Capitalism

They should do like Brazilian soccer teams - Shaquill keeps “Griffin”, Shaquem gets “Griffinho”.

The Eagles also once picked up an Aussie Rules guy as a punter (Sav Rocca). Do all teams do this I just never notice, or is Jeff Lurie some kind of exotic sports weirdo?

It’s the other way around, but Allen Iverson went from a pretty good high school prospect for football to a dynamite basketball player.

Play the ball as it lies, do what is fair, and don’t get eaten by alligators.

That seemed an apt metaphor for Williams’s tennis career as she comes back from maternity leave at age 36.

The word is highball.

No they don’t. Or, they do, but they also consider it Christian to forgive suitably conservative and rural white when they commit murder, which makes the same difference. NYC career women who do it only get an irrevocable one-way ticket to hell, of course.

Don’t Be a Menace
To South Central While Drinking
Your Juice in the Hood

Windows does shut down the computer when fast startup is used. It’s off, you can take the battery out, and everything. It doesn’t reload the kernel, but that’s really something you should only ever have to do in exceptional circumstances. And spare us the “I do it just to be on the safe side” crap - it’s not 1998…

Your remote has a mute button. Use it.

You could flip that around for Germany-Portugal during the World Cup, though.

Well, that and the fact that NFL scouts are fecklessly stupid in general, so they think they have to be douchebags to justify their miserable existence. “I contribute to the team by asking the rude, irrelevant questions everyone else has too much decency to ask!”

That’s “haricots verts”, not “haricoverts”

Gun owners are the best argument agains the Second Amendment.

Manuel Neuer should have been a shoo-in for it in 2014, to0.

True. Barcelona has declined to the point where they are only 15 points ahead of RM in La Liga. Why, Barcelona has almost lost a league match this year! Truly the mighty have fallen.

I not only appreciated it, I wanted others to get it too! Keep up the good work.

Tigers aren’t generally much of a threat to humans, except when faced with starvation, either due to being too old to hunt prey animals or habitat encroachment. Careless humans are easy to kill but not good eating, and inevitably bring reprisals, which is why tiger attack tends to be a fairly rare cause of death. The…

I agree you can’t really call it an ER. It needs a sui generis statistic, to emphasize the shame of it:

(D) - Disgraces self by being unable to carry out basic actions [such as dropping an ordinary ball while standing there and then being absolutely dumbfounded by it] that allows a run to score.