It’s all Extremely Luxurious

McNabb wanted to take a cab, but was thrown out when the taxi driver told him “I hate the fucking Eagles, man.”

What isn’t?

Yeah, but unlike Russell Wilson, I can masturbate. So there.

At some point in those opening 16 minutes, the feeling stopped being “Hey, the U.S. has this!” and started being “holy shit we’re watching something historic here.” And of course, the pace slowed down as it always does, and we didn’t win by 20. But the U.S. women provided a few minutes of feeling that are more…

Generally, people try hiding plants in themselves when approached by police.

This article by Grantland’s Noah Davis is a good overview. It was all just a bit too much, too soon.

At some point, when does he admit that his career is Finnished?

Yes, the flood of hockey coverage has been keeping soccer down all these years. Just an insatiable appetite for hockey that overshadows soccer.

When asked for a comment, Pelicans owner Tom Benson said “I think...uh, what’s his name again? What day is today? Who are you?”

Just the month and a half of the NWSL season prior to this World Cup.

Finishing second, which is what the original poster talked about, nets you $1.3 million, which is $550k more than losing in the quarterfinals.

Their group stage loss to Colombia didn’t prevent them from winning their group, and ultimately had no effect on their knockout-stage opponents.

Per federation, with some percentage reserved for the players. In a sport that struggles in many countries to receive proper funding, that prize money could have had big effects on women’s soccer in France.

When a tournament’s governing body expressly admits to rigging the structure in order to, at best, lure in a few more attendees and their wallets to the stadiums or, at worst, give preferred teams easier routes to victory, this is a thing nobody interested in the competition itself should let slide idly by.

There is a $550,000 difference between losing in the finals and quarter finals.

The website can’t seem to compute the Mets’ relative success:

Yes, we read the article too.

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That’s Brian Dunseth, and on Twitter there is a drinking game with some of his more common phrases that he plays along with. “It is so ordered” was a “finish your drink” phrase for last night, along with Jiggery-Pokery and marriage, both of which he slipped in.