Guy learned his lesson a long time ago that being professional and being amorous shouldn't mix.

Wait, the takeaway from that paragraph is that it's tough to be a Marlins fan? I'd happily take a 2:3 World Series to firesale ratio.

Biggest surprise to me is Washington not being higher on the list — lots of rivalry games and RGIII as a draw. I guess one explanation is that this is comparing to an opponent's average ticket price, and Washington plays in a division full of popular teams, meaning they're all driving up their opponents' average…

This sounds like a ridiculously overly cautious approach to NCAA rules, but my guess is that Maryland's real concern is an Ohio State or Johnny Manziel situation — that players will autograph and resell game balls. In that case, it may be kind of smart.

While you're getting yourself educated, go watch the documentary "Hot Coffee." You don't know what you're talking about on that subject, either.

"Risk" isn't an either/or thing. It exists in degrees. It's also something to factor in when deciding how much money you're willing to accept to perform a job. If your employer actively hides from you the amount of risk inherent in your job, "common sense" says they should have to compensate you for that.

Something I've never really seen addressed is whether ESPN has any obligation to be "journalistic" in the first place. Obviously, since they claim to take journalism seriously, Deadspin and others are right to take them to task when they fail to meet basic standards of journalism. But would there be anything wrong…

My hope is that EA Sports comes up with knockoffs of the NCAA and the conferences that opt out that are as thinly veiled as, say, the mobile white sophomore quarterback who wears #2 for Texas A&M but is definitely not Johnny Manziel. The irony of the lawsuits that would follow would just be too delicious.

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

Simmons' choice of guests for his Podcasts are very revealing about his insecurities. For basketball, the sports he follows the most closely and is most confident in his knowledge, his regular guests — Bucher, Steyn, and Zach Lowe — are guys who know what they're talking about and are willing to bust Simmons' balls…

Agree wholeheartedly about DK. Was phenomenal as PG's Pirates beat writer (especially his Q&As), but has gotten pretty shrill and thin-skinned as a columnist.

What, no Primanti's sandwich? This poser might as well be from Cleveland.

Great, even with a contending team and a top-flight prospect it's humiliating to be a Pirates fan.

This might be the one instance in which it's appropriate for the home crowd to boo a pick-off attempt.

When I started collecting baseball cards, it was 50 cents for a pack of 16. Within a few years it was $1.50 for a pack of 12 (and no gum). Obviously I wasn't expert enough on the industry to know whether Upper Deck and their fancy gloss and holograms were actually responsible for that, but as a 12 year old with a…

I like this idea, both on its own merits and for how angry Boston fans would be that Orr didn't make the cut.

Follows up playoff elimination by Ravens by helping friends cover-up a single homicide? The man just cannot top Ray Lewis.

"There's an easy solution for that."

Obviously everything about Bill Murray is delightful, but the thing that struck me most about this article are the things and terms that seem anachronistic after 23 years, old enough to be forgotten but not classic enough to inspire nostalgia. "Cellular telephone." "Geo." "Jerome Walton."