This was a single-market ad buy, right?

Off the top of my head, I’ll give you #10 behind (in no particular order):

I agree.

I’m pretty sure that Soccer United Marketing (a major player in the marketing and broadcast rights game in North America) is where the profits come in. The league and most team investor-operators (their terminology for “owners” in their single-entity world) have a stake in SUM, which also brokers U.S. National Team…

The only two surprising things about this are:

I worked a summer in the circulation services department of a major newspaper. I doubt that role exists any more as it’s definitely been automated/replaced by online services (but maybe not - some olds really love their paper papers and hate modernity). Anyhow, many of the staff in the department were black, but…

In a safe? I’m sure keeping a large sum of cash in a safe in your home is not super rare among people with career earnings over $100m.

I suspect the reason this is so serious as to be considered “conduct detrimental” is that having a coaching staff member cover a player’s expense would likely be a technical violation of the Salary Cap. A similar scenario came up in the NFL several years back when a coach (Dick Vermeil, I think) gave a player a bottle…

But he was about the seventh best player on the Fab Five Michigan team!

This is like talking to someone about your kids or your fantasy sports team when that other person didn’t ask and doesn’t care about kids or fantasy sports.

aka, keeping expenses low.

“I’ll 100% bet you” = “If I’m willing to put my balls on the table over this point and you’re keeping your balls in your pants, then I am more certain and therefore right.”

Could you make one of those shirts for me too?

What is your standard for “more successful”?
(genuine question, not trolling)

Unfortunately you are also female

The thing that has really galled Grassley this past week is that this is his committee and as the chair, he dictates what happens in its meetings and hearings.

They seem to cling to the Biblical/Samsonian (Samsonite?) notion that loss of hair is a sign of weakness.

This was a penalty. It probably isn’t a multi-game suspension for most guys, but as a repeat-offender, it’s gonna be excessive compared to this single offense in isolation. Not saying it shouldn’t, but that his reputation has outgrown a lot of his actual acts.

The letter goes on to point out that MLB players, even those who only appear on a major league roster for one day, are guaranteed health insurance for the rest of their lives. If baseball players are on a major league roster for 43 days, they are entitled to a lifelong pension. In the NFL, players only receive health…

I don’t have a problem with a vast majority of those being penalties. There are maybe five that I think were bad calls, probably because the ref making the call didn’t have an unobstructed sightline.