually paying for scholarships for kids”. How much money is this thing supposed to actually make? Sounds more like a ridiculous PR stunt - a few random mining machines aren’t going to just make millions and millions…

Bitcoin: the 4-on-5 defense of currencies.

Yes, and the most likely outcome of “Sweden beats Mexico 3-0 while Germany plays South Korea” is that Germany beats South Korea, resulting in Mexico losing the three-team tiebreaker and getting bounced from the group stage, because the first tiebreaker is goal difference, not head-to-head. They were lucky to avoid…

Some period of time in prison would be a damn good start, yes, instead of his athletic talents allowing him to buy off the silence of the woman he beat and escape his heinous crime completely unpunished by the legal system. That would be followed by him being unable to find a further career in the industry of…

...After Jerry Jones gave the woman-beater a second chance he didn’t deserve in the first place, when no other owner was willing to go near that piece of shit. If the guy had kept putting up 12-15 sack seasons he’d probably still be a Cowboy.

Many of the same people also seem to like to go with “both parties are bad” and “all politicians are corrupt” to try to handwave away having to come up with a decent reason why they always find a way to justify voting for the Republican.

Well, at least “The Eagles of Carthage” is a pretty badass team name.

In Denver, where we were just “disrupted” by both Lime and Bird in the past few weeks, the existing regulations require these things to be only on the sidewalks. They can’t even use roads even if they wanted to. Personally I’d treat them like bikes where they can use bike lanes or roads but not sidewalks, and if…

I’m assuming it took time for Nike’s internal teams of lawyers and compliance experts to have meetings to debate the current relatively unclear state of what economic activity with Iran is and isn’t currently allowed in order to come to the conclusion that they weren’t sure what would or wouldn’t attempt to get…

The last time a baseball contract was structured this way it was because the owners of the franchise had so much investment sense and were making so much money investing that the deferred money would be covered several times over by the 8% yearly returns their friend Bernie Madoff was getting them.