This was the first game I was able to watch on broadcast TV this year, what’s this business about streaming?

2019 qualifying, with none of Fiji, Tonga or Samoa auto-qualified is going to be a shitstorm.

That’s how we got the Welsh to vote for the English bid to host it.

Yes, I played American Football at university. But I’m British, so, let’s see:

I have no problem with them earning both endorsements and a salary, most professional sportspeople do exactly that.

Do you really not understand the difference between allowing the colleges to pay and requiring them to do so?

Again. No.

You misspelt “underpaid” as “paid”.

There are enough private schools that they could bid up the price of labor high enough to force the NCAA to let the public schools match them.

No-one’s proposing that colleges should be required to pay players (though I suspect that most D2 colleges could afford minimum wage, putting the players on the same level as the servers in the canteen), but that some should be allowed to. As soon as Alabama and Georgia and Florida and Oregon and Michigan are allowed…

And college athletes are worse paid. Even most pro athletes don’t make Kardashian money.

You want an amateur who can commit 50 hours a week out of love? Better be a rich one.

If they were receiving an education in football - ending up with a degree overtly in Football Studies - as part of earning a job in professional football (ie in the NFL) then we would, rightly, criticise the universities for graduating far too many Football Studies students for the number of jobs available and call…

Is Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario still the only player with a career winning record over Serena? Other than a couple of players with 1-0 records, she was last time I checked, but the WTA’s website is even worse than it ever was.

Marianne Vos. Has a better record than Merckx already and she’s only halfway through her career.

Following the opposite logic, why not say that only players that started can pitch? If you want a relief pitcher, put them in left field for the first six innings.

Nope. It threads between other tube lines. That’s the Northern Line below the Drill-Here mark, and the Tottenham Court Road escalators above. Clearance: 35cm below, 60cm above, less than a metre each way laterally.

The other problem is that if you want to buy land in London, it looks like a perfectly reasonable price per acre. Then you realise it’s per square foot and your eyes boggle.

In India, the families that did this were put into separate castes, and that’s how the Untouchable castes started.

The rich Romans had a sponge-on-a-stick in their toilets for that purposes.