Being tied for first in the NL East is like being top of the class in Remedial English.

The only good thing about Coachella is that the entire rest of the world is free of Coachella people for two weekends.

Yes.

As the Beastie Boys put it, “Deliver [Instagram] Colonel Sanders down to Davy Jones’ locker.”

It was a clean block, but Allen’s a good faker.

$2.5 million in DC will buy you one house a year.

You’ve gotta make an example of somebody, and preferably somebody small that doesn’t have a big alumni fanbase so you can keep making money on your revenue events.

Shoe companies pumping money into the NCAA are part of the college sports grift, so they’re exempt. That’s also why Adidas the sponsor never got sanctioned by the NCAA for the bribery scandal that saw two of its executives and a consultant convicted in federal court for wire fraud.

Is Nikki Giovanni eligible or does she have to compete in the women’s division?

That’s better than their Plan B, which was to score fewer points but convince the NBA the Sixers bribed the refs and then win the series by forfeit.

I still think this is all part of a long plan, a Process if you will, to blow the team up completely so they can make a splash in their debut season in Las Vegas. Gruden’s $100 million guaranteed contract is basically blood money for doing such a bad job he’ll never work in the league again.

You’re mostly right, but the big problem is that you’re applying a trend from oveseas sports fandom to domestic fans, which I don’t think is valid. Fans of Barcelona or Real Madrid may have actually spent time in those cities on exchange or as tourists, but I doubt very many American Man U fans have actually been to…

Nah. The plan is for the soccer execs to ride the bubble until it bursts, cash out, and let someone else clean up the mess.

MLS has a lot of flaws, but I don’t think promotion and relegation are really the solution. Someone investing in a new team is going to want some ability to assure themselves that it’s not going to be a total waste when the team gets pushed down to the second tier after two years, especially since the media rights for…

They’re never going to touch WWE’s market share precisely because WWE pulls shit like this to keep any stars from jumping ship to another promotion, ever (or at least keep them off the stage long enough to lose whatever heat they had). They learned their lesson from the WCW wars.

Ackerman McQueen helped transition the NRA from a niche gun enthusiast organization to the political powerhouse

I’m still waiting for the candidate with the courage to admit that the biggest problem for the project of political reform in this country is the Democratic Party. Everyone wants to blame Trump but no one wants to understand the problems of the system that created him.

You don’t have the tradition like you do in (American) football of the referee explaining the decisions in depth (which is itself only a decade or two old; I remember the days when you had to know the hand signs to know what foul was called). I think it’s less about the nuances of the offside rule (which a decent…

Hitting a player with a pitch needs to be an automatic ejection. If it’s intentional, the pitcher is trying to hurt the opposing team and needs to be thrown out. If it’s not intentional, the pitcher is a danger to everyone at the plate and needs to be thrown out. The fact that this would also help deal with a lot of…