"the R-word"

I agree with this statement 5700%

Last night I was driving near Boston at just after 10PM and noticed a ton more air traffic than usual south of the city, and on very odd flight paths. I guess they must have been routing flights around to the South as a result of the crash.

It's a pizza!

Good thing Jared Lorenzen isn't in the NFL anymore. They wouldn't have been able to plot his neutron star-esque density on this chart.

Didn't initially realize that TE's were grouped in with receivers, couldn't believe there were so many over 6'6".

Exactly. This should be a non-story. It's actually astounding to think that Oiselle was dumb enough to think they could do this.

I imagine there must be some pretty gnarly injuries at times.

I don't know if it's that slight sneer or what, but whenever I see that picture of Manny I think he looks like Denzel gone completely over the top throwing himself into some crazy role.

In all seriousness, she would probably be incredible at Brazilian jiu-jitsu.

My mind is pretty obliterated that there are Sox towns in NY and Yankees towns in MA. Granted, all of the offending towns have approximately seven or eight residents.

I believe that being rewarded for hits with a trough of grain is the exact training method that made Prince Fielder into the specimen he is today.

Oh I'm sorry, did Jerry Remy commit a crime? Or is what is being discussed even a crime? Sorry, I forgot that Jerry Remy is never allowed to have an opinion on anything ever again because his adult son is a roided-out psychopath.

"Sure, I'll give it a try" - Shawne Merriman

I seriously don't remember Belichick ever challenging something that couldn't be challenged, and definitely don't remember him being penalized for doing so. Usually in that case the ref just has a discussion with the coach and encourages the coach to pick up the red flag.

Some serious credit is due here for making me laugh a non-guilty laugh in the comments of an article this sad.

I'm interested to read the whole paper when I have time, but I'm wondering if the simplest explanation is that women in more secular states are more likely to participate in sports, not that the sports cause women to become more secular. Also, women who participate in high school sports may be more likely to attend…

Fort Lauderdale Airport isn't exactly the sort of airport which has flights coming and going at all hours... I'm surprised someone didn't notice that a guy had been in the airport for three straight days, especially if he was in the middle of some sort of mental break.

Oddly enough this triggered one of those "I'm getting old" moments for me. Players I watched get drafted when I was in high school are retiring now...

To be fair to baseball, Don and Jerry are far more prone to this stuff than other baseball announcers. By early August they've usually run out of traditional banter and resort to to some truly odd topics to kill time.