Yeah, I take as much pleasure in the Lakers misery as anyone but this doesn’t require a lot of analysis. They are 21-14 with Lebron...which is about as well as you could have reasonably expected them to do before the season. 6-12 without Lebron (and without Kuzma for a few and Lonzo for several of those games)

Right. Because a coach in his second year at his dream job with one disappointing season has no motivation to keep his experienced starting QB.

Even if Nadal passes Federer, I still don’t think you can consider him the best because it is so skewed by his clay court dominance--which is such a niche surface and IMO, should be phased out.

I get what you’re saying. There’s a legit “slippery slope” argument to be made here. However, I would say that NFL has long gone down some bad slippery slopes in regards to replay (i.e., slow-motion replays to determine catch/no catch; clear recovery rule). What is the purpose of replay? To me, it is, first and…

The ruling on the review was basically that the call on the field could not be overturned (i.e., play was not reviewable). I suspect that the NFL will say that the mistake here was that the replay assistant should have known that there was no recovery; thus, it never should have been reviewed as the call could not be…

Obviously, the solution is that referees need to stop blowing plays dead unless they are 100% sure. (Though on this one, I can’t blame them TOO much). However, once they do, I completely agree with the rulebook here. If a play is blown dead on an incomplete pass before a recovery, there should be no overturning that…

Agreed. It is not nearly as clear as that picture shows, as he was on his side with his back to the pylon cam when he was touched (see the frame that CBS froze on in the video). If I were to guess, the officials would say that in the angle that they had (presumably, the same frame that CBS showed), you could not see…

Foles and his receivers made some ridiculous plays last night that you really can’t put on the defense. 

I think you hit on something really important here. I get sick of hearing, “Well, they suck...so just get the young guys experience.” That only works if a guy is actually showing some development from that playing time. If they are going out there and are lost and overwhelmed over and over again, it isn’t going to be…

Of all the things to complain about with the Knicks.....Frank Ntilikina not seeing more minutes?? I see physical tools in him but little else. He can’t shoot. He’s not a particularly good distributor. The NBA in 2018 isn’t a place for a defense-first point guard with limited offensive potential. He should be in the…

Of all the things to complain about with the Knicks.....Frank Ntilikina not seeing more minutes?? I see physical tools in him but little else. He can’t shoot. He’s not a particularly good distributor. The NBA in 2018 isn’t a place for a defense-first point guard with limited offensive potential. He should be in the…

Yeah, I agree. I generally give these guys the benefit of the doubt until they are 25 or 26 and are more mature. But it is a bad look. I don’t think there’s any excuse for calling your coach out to the media but I would at least be a little more understanding if this were March. You’re 12 games into things with…

Yeah....that’s the thing.  This SHOULD be ironic.  But it is not ironic, at all.  It is completely logical. 

I read that sentence like three times to make sure I wasn’t missing the part that was relevant or would cause the mildest level of disdain. Nope....wasn’t there.

4-4 in the SEC is hardly falling off a cliff. It is something that happens to every SEC coach not named Nick Saban every few years. Florida did not lose one game to a team that finished outside of the Top 25 and four of those were to Top 16 teams. SEC fans (especially fans of 90's powers Florida and Tennessee) are…

“Fall off a cliff” is hyperbolic. The program couldn’t have fallen that far if Will fucking Muschamp can lead it to an 11-2 record two years later. Florida was a far cry from a national championship but Meyer left it as an unquestionably above-average SEC team. Florida is just now pulling itself out of a mess because…

In no world is this NOT a foul...

It also looked like Clay had time to take another step forward while the ball was in the air so that he wouldn’t have had to lunge forward as much. Either he read it poorly or he was lazy as fuck.

Yeah, as much of a punchline as Josh Allen is, that was a fucking phenomenal play that would have had Deadspin commenters jizzing all over themselves if the jersey said Mahomes on the back. Instead, we get a writer describing it as “weasling” and “chucking” with no credit whatsoever and commenters looking at it and…

Not sure I’m following you here. Athletes are, what, like 2-3% of the student population. Why would lower tuition and get less money from 100% of the students for the 2-3% of student athletes that they would have to pay? They would probably raise tuition. With loans and the fact that so many students are willing to go…