That would mean ESPN taking time away from endless debates about things like Andrew Luck’s “eliteness” or LeBron not being a winner to discuss an actual news story, especially if it’s about baseball

I’d almost argue the opposite- if Rose bet on a game, he would actually be involved in the action. He could maybe not run out a hit. Or intentionally strike out or make an error. Manager’s don’t have as much say in the play of the game- Rose could bring in a bad pitcher, for example, in hopes he gets shelled and the…

Yeah, my brother did it, flirted with the really wrong political groups and while he’s wised up, he’s been Modern Orthodox for years. It’s a huge pain in the ass for everyone else to deal with.

I too did one as a kid and came away totally swallowing the myth of Israel. I went as an adult (on a singles trip even) and I kept on hearing all this stuff being said about the country and there was a whole bunch of times I kept on thinking “oh, hey, wait a minute, that doesn’t sound right.....” I actually came back…

I want to hate Neymar but damnit, I can’t. He’s ridiculously talented, still a work in progress, and looks like he’s having fun. Ronaldo plays like he wants to stamp his ego on everything, Messi is inhuman, Zlatan’s just kind of nutty, but Neymar just looks happy when he’s playing.

It would depending if he started to say he was Jewish just to make Jewish jokes.

I’m guessing he was in a rush to get to Albequerque

You forgot the guy who always has to come on and say soccer’s boring. It’s one of the rules of the internet- somebody has to remind everyone that soccer is boring whenever there’s a post about it.

It’s a good way to gage the team, especially after the progress last year and right before the CONCACAF tourney in July, and see that not only did they beat the Dutch and Germany, but for the most part, they looked good in doing so (well, against Germany, mainly). It was a friendly but the US played like they deserved…

I think it’s great to see that our German born players can beat their German born players

Please find evidence of Russia and Qatar bribing FIFA officials, please find evidence of Russia and Qatar bribing FIFA officials...

One of the main things that caused this was the decision to play the WC in Qatar was so absurd and thus so blatantly a result of bribing that even a lot of people who looked the other way were pretty much “oh, come on” about it. If the US had gotten the 2022 WC (and in some ways England in 2018), I don’t know how much…

What the hell did Harbaugh do to his players?

Or they could be retiring because Harbaugh worked them so hard in practice and games that a bunch of too players got too banged up to want to play anymore

I think I’m more surprised an NFL team spent the money to print out a form letter than the fact they’re so cold-hearted about it

Or...”showed unnecessary concern over concussions”

et tu France?

If he is still running FIFA, it’ll be from some super cushy Swiss jail after being imprisoned for several thousand charges of general corruptedness. Of course, he could still be running FIFA from there, something I wouldn’t put it past him

UEFA’s hemming and hawing over all of this has been disappointing and frustrating. My guess is that they’re all celebrating what the US did in part because it saved them the bother of having to do anything

that’ll show FIFA for awarding the 2018 and 2022 World Cups to other countries than the US because the other countries bribed them