You forgot that New England has a 17-point higher point differential than GB despite playing 5 games to GB’s 6. You can argue that someone else might win the Super Bowl, but you cannot argue that at this moment in time they are the best team in the league.

You mean the defending champions who are currently undefeated, have a higher point differential than all but one team (they are 8 behind AZ, but have played one fewer games) and are led by the best QB and coach of their respective eras?

I doubt very highly that 85% of the water is going to desert farmers. 85% to agriculture? Totally believable. However, the Central Valley where most of the growing occurs is not a desert, and even if you’re going to argue that the Southern half of that valley is reasonably arid, the amount of productivity coming from…

Why exactly? Are grown men being paid millions of dollars to pitch in the Major Leagues too delicate to handle the expression of emotion at hitting a HR?

Giovinco is the near-term future of MLS. There are so many high quality players out there who are on the bench at top flight clubs, or who are highly skilled Americas (note mostly CA and SA) players who cannot get EU work permits, who would love the playing time / $$ / locations available in MLS.

It’s amazing how much fun baseball can be when there’s emotion involved.

I stand corrected on the Olympics. The point remains that the performance under Jurgen has been stronger than one would expect from the players on the field, and that to fire him over a loss in a meaningless competition is nonsense.

“Tournaments” plural? Are you speaking about the Gold Cup, the world’s most meaningless tournament?

I wish there were an app for tracking down the Jurgen haters during the preseason of their favorite sport, when they lose by 20 to a crap team and demanding that the coach be fired.

True, but think about how much depth even England have.

The fans are the problem. Mainstream American fans have no experience not being the best at the international level. They have almost no experience with embarrassment at the international competitive level and their views about coaches are often informed by professional or college sports where a new coach can simply…

Perhaps they were distracted by the Anish Kapoor sculpture out front.

Not to mention that salary is about what you can negotiate for. While the other personalities are negotiating against what another media organization could / would pay them, Gruden is one of the few ESPN’ers who could legitimately go out and get an NFL or highly regarded college head coaching job.

Many things could happen. However, no team that’s started the way Chelsea has have ever finished above sixth.

It’s amazing how quickly his body has deteriorated. He’s the same age as Stevie G, younger than Pirlo, and only a couple months older than John Terry and Zlahtan.

The number of Branch Davidians out there is relatively small. And you know what— call me callous— if anyone is going to die, I’d rather it’s those wackadoos than innocent kids in schools.

The idea that confiscating guns will lead to some armed insurrection is nonsense. Your average Bubba is not shooting at local or federal agents.

Almost by definition anyone who kills someone (not out of self-defense) is mentally ill. There’s no reason this guy should have such easy access to guns and we shouldn’t live in a country where we have more guns than people. There is a mental health component to this, sure, but there is no solution to the US’s gun…

This is very much to the point. All “gun control” as currently described is bullshit. There are 300 million guns in this country already. Adding a layer of background checks will do nothing at all. Confiscating and destroying tens or hundreds of millions of guns on the other hand may be very successful. It’s what we…