Moyes was given 8 months with a far superior team. And van Gaal's squads have a track record of starting slow. His first season at Barca they were 11th 3 months in and won the title. His first year at Bayern they were 9th 3 months in and won the title. Not saying United will win it but they will improve.

It's funny that you say that when you consider last season's premier league champions spent the most the previous summer. Also MANU is a reference to the Munich air disaster. It's pretty disrespectful to the people that died.

United fielded 6 Youth players 5 of which had never before made an appearance for the first team. Embarrassing. But perhaps not as embarrassing as you are making it out to be. In effect this would be like an NFL team to a CFL team playing with 15 starters from the practice squad.

As a current division 1 athlete your post angers me on so many levels because it is so true. Last week I had to pay a 62 dollar competition entry fee for a summer event that I had to pull out of due to injury. I can't hold a job but if i hurt myself training and can't go to an event no one can help me pay because it…

I feel like the people who started crossfit never thought it would be this big at first. And now they are making so much money they want it to appeal to everyone. Anyone who knows anything about free weight lifting knows that overhead lifts, and any kind of free weights when your very fatigued are dangerous as fuck.…

It was soft but it was an intentional foul which is always a yellow. The same as a "playoff hard foul" in basketball to prevent a lay up. The player knew he was beaten and pulled him back knowing full well Robben would go down easily. This is not uncommon in professional football.

I don't get the point of the underdog shit in football. I'm not a frontrunner. But i like to watch teams that actually attempt to win the game. Costa Rica was playing for penalties from the opening whistle. Mexico going out was there own fault. They were on top and decided to withdraw all their attacking players and…

They already review incidents after the match. Sometimes it results in a retrospective ban. What i mean is that penalty decisions in particular have can have a massive impact on the result of a match. And it would not be hard for the game to remain continuous while reviewing penalty decisions because it already stops…

For me there is one more aspect of replay that needs to be examined with soccer. When a penalty decision is made it should be immediately reviewed upstairs. I don't see this to be a big issue because the match already stops for a period of time with a penalty. Plenty of time for a panel to decide whether or not there…

Its pretty blasphemous to say Hazard is the next Ronaldo. He is absolutely not an elite goalscorer as of yet. Ronaldo scored 32 premier league goals at age 23. Hazard scored 14 league goals. Give me a break. I'm a Gareth Bale hater but objectively he is the only young player with the size, strength, athleticism, and…

Its unbelievable really. And no mention that Januzaj is one of the top teenage talents in the world either. But they did mention Benteke....who won't even be in Brazil because of a torn achilles.

I would actually really like to see Love, Dragic, and Bledsoe on the same team.

Simeone when he was a player for Lazio....

Instead of race (which is most definitely a factor) why don't we look at another aspect. If anyone one of us regular Joe's beat the shit out of a bartender what do you think would happen to us?

I watched Reggie Jackson in high school in Colorado. He scored like 40 points on my high school team. But one thing hasn't changed...that dude gets his iso when he wants it.

I don't think van Gaal would be a bad choice. He righted the ship at Bayern after the disastrous Klinsmann tenure and it could be argued that he built the current Bayern squad. He brought Ribery/Robben to the club and also debuted players like Kroos and Muller. He's not a long term option but could get them moving…

I mean making the assumption someone is going to die is really meaningless. No one has Pride started in 1997. So in 17 years no one has died. I mean pride even had that open weight grand prix...you had 400 pound guys fighting 150 pound guys....AAANNND...no one died.

Everyone knows the risk going in, short and long term. I seriously doubt anyone will die in the MMA of today though. No one died in Pride Fighting and it was significantly more dangerous and the rules were much more lax. Pride allowed head stomps, soccer kicks, shots to the spine, anything....still no deaths. All of…

Looks like our old friend said all athletes better make damn sure they look happy with their fixed scores...

Sports these days are more about Tom Rinaldi esque human interest pieces than the actual competition. I don't want to downplay people's emotional trauma but these days it seems like if someone's cousin's brother-in-law dies who the athlete shared a cocktail with once its worthy of a human interest piece.