Big TV game for Newcastle means DeAndre Yedlin will either nutmeg Luke Shaw 20 times or score an own goal.

I don’t think we disagree that much, but just quibbling over the terminology.

But threat of death or violence are not essential parts of slavery. For example, debt slavery in ancient Rome was a voluntary contractual agreement and the slaves were exempt for corporal punishment.

“Your daughter is fantastic ballerina. How about we pay you $50,000 to take her to Russia. We give her apartment, food and world-class training. Do we have deal?”

Not to get too far into the weeds, but I’m wondering about all these payments and how they avoid leaving a paper trail.

Is there though?

$1,000 not spent on brain damage and toxic masculinity!

The presumption of innocence thing is weird because there’s a legal document where Ronaldo himself claims the accuser said ‘no’ but he did it and it’s okay because she didn’t complain afterwards.

It’s the Devin Hester fake out! Cross-sports reference!

Is Jack Grealish any good?

*meh*

You could say that was a pretty savoy maneuver. 

The dynamic isn’t all that different though - the power rests almost entirely on one side. Given the hoops a rape accuser has to jump through in a criminal justice system that’s simply not able or willing to properly handle sex crimes, money for restitution vs pressing charges doesn’t even feel like a choice. At least…

But then, it’s not like LeBron James and Maverick Carter have a monopoly on all things at the intersection of sports and race. It seems like she’s just involved in two media products that happen to touch the same topic. I mean, it’s not a problem that Ta-Nehisi Coates, like Hill, writes for the Atlantic while also…

That’s a shitload of words just to talk about Kroos’s awful backpass.

I mean, alcohol is supposed to be a depressant. If alcohol doesn’t mellow you out, you’re doing it wrong (though now that I think about it, heavy drinking makes me climb walls and trees).

I got drunk a lot in my college years and my late 20s. Like, black out drunk, pass out drunk, puking drunk, 4-straight-nights drunk, friends-put-you-in-a-cab-at-10 pm drunk, wake-up-at-a-strange-location drunk, almost the whole spectrum of drunkenness.

TBF every soccer player cheats on taxes in Spain

I’m not a fancy, BMW-drivin’ law-talkin’ guy but I don’t think people should be allowed to pay accusers of felonies to not press charges or speak to anyone about it. Wouldn’t that be witness tampering if this was, say, murder?

Don’t be this guy.