Never been to an EPL game but I would certainly assume if I went to a Man U pub, in Manchester, just before the occasion of one such game, wearing a goofy-ass “both sides” scarf I clearly just bought in a room full of hardcore fans getting drunk, I wouldn’t be leaving without that scarf at the very least getting some…

The guy goes “I demand you blow up this team midseason and wreck the future of the franchise by not being able to get close to fair value for me, because I demand to go right now during the season instead of after it” and the people responsible for the toxic environment are the executives who quite correctly told him…

The point was never that it was illogical to choose not to pay free agents in their early 30s huge contracts. People agree the owners are acting logically. The point was that the system is seriously rigged against the players when they don’t get to free agency until their early 30s only to find owners have wised up…

It’s not a terrible ad, but give me a break, “Budweiser can afford the production and airtime”. This isn’t a charitable donation of theirs. They ran this ad because the same unpleasant marketing people who approved flooding the airwaves with Dilly Dilly and Corn Syrup King had some meetings and spreadsheets and…

If you’re an “extreme gluten avoider” who’s one of the few people who has legitimate serious health reasons for doing so, it’s really not a good idea to be eating out at all in restaurants that don’t specialize in those rather strict restrictions.

If on the other hand you avoid it because you think it “makes your…

The guy who thinks you stop jerking off at 50 is like 18 max right? Man, what a stupid question.

Gotta say, given “evidence of the prohibited communications, which, after reviewing, forced them to take action” from the actual devs of the game, versus a tryhard who goes with “I did nothing wrong and am being framed by the devs who are unfairly not debating their decision with me”, I’m gonna go with the former…

That’s nice but also completely unrelated to Rubio’s actual disingenuous stance here, which as with every Cuba-related issue for him is “make life as difficult as possible for actual Cubans so ‘pressure’ will cause the collapse of communism, which will surely be any day now”.

Yeah, I mean, this is what the upside looks like. They threw away five seasons, nailed two of their many top picks, traded their assets for good veterans, and now they have...a 50-win team that could stand a puncher’s chance at the teams above them in the East, but would need a miracle to win three straight playoff…

Nice red card.........for me to poop on.

It’s serious, significant, and widespread in both Europe and the US (I wouldn’t say North America so much, Canada’s not nearly as bad). But in the US, perhaps due to oddities of our culture, it’s a more passive-aggressive form of racism where they just talk about “those people” and make sure their kids don’t go to the…

There’s also the matter of Arenas, uh, bringing a gun to the locker room to intimidate a teammate who owed him money.

The NCAA has you by the nuts, and it knows it. Same way FIFA does. Same way the NFL does. Every season, these entities devise new ways to test your patience.

I read it as basically “I’m such a big deal that not only will I be back on this show, I’ll be back as a real host”. Makes the response all the more amazing.

This is the game whose competitive scene consists entirely of players insisting on only using extremely-specific 15-year-old controllers and CRT tvs, right? Yeah, I’m sure they’ve got quite a few strongly-held thoughts on what are and are not “acceptable” ways to play. Meanwhile it seems like the rest of the fighting…

“It says here you’ve failed to make the NCAA tournament three of the past four years. I’m afraid we’re going to have to do some serious soul-searching about the culture of this program.”

The WNBA doesn’t make money, the NBA treats it like a loss leader because it’s good for growing the game to new audiences. The NHL could easily “have success” in running and keeping open such a women’s league if they wanted. It would just require being willing to accept a small yearly loss, which apparently is the…

We’re gonna have 15 years to watch Zion play in the NBA. I’m perfectly ok with spending next weekend continuing to laugh at Duke for not making the Final Four with one of the most stacked rosters you’ll ever see.

it’s hard to have a lot of patience for candidates who don’t yet feel comfortable (figuratively) rolling up their sleeves and getting specific as to what they want.

To anyone who’s fortunate enough to have never been in such a position: as soon as a regular paycheck starts getting delayed without a very good explanation, that’s a warning sign you’re about to stop getting checks altogether from that job.

Of course, some such companies pair that latter outcome with telling you that…