Eli is mediocre, but the point is that he’s always been exactly this mediocre. The “he sucks now” narrative is just an attempt to blame him for the Giants’ dismal record the past couple of years. If anything about the team has changed for the worst - and something most certainly has - it is definitely not Eli Manning.…

... for about three weeks.

The good news is that Chelea wouldn’t pay that much for a midfielder they weren’t planning on starting. The bad news is that the Premiereship is deeply unforgiving and if he doesn’t perform as well as they expect him to he’ll be benched and possibly sold off for someone who does, quickly and without consideration for…

Emelianenko’s fans insisted for years that he was still technically undefeated even though he had a loss on his record, so I don’t see why UFC, a marketing firm that happens to organize fights, couldn’t do the same.

UFC can’t overturn the decision, but they can also decide it was unacceptable or some bullshit and ignore the result. That said, only reason to do so is to have a rematch (that wouldn’t a rematch because the first one didn’t count), which is dependent upon Zingano being able to fight again.

1. Most “regular” ham in the US is awful, but if you know where to find actually good ham (i.e. you are or know black people or native spanish speakers) it’s amazing. I know several people who are vegetarians except for Italian and Spanish hams.

2. Euro-vacation as bachelor party is fine if and only if: you’re paying,…

Yeah, we remember McGregor’s fight. Do you? Mayweather won by TKO after wearing out McGregor for 9 rounds, barely throwing a punch at all in first two. Mayweather isn’t a power punching guy, and a full-throttle assault from the beginning just isn’t his style: his last first-round victory is now old enough to drink…

Who seriously is going to run against him? Democrats have a bunch of spineless anonymous shitheads and people with even less political experience than Barack Obama had in 2008, and they think one of those people can do better against a candidate who had the most impressive political resume in decades, a massive…

If Gizmodo Media Group is anything like its predecessor, rather than retract they’ll double down on how essential these sample letters are.

The reason for this is simple. Thirty, forty years ago, before the NFL was the juggernaut it is today and baseball was still undisputedly the nation’s most popular sport, football was an important cultural signifier because being a football fan - especially a pro football fan - was the difference between being a…

The old system was stupid and arbitrary, but nothing about anything that’s replaced it has felt less stupid or less arbitrary. Part of the charm of college football was that half the teams got to end their season on a high note with a victory, and rivalry wins mattered more than the mythical national championship.

It’s probably more like, Puma says, “Our contract specifies that we get at least $X million in apparel sales, less team and player royalties, per year, or else the team has to make up the difference out of its own pocket. Our kit designs have to be radically different to motivate sales to fans that already have 7 of…

Whoever hired those goons should be canned, too. I’m a little sympathetic for that bottom-rung employee who called the cops got fired - they should have known better, but they were also between a rock and a hard place when being ordered to call the police - but the managers that either didn’t adequately screen their…

Because every time Democrats reign in out-of-control Republican spending, the GOP tells voters their taxes are too high and trigger another massive debt spike anyway.

The Rays make tons of money because lots of people watch baseball on TV, and the Rays get a cut of that even though no one cares about them.

They should be spending more time teasing Simmons about his inability to make more than 40 percent of his unguarded three-pointers in warm-ups.

Funnier than any joke in this movie.

FYI, the deerstalker and calabash pipe appeared in the Sidney Paget illustrations accompanying Sherlock Holmes serials in The Strand Magazine, starting with “The Boscombe Valley Mystery.”

My childhood dream was to open an artisan unleavened bread shop but Big Matzo pushed me out of the market, damn them!

Haha, jokes about people’s growth being stunted due to malnutrition due to ethnic conflict and civil war!