Or you’re playing against Chelsea.

9 hours after this is posted, 69 replies...and not one single remark about the Smiths’ “Suffer Little Children”? You guys are either off you game or you don’t know enough Smiths songs.

Listen to “I Feel You.” (or better yet, watch the video!)

Spike is too busy selling his house for $32M to worry about Nike’s piddly $1M in bribes.

this sounds like a case of Nike just trying to cover their own ass

I’m saying they should have the option to do it. I’m pretty sure Chelsea would pay > $100M for a berth, and I’m pretty sure LCFC would benefit more in the long term from a larger stadium than from 6 games getting stomped by Napoli and Anderlecht.

In fairness, this is a long, long way off from an accurate parallel. European soccer clubs are private corporations. They’re profit-maximizing entities. They can change ownership. They can go out of business. They pay players (legally).

Bayern Munich - As an American Peruvian, I’m a huge fan of Claudio Pizarro. Found out he played for Bayern. There you go.

Not exactly the same, but I think Leicester (or anyone else) should be permitted to sell their CL berth to other PL teams.

You know she tweeted the piece, right?

Publicly airing private grievances is unprofessional, period. I don’t know if she’s crazy, but if she expected to keep her job after eviscerating her boss in public she’s either crazy or she has a very low level of emotional intelligence. I’m sure Rachel Maddow would rather be doing different things, too, but she’s…

Is this woman known as Jane Doe IV to distinguish her from Jane Does 1-3 who were also raped by UT football players?

“Welp, they have the guys who can do that, and we don’t.”

Leicester has the easiest schedule of the contenders. They’re also in first place. For many other teams those would be enough to make them heavy favorites to win the title, but the talent gap between Leicester and the other contenders is so massive it’s hard to name them the favorites.

You might be right; I only wrote about the one because it’s the one I heard about.

As I wrote in another post, I think the problem is that the third accuser withheld important information from the prosecutors and the police until the day before she was scheduled to testify. If I were a prosecutor and had put years of work into bringing Ghomeshi to justice, I would feel really angry at a witness who…

accused the women of deliberately withholding information from the prosecution that would have complicated their stories or called them into question

That reporter actually looks a bit like Nick Denton.

In fairness, “giving up your seat” meant something different in LA in the 80s.

Reminds me of Bill Maher riffing on the JFK assassination: the government can’t even deliver the mail! How could they possibly assassinate the POTUS with nobody finding out about it?!