You know who should have given Pacman and Burfict his playoff bonus? Jeremy fucking Hill, who fumbled on the first play after Burfict’s (brilliant) interception in field goal range. Luckily for him, no one remembers that because of the shitshow that followed (I still think the Pacman penalty was bullshit and that Joey…
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What a slimy and pompous little hot-take about “fan culture” you slid into the middle of your rant. News flash, dipshit: US soccer fans understand the significance of the Gold Cup. They’re not as stupid as you apparently wish they were. Also, they like it when their teams win games. Instead of preposterously blaming…
Oh fuck off with that bullshit. Making the knockout stage is a significant accomplishment, period. Have you seen the ridiculously easy pools that Mexico seems to luck into every four years? And the US is over here in the Group of Death more often than not? Christ, their 2014 group was Germany/Portugal/Ghana and you…
I don’t know much about soccer, although I am a sucker for international competition, but Morris seems like the soccer version of Kyrie Irving (or Carmelo Anthony): he sucks at everything except shooting, but he is a really good shooter.
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Nice. I went to Wildwood once, and enjoyed it. If you get a chance, try Lei-Out sometime.
Here’s another difference between the judged sports and the rest:
I was with you until the last sentence. Maybe it’s semantic, but I don’t think figure skating (and gymnastics, and diving...) are sports in the same way that baseball and basketball are. Take ballet. Most people understand that ballerinas train ridiculously hard, have incredible athletic ability, and there is a…
I was wondering if someone was going to mention Charles Blow. I haven’t read a ton of his stuff, but every column of his that I’ve read has been great. I think the first one I read was about the meeting at the Times offices just after the election when everyone just kowtowed to him, and Blow was like, “nah, fuck that”:
That has all the earmarks of the classic “one highlight for the US in their 3-1 loss” that I am so familiar with as a longtime fan.
Pulisic was wiiiiide open for an easy chance at dos a cero. He was behind the shooter, but still.
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Kerr is awesome and pretty much everyone thinks so.
I lost to an eight-year-old kid in the US Amateur Team East once. I was rated about 1900 and he was about 1700. I was White and was lost by move 10.
Pretty good.
Well, look on the bright side. If the athletic department folds and Cal has to cut football, then at least their alums will finally be able to say that their team got the axe.
Uh, in the 1990s there were the Pistons, Bulls, Knicks, and Magic from the East, and the Blazers, Lakers, Suns, Rockets, Sonics, Jazz, and Spurs from the West. That’s 11 teams out of a possible 20. So far this decade your count gives 6 out of a possible 16.
I was impressed by Kerr’s assessment of Mike Brown, basically saying that without consulting with him Brown is doing just about everything that Kerr would do in terms of adjustments and rotations—something about how whenever Kerr’s been watching on TV and thinking they should run a certain play or make a certain…
As a Bengals fan, the Chad Johnson breakout year where he did a new TD celebration every week was amazing. The team had been so bad for so long, and here was this super-potent offense that was fun to watch, with exciting young players. The celebrations themselves were fun and just on the right side of the line between…