Seattle’s spine grew a little when they turned down Clay Bennett and the Supersonics for a new arena, but it warps a little every time someone talks about getting another NBA team....

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Fun fact: It’s also the name of someone’s wi-fi feed near the Gaslamp Quarter Starbucks.

Not directly as it’s TicketMaster’s algorithm, but it does allow owners to keep ticket revenue that otherwise would have went to a secondary market.

“In most cases those pre season games sell tix for the same rate, get similar turnouts.”

Given that NFL teams use “dynamic pricing”, i.e. price to demand rather than a set value, the overall ticket sales for pre-season games is going to be signifactly less. A 300 Level seat for a Seahawks pre-season game is not going…

The funniest part about this process of bringing SC STL (which, judging by some other MLS teams names, probably stands for “Sportif Cloob Sahn-Lwee”)

Not necessarily:

It’s also how Toronto got the Blue Jays, because MLB wanted to save face and claim they were adding two teams all along...

Will need to see player contracts and/or collective agreement before passing judgement, but players may also STFU and ignore the dress code.

I’m becoming less of an advocate of instant replay in sports in general as time goes by. The NFL had it right at first with limited instant replay review- the referee looks at it and if he can’t see anything to overturn the call within a minute or so, the call stands. Then other major leagues got into it, then we…

The CFL: We’ve always been here/Le LCF: Nous avons toujours `et`e ici.

“trying to even create the allusion of parody/fairness”

I’m actually a Socialist* (member of the New Democratic Party in Canada, which is affiliated with the Socialist International), but I’m here for you.

*More like a Bernie Socialist than a Fidel one.

“But an evangelical, they want to see the end of days.”

I’m an Athiest, and upon taking a good look at the state of the world, I also want to see the end of days.

Does that make me evangelical or just suicidal?

So who’s going to be Malcom Butler when the Electoral College votes on December 19?

After the Toronto Argonauts were kicked out of the Rogers Centre by the Blue Jays, the CFL isn’t even first class at BMO Field:

Football, Baseball, and Basketball have jerseys.

Labatt Breweries, the original owners of the Toronto Blue Jays, chose the name because they expected fans to casually abbreviate it an invoke the brand name of their most popular product at the time:

You can be pissed, but it’s the colours the Canucks had when they joined the NHL in 1970, plus they’re Vancouver’s civic colours:

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