You cannot lose to Antonio Tarver twice (RJJ) and be in any discussion for the greatest ever.

He is clearly worth more than $15 million based on his talent level and what professional basketball players get paid.

Well, because in an open he’d be making somewhere between 2-5x that much. The question you should be asking yourself is why the owner deserves to pocket that money instead of Nene.

Abolish the salary cap. It only benefits the owners. The players get screwed and it guarantees the fans are treated to mediocre basketball unless their franchise lucks into 1-2 superstar picks (mostly through losing).

The caption on the YouTube video for the soda/candy is amazing:

What criteria are you using? Is it the number of CONCACAF and CAF teams in the FIFA Top 25? Is it the number of teams which made it to the knockout in 2014 World Cup? Is it the number of teams which made it to the knockout in the 2010 World Cup? Because all of those tilt toward CONCACAF.

CONCACAF is not a joke. It is solidly the third best confederation, with a big distance between it and 1 & 2 and a bigger distance between it and 4, 5 & 6.

Not sure I agree. Yes, the franchise model contributes, but the major difference is the density of professional clubs.

The World Cup/FIFA works like this, except worse. Instead of ripping off cities like Oakland or Los Angeles or St. Louis for public money they don’t have, they are more likely to rip off governments such as Brazil, South Africa or Russia for money those countries really don’t have.

Style correction, I believe you mean LARRY SANDERS!

I wish they’d just abolish the draft. It removes any incentive for teams to be managed effectively because management is so focused on getting into the lottery, as if that alone will somehow change their long-term fortunes (I’m looking at you Philadelphia).

My favorite stat/fact is that not only was he traded for George Hill, but that the Pacers felt compelled to throw in the rights to two Euro players to seal the deal.

This trade makes it pretty clear that Boogie had no intentions of re-signing with the Kings, which makes this an OK trade. If your evidence is that Boogie told the press that he wanted to be in Sacramento or that his camp said he was game to stay, well, of course that’s what they said. That’s what almost every athlete…

I cannot be held responsible for whatever Kinja nonsense surfaces such a story to the left-rail carousel. ;)

Maybe the dumbest comment of the day. You do realise that nationality and race aren’t the same thing, right? And even without looking at Gisele— just look at her surname— her ancestry is pretty clearly German. There are tons of white people, Asian people, African diaspora people et al in Brazil.

What you also need to consider here is that all three field goals were over 50-yards. That’s the combination of kickers becoming far better than the design of the game ever anticipated (and kicking on turf, inside). It wasn’t exactly like GB marched down the field on that last drive with a series of 12-yard crossing…

How did they break the rules in the very legal formations they ran against the Ravens? Which is what the Ravens whined about incessantly. This “hugging” play is far less in the spirit of the rules than what the Pats did.

Explain how Hillsborough happens without SRO terraces. Really, I’d love to hear it. While the police and stadium management are culpable and their posthoc shaming of supporters deplorable, there’s zero way that crush happens without SRO.

Ah, the “Asian big boys” who aren’t better than Mexico, the US or Costa Rica? Who all finished dead last in their groups in 2014? Also, that move had more to do with improving their odds to qualify for the WC because of more guaranteed bids.

Your editorializing is interesting. So the US weren’t in the Group of Death, despite being with eventual World Cup champ Germany, European champion Portugal and African runner-up Ghana? England and Italy are objectively worse than all three of those teams.