I wouldn’t lump in SW, or even Jet Blue, with Frontier and Spirit, in terms of matching cheapo fares. SW has long since stopped being a no-frills cheapo airline.. In the Chicago market, I find their fares from  Midway are sometimes higher than the Big Three from O’Hare. I generally prefer SW, however, because of…

For all its importance and undeniable impact, a lot of Ball Four is tedious retelling of baseball games.

Red Wings and Blackhawks were built on speed? They weren’t overtly slow, but the Blackhawks were more built on puck possession (and yes, plenty of skill, and three top-notch defensemen). I think of the Penguins 2016 as the first team in this era to truly use speed as a strategy in its own right. And toughness and size…

Looking at it from the other direction, How about the one that gave US women the win over Spain? That foul, if it was one, was not worthy of being punished with a near certain goal.

Soccer people seem to think it’s just normal for a call that basically award a goal to the US to be for a barely-a-foul play that didn’t blunt a scoring chance. Soccer, can you not come up with some kind of in-between punishment? Hockey doesn’t award penalty shots to any foul within a certain distance of the goal.

France Outlasts Brazil’s Tired Old Legs

I agree. If one checks out who some of these Dr.s are, their prominence and focus of practice are far more tied to their practice and affiliation outside of their team physician duties. I’ve heard James Andrews and others, like Brian Cole in Chicago, speak to fellow doctors about the team physician role and they tell…

Good point. Just because the PhD lets the guy call himself Dr. doesn’t make him a physician. The medical diagnoses and clearance would be done by MDs, primarily one or more orthopaedic surgeons probably.

Do hairy people really shed a lot of hair from their bodies in the shower? I thought it still mostly came from your head, and the short one generally clung to you pretty well whether you had many or few.

You mean Upchuck Lefley.

Listening to talk radio and watching ESPN, I’m convinced NBA fans devote more time and attention to who’s going where than to who’s playing now and what goes on in games. The injury drama of the finals added another wrinkle to the endless conversation.

The issue of the route is a red herring. There is simply no chance a near catastrophic plane crash, let alone one involving a celebrity, occurs either without notice at the time or, especially, without NTSB involvement.

“Between the puck arriving at Sanford’s stick and the goal horn sounding,”
Just a goal light when an opponent scores on the road. (Although it does seem like every hockey movie/show has a buzzer go off for any goal.)

No, Edzo just was pointing out that in an attempt to fake out Sundqvist, the player might have turned in a way Sundqvist didn’t anticipate, so the hit was more dangerous than Sundqvist intended.

Beer snobs never disappoint.

Exactly. In fact book publishers deliberately do not fact-check books so as not to be responsible for errors. They want the whole liability to rest on the author. (Also, publishers don’t want to pay to fact-check books.)

I get the objection to “accident,” but we really don’t have another well-understood noun to use for these kinds of events. I’d say “crash” is the closest one we have.

Not necessarily. One of the first things you learn in J school and from AP style is that “collision” should generally involve two or more moving vehicles or objects. So you don’t say “the car collided with a tree.” For this one, the way Deadspin described it is preferable to saying the kid’s car collided with the…

So tormenting rats would be funny? They are sentient animals.

The ultimate insult is that Meier got an assist on the goal. Like when a Chinese family gets a bill from the government for the bullet used to execute their family member.