Start bribing the Caribbean countries to bring CONCACAF with you. Fools. You’re the USA, the richest country in the world. If you can’t out-bribe Sepp Blatter, then you’re not trying.

I saw Viv Richards bat. I’ve never seen a batsman scare a bowler before or since. The other way around, I’ve seen plenty of - intimidatory bowling is part of the game. But Viv would take on the best, fastest bowlers, take their best balls, and smack them out of the park.

Ball isn't dead when the defense gets possession, though; they can fumble it back again and the offense score a touchdown (ie 2-point conversion).

I moved house and live within walking distance of my office for exactly that reason.

Panjab is a region in India. Punjab is want we idiot English called it because we weren't listening properly the first time and then spent a couple of hundred years "correcting" the Indians.

The only other place I see "female" used as a noun referring to human women is by anti-trans people who self-identify as feminists. They'll concede that transwomen are women, and then turn around and say they want female-only spaces, not women-only spaces.

Having a warship or a big ocean liner named after you has to go pretty high on any list. George H. W. Bush has an aircraft carrier named for him, as does Queen Elizabeth II

Victoria Cross above the Medal of Honor (a slightly larger fraction of VCs are posthumous than MoHs suggesting it's a bit harder to get), but above both is either the MoH with Oak Leaves or the VC and bar - given for winning the award twice in two separate actions. 14 Medals of Honor with Oak Leaves were awarded,…

Bobby belting the ball

Catch a home run without it touching the ground.

No, the British equivalent to Axe is Lynx. Ralgex is a spray-on version of Ben-Gay.

So you've done it by current alignment and by contemporaneous alignment. Can you do it by original alignment? That is, the conference the team was a member of in their first CFB season.

Welcome to pro-cycling; if you can ride your bike again a year later, that's regarded as a good injury.

Israel used to be in AFC; it didn't work because there is a limit to how much rigging of the draw you can do to keep them apart (especially when you have to keep Iran apart from some of the more anti-Shia Arab countries).

There is an unarguable second in that category: George Best. But Di Stefano was better. Says this United fan.

That sounds like a description of the 1990 final

Wrong Arsenal manager. I think you wanted George Graham.

Yup, they used to be purple before; you can still find purple carrots occasionally in fancy shops.

Is there Own Goal in the leading goalscorers? That might be even more sickening - only scoring one goal and it's an OG

My grandfather was conscripted in 1939 but didn't fight until Madagascar in 1942. He was then transferred to the King's African Rifles because of a talent with languages - the language of command in the KAR was Swahili - and then served for two years in Burma. He led deep raids behind Japanese lines on more than one…