You’re demanding that if anyone criticize a decision to take half a billion dollars in blood money, they must first come up with a viable plan that modernizes one of the most repressive regimes on earth, and if they can’t, they must concede that taking half a billion dollars in blood money is a decent second option?…

Really? Every single other team in the league is so upset over this one instance of “unwritten rules broken” (*never* heard of the unwritten rule that you can’t sub out your starting pitcher after one batter because that’d be mean to the other team who stacked their lineup specifically to beat the guy they thought…

If the Bills are just going to be shitty ex-Panthers, may I suggest Chris Weinke, Jake Delhomme, Jimmy Clausen, Matt Moore, or Rodney Peete if Derek Anderson goes down. Hell, Kerry Collins is still probably a better quarterback than Nathan Peterman at this point.

I expect Chargers games in a brand-new $2B stadium will be at least mostly full, if half with opposing teams’ fans. The problem isn’t that they don’t think they’ll be able to get 50k people in the building once it’s done, it’s that they want many of these 50k to preemptively pony up *five figures* just for the right…

Won’t *someone* think of the needs and feelings of the rich white people who attend golf tournaments with Republican congresspeople to commisserate about their shared horrible misfortune in life that someone they happened to share DNA with either did something heroic or got blown up in a desert they had no interest in…

You can also get in the shower *before* you turn the water on and just aim the showerhead to not point at you as you stand in the back for a few seconds while it heats up, that way you don’t splash no matter how you get in.

So, given that Russia, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia are all massively oppressive despotic governments, how about *none* of them are cool places for athletes to let themselves be used as pawns in political public relations operations, rather than just say we shouldn’t attack anyone? They’re not “carrying on with their…

If he literally has an entire side of the field to himself, they can probably get it to him. I’m guessing the defense just sticks their worst member of the secondary on him and both teams are content to have one player each basically sit the play out. Seems like it’s a worse deal for the offense, really.

Do you play online games? Try doing so as someone who the random teenagers you’ve matchmade with realize is gay and try to count how many “fag” references you’ll get. You’ll lose count before the first match is over. The gaming community at large is extremely homophobic and having queer gamers win things means a lot…

We’re all very proud that you managed to post a soccer article with one paragraph instead of a hundred and forty seven.

The Broncos defense was in the conversation of historically great defenses of all time just a few years ago with a lot of the same players that are on this roster. They have supposedly the single best defensive player in the league and were absolutely ecstatic about falling ass-backwards into a similarly amazing…

I’m not going to understand any of this unless you can tell me which episode of I Love Lucy this is like.

“Tapping into the Saudi market” could include such things like hiring Arabic-language broadcasters, focusing on the market in social media, etc. It doesn’t require getting fully into bed with the House of Saud by accepting the lavish bribes they pay everyone in order to get in bed with them. I’m sure the majority of…

If the Wells Fargo Center is anything like my NBA arena, there’s security guards at every entrance to the suite level who don’t let you marvel at the stylish textured wallpaper unless you have a suite ticket.

If it’s about whether he has trade value, then the Sixers are trying to rehabilitate him primarily not so he can be a solid contender to a championship Sixers team but rather so they can pawn him off on another team for a future draft pick before the other team figures out how fundamentally flawed he is? Why else…

They were also forced to play Sunday in Colorado, Monday in LA, Tuesday in Chicago, and Thursday in Milwaukee. If Jon Gray hadn’t shit the bed in his last start and the Rockies won the division by one game, it would have instead been: Sunday in Colorado, three days of rest, Thursday in Colorado hosting the Braves. I’m…

At this point, the faux victimization is the whole point. Regardless of how many books are sold the whole business strategy for people like this is: 1) Release shitty book about conservatives being oppressed (while simultaneously having control of just about every lever of power in this society). 2) Complain that the…

You’ve got 15 coaches on your list and one of them isn’t Vance Joseph?!

I for one can’t think of any way a group of competitive testerone-filled men in their early 20s could possibly improve their athletic performance than to be so bored in their hotel rooms on a nightly basis that they start making it a habit to go out with the boys “exploring” all the “cool cities” they visit. Screw the…

It’s an adjustment both ways. Going from altitude to sea level also screws hitters and pitchers up both. Freeland’s difference is because he grew up in Denver, his baseline muscle memory is the way pitches move at altitude. Hence, a 2.40 ERA at Coors and a 3.23 ERA at low altitude where he can’t put quite as much…