At some small schools recruiting for intercollegiate sports is an important way to create a diverse student body. Diverse in terms of social backgrounds, areas of interest, and other things in addition to race. So they are a benefit to the school even though they cost a lot of money to run.

Ha, fuck you too. Stop reading Bill O’Reilly authored history books and other right wing propaganda and the war you imagine might begin to resemble the war that happened. The practically undefended landings in Italy were never intended to lead to Germany. The Alps are in the way. It was a separate campaign, intended…

WWII veterans mostly killed Japanese people in a race war. And after wasting time in North Africa and Italy we didn’t get around to landing in Europe and making our way towards Germany until years after that war had been fought and won by the Soviet Union. Americanism and Nazism have a lot in common.

I think steroids and hgh do help bones and tendons and ligaments and muscles heal faster from the strain of workouts and sports activities. All of these tissues go through a similar cycle of stress, breakdown, and regrowth into a stronger form.

That isn’t well known. In fact, the opposite is. Trying to imitate the workouts of enhanced athletes while not taking drugs will cripple you in a hurry. But taking hgh and testosterone helps you recover from joint injuries, it doesn’t cause them. A lot of professional athletes get their first introduction to PED’s…

But steroids really don’t break down the body. They enhance the ability to heal. Maybe he did some fucked up workouts that injured him, maybe his golf swing was too violent, but his steroid use probably kept him in his sport a lot longer than if he had neglected to use them.

Oh, you still can carry food through security. I bring lots every time I fly. Just not anything to drink.

Germany is and was “the West”. The only thing that stopped them was Russian Bolshevism.

He got on an Ohio State lineman/Alabama running back quantity of steroids. Good for him.

To be clear, Michael Phelps would lose by a score of one million to zero in a game of basketball to Usain Bolt, you, me, or to a coordinated and aggressive toddler. That man is good at one thing in this world.

To steal a joke from Australian media, NBA coaches seem like good guys to have a beer with. NFL coaches seem like good guys to invade Poland with.

Coaches in the NBA just roll the ball out on the court for the guys to practice. Tell them to go get it at game time. It’s fun. Whereas the NFL game seems to reward the bizarre and unsettling behavior of guys like Belichik and Parcells. The NFL sucks.

Are you somehow under the impression that James Harrison does not take PEDs? And that passing the NFL’s drug tests is evidence of this? These are ludicrous things to believe. I assure you, he, and most NFL players take a cornucopia of anabolics and stimulants to train and perform the way they do.

Michael Phelps? I wish it was more permissible for athletes and trainers to talk about the pharmacological aspects of their training and performance. It’s a big part of it and I don’t think it makes their careers either fake or real.

Do you think that Harrison is unusual among his peers in his heavy PED use? He isn’t. Professional football players take a lot of different drugs to prepare and perform at the highest possible level.

I think it depends on your starting point. If you’ve been lifting for twenty years and your bench press is 405, adding 15 lbs to that in three months would be extremely difficult to achieve.

Hockey “fights” take place while standing on a sheet of ice. You’ve noticed that right? That’s why these lame fights are allowed. That’s why the punches don’t hurt anybody. That’s why their tiny hands don’t break when they slap the other guys skull ten or fifteen times with their tiny little fists. Basketball…

Smoke. I read it a long time ago. I loved it and still think about it.

I think Turgenev was better than both. Turgenev certainly thought so too.

I hate Donald Trump as much as any other decent human being. But if he continues to ignore the psychopathic warmongers that inhabit the CIA and the defense intelligence community in general, I’ll campaign door to door in swing states for him in four years.