Agreed, but it’s a point of national and diplomatic pride, in addition to providing the incentive for many youth and amateur programs in many sports. If most of our budget goes to a military that seems to only make things worse, I have zero problem with a small percentage going towards international-level sports.

I am in Eventing, a branch of equestrian, and we are getting our pants beat off by the Germans and British for this very reason. Our top riders must spend much of their time training sale horses, giving clinics and lessons, and running a boarder barn just to make ends meet. Other nations’s top riders do nothing but…

I’ve never torn my ACL myself, but have been with two people who have ruptured theirs and one who tore it, and none were in this kind of pain. Others chime in if I am mistaken, but there must be other damage to that knee to cause that much pain.

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My own Dan Snyder story is quite satisfying. My mother is a fantastic local journalist. She has worked to eliminate veteran homelessness in Fairfax County, forced Fairfax Police, one of the most notoriously secretive forces in the nation, to institute a civilian review board and appoint the absolute perfect person for…

Deadspin, why do you insist on showing me every horrific leg injury you can find? I mean I know it comes with a warning, but I’m going to watch it anyway because I do essentially everything Deadspin tells me to do and am incapable of resisting.

Not really. I don’t know anything about UFC fighting but as an angry teeenager whose only bright moments in high school came after beating the snot out of some preppy asshole and having the entire school mercilessly tease him about being beaten by a girl, schoolyard or street fighting is different. After delivering a…

Speaking as a hoe, I can say we are running away from your face.

This is epic Kinja. Fabulous.

I’ve taken up all of Deadspin’s prejudices, the hatred of the Cardinals in particular, and find the comparison of Cardinals fans to child rape apologists offensive. I don’t have to like Cards fans to put them in a whole different category from those defending Penn State. The difference between being annoying and…