But the point is correct that the announcer go easy on the flops and remark on down players way too credulously instead of with a “Oh come on!” We more casual soccer fans often feel like we are watching opera rather than sport.

After the landing she looked like my cat when he’s screwed up a jump and tumbled. “nothing happened, part of the plan”

I’m wondering about that back door--how does it not open from the inside? Looks like maybe he didn’t really push the mechanism.

With some of these, I’m not getting whether the term is listed because white people say it when they should be saying “black people” or that they are saying it because they fear scolding if they say “black people” or that they are using it as racist code (“thugs”). Some of these terms are often used by preference by…

Putting MD after a last name is as dumb as the trend of putting Jr and III after a last name on a jersey. No one used to even bother to make the distinction unless the father was known (then there is the absurdity of “Sr” after the name—so we don’t think it’s your toddler out there?). But if your name is Jesse Jackson…

Hockey now does have diving rules—though the penalty is never called without also calling the “foul” that caused the dive. Hockey is nothing like soccer in this bent, but players have mastered the art of recoiling and snapping their head back when there is even a whiff from a stick blade up high by their face.…

I’ve always thought hardcore soccer fans are really looking to watch opera, not sport.

Any time the toy stretcher comes out, the player should have to subbed out for 5 minutes.

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Get rid of this crap, which defines soccer for many nondiehards, and more people will be interested in those games.

Show your work, please. American soccer fans: you are annoying. Don’t fear, you’ve got your FC and United kits all to yourself.

I don’t think the analogy is apt. Nobody wants to watch basketball like that, but a lot of golf viewers enjoy watching pros battle tough courses and get into trouble. The players are a lot more bothered than the fans.

I never understand complaining about the difficulty of course. Golf is a game where you play against everyone else on the same field, and scoring is relative to the competitors, not the course. Is it better, or more “fair,” to lose to the guy who played better than you on a course that was easy for both of you? Phil,…

Still, if his problem wasn’t related to collisions, this was not a football-specific medical incident. Other sports have rigorous workout regimens.

This could well be the explanation, especially since the school hasn’t released what caused his distress, and schools and coaches come in for a lot of questioning when their athletes take on rhabdo due to overexercise. It was a bit of a scandal at Iowa.

Federal prosecutors said on Tuesday that from the end of 2017 up until this past March, McFarland headed a company whose purpose was to sell fake tickets to fancy, big-name events such as Burning Man, Coachella, and the Met Gala.

I also just read a review that ran the playlist including the encore. About a third of the show and most of the old favorites were in the encore.

I would say he does get a lot of credit for his baserunning, but baserunning in general doesn’t get enough credit as a skill. It’s often treated as something anyone can get good at if they try; it’s one of those things “we’re going to work on in spring training.

I find it odd that Bee is given so much status as a commentator and comedian. She has a weekly half hour show on cable. That’s about 20 minutes of content.

But some are iffy. On the Oshie goal, he had slid away from the net and was not close to getting back to it, like he was doing his old acrobatics excess.