+1 excessive use of force

+1 excessive use of force

+1 excessive use of force

Amen. Filed from Luxembourg

Amen, brother. (Filed from Luxembourg)

Wait, did I click on Engadget? I wanted to go to Deadspin...

Jewsiers

The height of irony would be if the Florida State AD was the one who raised the academic standards issue. You know it was the Duke guy though.

Not even RedFoo will look at that body.

Hamilton Academical sounds like someone merged the Vo-Tech high school with the regular one.

While A&M is no match for Vandy in academics, you're doing them an injustice by not linking to the correct school in your comparison. Vandy is ranked 53 while A&M is 125 (not 666 as indicated in your link).

O'Brien went on to say, "the ribbons will be navy blue in color to keep our support for child abuse hidden, as it always has been."

Actually, we're just talking about the Chinese. The Koreans were doing it because the Chinese started tanking and the Indonesians followed suit. If the Chinese had played hard out of the gate, I doubt the 2nd Korean team or the Indonesians would have been pulled in.

56 athletes and they are making a rush of wind in the London Olympics.

Remember, we're talking about the Chinese here. Communism, collective good and all. If the team had played hard they probably would have had to deal with a lot of shit from Chinese team management that they didn't maximize the number of medals the Chinese teams would earn.

The swimming comparison is not valid. In each heat there is an elimination. If Phelps doesn't swim fast enough, he doesn't make it to the next heat. There's an added incentive that the fastest time gets the center lane, so while swimmers might take it easy, they still swim fast to ensure they're not on the outer…

You get a +1 for reading websites other than Deadspin.

Same thing happened in ice hockey in 2010. The Fins totally tanked the final qualification game against Sweden knowing that they would end up 4th and in the US' section of the bracket instead of Canada's. Of course, the US came out and crushed them 6-1, but it seems the Fins are better at faking it than the…

You've clearly missed the Tennessee Fried Chicken shops that dot London.