Do you think the NFL should have suspended Roethlisberger? It seems like the NHL was somewhat boxed in by that precedent. If there was a case where Kane looked like he was probably guilty but the criminal case fell apart (for whatever reason), people would be outraged (rightfully so) if the NHL abdicated…

Yes, if you are not a politician yourself, how dare you request that politicians be honest and represent your interests. What do you think this is, some kind of representative democracy? Stand aside and let the Very Serious People do their jobs.

Everyone needs to get off their high horses. These are just normal college kids, and this kind of stuff happens at every program [coached by a Pitino].

“but you can’t whine about players being corporate automatons while on the other hand kill them for acting human and flawed when they fail.”

The change should only affect non-shooting fouls. Then there will always be a downside to being a poor free throw shooter.

How many times in your life have you been called an ape or a monkey? Cause I’m guessing it’s fewer times than Demarcus Cousins. That’s what “sensitivity” has to do with anything.

Up until this past year, I believed horse racing was rigged so that you would frequently have horses win the first two legs of the Triple Crown but never the third, since the only time anyone cares about horse racing is when someone might win the Triple Crown, but people would care far less once the drought ended. I’m…

Stating “Carson Palmer lost the game” implies explicitly states that Carson Palmer did not win the game.

Are you suggesting Carson Palmer won the damn game?

Counterpoint: Carson Palmer lost the damn game.

Totally agree on fan free agency. I’m from Pittsburgh but have moved around a bit since high school, and have made several attempts throughout my life to say, “this is my NBA team!” and it never takes. I have preferences for certain teams and cities and players and coaches, but can never get myself really invested in…

The most charitable version of Chait’s argument is that college sports would benefit from less professionalization instead of more. And in the abstract that’s a defensible argument — one could imagine a world where future pros went from high school to the minors and colleges had teams that were more like club teams…

I think the victimhood would come from the St. Louis stadium authority (I forget the exact name or acronym) breaking its contractual commitment to maintain the stadium as a “state of the art” facility as defined in the contract. (If it needs to be stated, I’m not endorsing that reasoning in the least, but that is the…

Is there any coherent strategy that gets you to both of those finalists besides “we want to hire a big name”? Would be weird to hire either a year after firing an unarguably great coach because he was too much of a control freak — an overcorrection to an overcorrection.

The real bad news for Purdue fans is that nobody cares enough about them to get this joke.

Hanks has a conflict of interest in making these rulings, since a violent enough shot to his head could literally take it off.

It’s so crazy that he tried to get to Brown as Brown was being taken off the field. Even assuming he was trying to express concern or good will, given his history in general, his history with the Steelers, and how high tensions were all game, why on earth would he think anyone would give him the benefit of the doubt…

The whole “we want to own New Year’s Eve like the NBA owns Christmas”rationale is so dumb. The obvious distinction is that the Christmas games (and NFL Thanksgiving games) are regular season games. The NFL and the NBA use events (Thanksgiving and Christmas) to elevate non-events (regular season games). College…

I’ve noticed a strong similarity between gambling advice and new parenting advice. Everyone has some random game or slot machine that they swear is easy money because they beat the odds that one time, just like everyone swears they have some surefire trick for getting a baby to stop crying and sleep through the night…

The local will have a stronger interest in the particular company they work for, and it would be easier to get the company to agree to a policy that’s company-specific.