If it were really even remotely that simple, if the CBA actually laid out a specific punishment for exactly what he is alleged to have done, then the case would have been a slam dunk win for Brady. Whether or not you think the punishment fits the crime (obviously you don’t, I’m a Bears fan so I honestly could not…

For the last ~9 years my father has been the executive director of a non-profit education foundation that sends underprivileged Chicago teenagers to private high schools on scholarships (roughly half go to local private high schools in Chicago, the others go to boarding schools all across the country). Qualification…

He’s not facing a possible 2 year ban like Jones, but until Anderson Silva stepped up and said he’d fight Cormier in Jones’s stead the positive test was just as crushing for Cormier as it is to Jones in the short term. If the fight had been canceled all together, which is certainly what it initially looked like was…

The point isn’t that the Heat owed Wade anything for his loyalty and betrayed him, because they didn’t. The whole point is that the Heat don’t owe Wade anything. And it’s a point that other basketball players, and professional athletes in general, should take to heart. If you truly value championships, or camaraderie,…

Unfortunately I had long since graduated from college and moved on by the time weed was legalized for recreational use in Colorado, but yes that does give it an overall leg up on PA. For the record though when I said that Colorado was unequivocally worse than PA I was specifically talking about laws and regulations…

I went to college in Colorado, and I can unequivocally say that it is worse than Pennsylvania. Not only are all liquor stores closed on Sunday by state law, but you can’t even get real beer or wine on Sundays because only liquor stores are allowed to sell those too. Oh sure you can go into a grocery store and see…

First off, sorry for starting off with “That is just dumb”, didn’t need to be contentious off the bat. Now, a couple of quick counter-points to your responses:

That is just dumb. Fabbri had a good-not-great rookie season while Schmaltz was kicking ass at UND, and there’s no reason to think that Schmaltz won’t be as good as Fabbri if not better in his own rookie season this year now that he’s left college and signed with the ‘Hawks. There are much better ones from recent…

Crow is not going anywhere, the notion that he might is not based in reality. First and foremost, the ‘Hawks needed him to put up Vezina-caliber performances last season just to finish 3rd in the division and nobody harbors any illusion that they’d have done so with Darling backstopping them. Darling is very good, he…

2 quick points:

So a 29-year-old (i.e. at or possibly past his peak) defenseman who is realistically slotted as 3rd pairing guy at 5-on-5 and a PP specialist who QB’s the #1 unit (even if Alain Vigneault refused to use him in that capacity) while getting absolutely nowhere near the PK is somehow worth $6.35M annually for 7 years?…

It’s pretty fucking terrible, no doubt, but is it really all that much worse than Dave Bolland or David Clarkson’s contracts? Brian Bickell’s contract is also up there - it was a major factor in the ‘Hawks need to trade Brandon Saad last summer, and it cost the ‘Hawks Taraveinen to be able to move it this summer.

Losing TvR in next summer’s expansion draft would not be the end of the world with both Pokka (who I all but guarantee the ‘Hawks will protect) and Forsling (thankfully exempt) waiting in the wings. TvR has been a very pleasant surprise as a college UFA, but if we’re being completely honest he was out of his depth as…

Wait wait wait, a former Cardinal has a scorching hot take on classiness? Go on...

As much as I’d love to see him try it, I’m pretty certain you’ve got hockey way too high on the list. The issue with hockey is skating, if you don’t learn how to ice skate as a kid it’s nearly impossible to learn as an adult. The only way that hockey can be at #9 ahead of cricket, baseball and golf is if Lebron is…

There are 2 major differences between a good basebrawl and a staged fight in hockey that I think lead to the enjoyment of one over the other. The first is a better understanding of the long-term affects of repeated head trauma and the difference in how common it is across the 2 sports - in baseball head trauma is not…

There is literally 0 chance the Weber is moved for a high draft pick. Maybe Josi, but definitely not Weber. First and foremost, Weber’s trade value is nowhere near high enough to be able to expect a high 1st round pick (or really any 1st round pick) in return. He’s on the wrong side of 30, has a massive cap hit for a…

Ref couldn’t completely tell that the ball went in. Fine. What about the obviously defeated reaction of the goalkeeper? It doesn’t exactly take a body language expert to read that...

Pitch Perfect is one of the absolute worst baseball movies ever made

I personally am really looking forward to the Sharks-Caps SCF if only out of curiosity as to what sort of apocalyptic event will prevent the Cup from being awarded