It seems increasingly clear that the Bears’ management read about what obsessive weirdos a lot of successful coaches are, so they went out and hired the most obsessive weirdo they could find.

Very fitting to use a picture from 2014, roughly the last time Chevrolet/Manchester Untied had any plausible hope of contending in the Premier League (they did not).

No one comes out of this looking very good, but that horse collar takedown was a cheap shot.

I consider myself fairly knowledgeable and I can literally only come up with one other plausible right back—Kenny Tete, who currently does not usually start at Lyon.

Don’t worry, everybody west of Denver knows about this.

“There’s no more unifying force in established Washington journalism than the Nats,”...This is not a bandwagon. It’s a plague ship.

I assume she has already been berated by numerous Jets “fans” of the WFAN caller variety for engaging in some sort of conspiracy to help Osemele defraud the team or whatever.

The irony, of course, is that engaging in conduct that is in fact detrimental to the team’s performance (playing badly due to injury) is not actionable, but refusing to engage in it is....and they call it “conduct detrimental to the team.”

At an MLB franchise, of all businesses, in Houston, of all places, that might not narrow it down very much.

The inclusion of Billy fucking Joel while actual rock-adjacent geniuses like Prince and Bob Dylan are excluded is indefensible to me.

Right there with you.

1. Where are the Kinks? Jefferson Airplane? Motörhead also seems like a notable (albeit less notable) omission.

He published the story about the victims first, and didn’t remotely make it about himself. Now he wrote a second story, about his experience reporting the first. The second story may or may not be interesting in its own right (seems like it is!) and telling it doesn’t necessarily diminish the first story.

I share both of your afflictions (the insomnia and the nap-enthusiast missus). It would be easier if she didn’t flaunt her sleep talents so much...like when she says, right to my sleep-deprived face, “I’m going to take a nap now” and then zonks out in like 45 seconds. It’s very impressive.

I agree it’s not bush league too, but the Champions’ League undercuts his point, since until the neutral final all the knockout rounds are two-legged.

I agree it’s not bush league, but the Champions’ League undercuts your point—up until the final, which occurs at a neutral venue, all Champions’ League knockout rounds are two legs.

The stutter-step as he crosses the line in his penalty area, grimace as he jumps to field the ball, and immediate march off the field looks to me like he realized he’d come way too far out and the forward was going to beat him to the ball, and resigned himself to the intentional handball for lack of a better option.

In high school (not a high level in my case) I once scored from about 45 yards out in almost exactly the latter situation (goalie messing with his water bottle during a kickoff) except that it was in the middle of the game. The other team was slow to get back in their half after their goal, so we were all lined up…

It wasn’t clear to me whether he’d never heard the term or whether he wanted to clarify what the interviewer meant by it before answering. The latter, as another commenter pointed out, is a wise way to approach a potentially controversial question, especially when it turned out that the interviewer’s attempt at a…

I’m with you in theory, but these are Bills tickets—I just checked and tickets for each of their remaining home games cost less than my Pac-12 team’s tickets do, and about 20% of my local NFL team.