Tyler Eifert, one of those weapons, is in the concussion protocol, so that doesn’t help.

That’s all well and good, but what does Dee Mirich think?

I think you could get an argument that Shaq isn’t even the greatest big man on the list above. Not only is Kareem arguably better, but it was he who was responsible for the institution of the “no dunking” rule that the NCAA had from 1967 till 1976, and it that ain’t impacting one’s sport, I don’t know what is.

His new “Hero/Villain” campaign? So he’s gonna sit in the rafters at Staples Center for a few years, looking all forlorn, doing the Sting thing?

“Just a few minutes after Joe Flacco tore his ACL, the quarterback opposite him suffered a nasty injury of his own.”

That may be true, but Pepe is also a meme, something I learned not long ago from SomeDaughterInVA, one of whose friends had been guilty of pronouncing the name as “Peep”, because “Meem”.

Don’t I get some credit, too?

I’m guessing Costco - http://www.costco.com/.product.11150…

College spread offenses are predicated on the idea that the offense has X skill players that are fast and small, while the defense has Y defenders that are fast and big enough to cause serious harm to the small skill players, and X is always greater than Y, mostly because there are well over 120 schools playing D1…

I think it’s called “The Uncle Rico”

I’ve seen it more as a rehash of the old Hollywood trope of the son who doesn’t want to follow in his dad’s footsteps, even though he’s been seemingly pre-ordained to do so.

Oh, Jim, I apologize; I forgot you were there. You may go now.

“That being said, no sane adult with a peanut allergy would set foot in a place like that, so as the writer noted, I am sure she was just full of shit.”

Your general point stands, but at 30 feet, he’s half the distance from where a pitcher starts his motion (60 feet, 6 inches) not one third. The pitch is usually released about 56 feet or so from home plate.

Oh, I read those articles last week; the VA I’m in is suburban DC.

“The roster construction was pitiful and short sighted.”

Thing is, though, Clausen’s last season at ND was actually pretty freakin’ good as far as numbers go. 3,700 yards, 28 TDs, 4 INTs; wasn’t his fault that they lost three games that year where they scored 30 or more points, and another where they scored 27.

Actually it’s only $11 million. The Nats guaranteed his option for next year to make the trade happen, but got him to drop the price from $13 million to $11 million.

So what? Tom Dempsey enjoyed a perfectly fine career in the NFL while playing under similar circumstances. He even managed to set a record that stood for many years.

I think the word you’re looking for is ‘apoplectic’. That is the best way to describe Ray Knight last night.