“That’s how we grew up. It was kind of normal. That’s it. It’s a learning experience for a lot of people to not use that word in this day an age.”

“I can’t explain why they would give me a substantial amount of money”

Just like with Bosa last year, at no point do the vast majority of mainstream pundits rail on management and ownership for quite possibly putting their team chemistry, culture, reputation, and potential success at risk by pissing off their own current and future stars in order to hardball them into incredibly nitpicky…

If you want light fluffy scrambled eggs, just turn the heat down more than usual and cook them longer. You don’t actually have to take them off the heat.

To be fair, there’s quite a bit of free time for non-governing activities in Mitch McConnell’s Senate.

Jozy Altidore is still just 28? Christ, he’s still going to be on the national team next World Cup isn’t he?

It’s the most logical explanation. Anything else just makes Belichek look even worse.

There are plenty of media outlets that do factual, unbiased reporting. The problem is that we have ended up in a place where an entire political party - one that also happens to control the entire government - has convinced themselves that factual, unbiased reporting inherently has political bias if the unbiased facts…

If they bring up football and are looking at you to make an informed response, just be like “I haven’t really been following it lately, been so busy I’m out of the loop”. Or, “I’ve actually been getting really into soccer after that awesome World Cup, do you watch Premier League?”

No sports fan expects every guy they…

There’s one way and one way only that people have to start turning things around: Vote. Every election, every race, no matter what. There are far more people that think this kind of stuff is insane and evil than benefit from it, but things only change when a sufficient number of people care enough to show up to vote.

I feel for people facing political persecution in Turkey, but if you’re a soccer player in Germany I feel like it’s abundantly easy to stay away from any situation that might lead to a photo op with Recep Erdogan. What, he’s gonna stalk you at the airport when you go to visit family? You really have to go out of your…

Troubled, I did some Google searches myself, but couldn’t find the types of articles he lambasted. For every alarmist article I found, there were another 10 to 15 responsibly reported ones

We as a society would be far better off if people who have managed to accumulate billions of dollars of other people’s money use, or better yet are forced to use, a sizable portion of that to pay for the healthcare of everyone with leukemia and other chronic expensive diseases, yes, since said billionaires have…

I do so hope Central Florida gets another Deadspin Preseason #1 title to add to the fake national championship they created for themselves to celebrate a season full of narrowly beating SMU, Temple, USF, and Memphis. At this point they’re going to need a larger imaginary trophy case.

The Facebook thing is particularly weird. Like, the wife really wants to see her husband’s high school friends’ updates? Or do they both delete their pre-wedding accounts and get a new one where the only friends they have are people they interact with together as a couple? I have to assume these are couples where…

Good job, good effort

Presumably “third-party markets like G2G or iGameSupply” exist because there are a lot of saps out there who are willing to buy accounts of f2p mobile games. When the games take in hundreds of millions of dollars in microtransaction revenue, at least some percentage of those whales are willing to pay to just skip even…

I’m sure some owners have made it abundantly clear to their players that they’ll be passing any such fines on to the players.

Michael Jackson: “Kobe, there was also a time when people criticized me for being too obsessed. I told myself, just keep on doing what you’re doing, and sure enough, just like you, I was able to make the lawsuits go away.”

Keep in mind that it’s not that 75M is outrageous for a goalkeeper given prices at other positions, it’s that goalkeepers are so valuable that the teams that have ones that good generally make them completely unavailable for sale. Buffon five years ago or Donnarumma now or Courtois or ter Stegen or Neuer would…