“...a sports arena can simultaneously be a trash dump while still being active.”

Good point — even more relevant, the UC arena (Fifth Third Arena) is going to be modernized literally later this year, to the tune of $70 million. It will be smaller (11,500 seats) but it should be a more than fine place to watch a game in 2022.

If that’s too small for the NCAA 1st and 2nd round, well, so bet it; I did…

Ah, OK...got it. Thanks for the explanation.

Not sure what you are talking about...are you asking me to read the article? Fine, I did. But the NYT should realize in the 21st century, the headline for print, for the Facebook news item, for the tweet means a huge portion world doesn’t operate that way.

Yes, the tennis world really has made a hash of the Davis Cup — it is a great opportunity to have a big, meaningful event, but by scheduling it essentially year round and at no seemingly consistent time, they exhaust everyone. I’m a pretty big tennis fan and I have no idea who has recently won, what the schedule is,…

Co-signed. One of the reasons I cancelled my NYT subscription and started my WaPo subscription after the election was the dramatic drop in quality due to the move from Sullivan to Spayd. It meant the NYT (which produced some real crappy access journalism, particularly when it came to the FBI, during the campaign)…

It happens. I’ve learned not to trust — especially in “roundup” stories like this — the roundup author’s pithy “summary” of what someone said or did, or commenter’s riff of that summary.

Bigger picture, these types of stories have to give liberals pause about such “inevitable demographics” type of plans, such as “Once Texas gets more brown people, we’ll start winning statewide offices for sure.” It’s not, remotely, a straight line, or that easy.

There are plenty of people like Helen who once entered…

What are talking about — “doesn’t want to admit”?

Holy crap, I thought your figure was a typo, but it’s not: it was $228 million in 2015. That’s a higher than typical figure, but it looks like they “typically” pay around $100 million ever year. I would have never have guessed that.

Interesting that’s your takeaway from an article whose whole point is that the author thinks teams should draft Deshaun Watson over Mitchell Trubisky.

(BTW: Tannehill was not, by a long shot, the only “nugget” where a white QB is given as a bad example; there are at least 10. For example, the article’s subheader is…

Well let’s see:

Bad QBs (or QBs with negative mentions) in article:
- Ryan Leaf, Ryan Tannehill, Mitchell Trubisky, Cam Newton, Heath Shuler, Donovan McNabb, Jay Cutler, Johnny Manziel, Patrick Ramsey, Jason Campbell, RGIII, Jared Goff, JaMarcus Russell, David Carr, Tim Couch.

““If one is going to foul, it helps to do it with under four seconds left, as Gonzaga did,” Pomeroy said. “That reduces the possibility for an ‘insta-loss.’”

I agree that’s the key. And that’s the challenge with some of these examples (e.g., Xavier-OSU or Kansas-Memphis). To take the latter game, a “safe”…

More immigrants taking jobs in Washington. Sad!

I don’t know what happened to that band. I’m often too drunk to remember.

How’s my drinking?

Hey, that’s fine by me — I don’t care about UND sports.

I will point out: “Women’s hockey ticket sales created $21,377 in revenue 2015; football generates the second most in ticket sales revenues, generating $410,486 in 2015.”

Good guess, but nope. That other bugaboo — decrease in state funding and the need to increase scholarship funding in other sports (e.g., women’s golf, softball).

“The cuts are part of a school-wide effort to trim budgets because of an anticipated drop in state funding. UND President Mark Kennedy told the athletics…

...and they had previously cut (men’s) baseball and men’s golf, though they later brought back golf.

So while it is a great hook to a story to highlight a recruit on campus when a sport gets cut, and incredibly callous and terrible management by the UND administrators to not announce this, in person, to the coaches and…

There is an easy, completely passive aggressive way for the NCAA to handle this:

Wow, I had no idea what “Lularoe” is — it’s frightening.