Why do people write personal essays about why they dislike soccer, then feel the need to substitute "Americans" where the word "I" belongs?

Pat actually apologized to me during commercial break. He may be outspoken about homosexuality but when confronted with it head on he was very nice. I think next time I'm on TV YourTatoosAreLame can be my stylist. Seems he has more fashion sense than this homosexual. #yourtattoosarefaaaaaaabulouuuuusss

That's a great part of being a kid is you can legitimately celebrate a hard-fought video game sporting achievement. When you're an adult on a cross-country flight getting a hole-in-one on Mario Golf on the 3DS, you have to do so with Tom Brokaw-like seriousness, or when you wife asks you why you're in a such a good…

True story: I beat Tyson as a kid. I was playing at the neighbor's house with their two kids and we were doing the typical 10-year old thing - playing video games all night until our eyes bleed. It was about midnight (Saturday) before I worked my way up to Tyson. I had faced him before and, like most people, got curb…

Let's be honest, the crux of your argument is about competitive imbalance. If you're going to be pedantic and point out that certain players on those Bulls and Lakers teams weren't chosen (by fan voting BTW) to start those games as opposed to just appearing in them (which is more based on actual performance) you're…

You're shitting me right? The last time the Bucks were in the finals was 1974, their last championship was 1971. That strawman 11-year old you conjured up doesn't give a shit if Carmelo signs with the Heat or not, because it doesn't make any difference to his team's chances, and he or she wasn't even born the last…

So first, this is not true at all, and unfairly stacked teams are compelling exactly because they are unfairly stacked, and will either be historically great or unaccountable flops, or beaten in some memorable fashion. We're doing a thing soon on historic performance in the finals, and the Bird and Magic teams were…

a team that would be literally 4/5 multiple-time All-Star Starters in the primes of their career absolutely undermines that.

The league has always been competitively unbalanced. Why do you think the Celtics have 17 championships and the Lakers have 16, with many of those coming in series where they faced each other. The next team on the list is the Bulls with 6 championships, and all came within 7 years of each other.

You're not asking for competitive balance. If that were the case, you'd be calling for a revamp of the draft lottery, non-guaranteed contracts and a relegation system to punish franchises that operate with unsound principles year in year out.

I thought fines were supposed to be levied based on actions, not outcomes.

No, I remember the four missed free-throws costing them the game, and not this flop by Wade.

Terrible? Yes.

The way I understand it, it's Title IX: "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."

One (of many)reason: Because the justice system really has to wait for a conviction to take action, which can be a slow an bureaucratic process, and requires "beyond a reasonable doubt". While the case is being investigated, the ability to remove the accused from campus is limited.

I don't understand why anyone ever reports anything that you specifically aren't interested in.

Oklahoma is an at-will state. An employee can be fired for no cause (though most respectable HR professionals would advise against that), so long as no federal laws governing employment discrimination were violated.

And IIRC Oklahoma is a "right to work" state, which basically means an employer, especially a private employer, can fire you for whatever reason they want, assuming it doesn't fall into some explicitly prohibited area like race etc.

You should care about how they're paid, especially in salary cap leagues. In the NFL, futzing with deals to minimize cap hits is every bit as important to team success as signing and drafting.

It's almost like you didn't read the entire post