Yes, sending it’s players to compete in the Olympics will make the NHL bigger in the American sporting consciousness. That’s why MLB (which never sent it’s athletes to the Olympics when baseball was in them,) the NBA (which does allow it’s players to go during the offseason and loudly complains about it the whole…

To be fair to the NHL, it’s been in the Olympics since 2008, and it hasn’t helped them climb out of 4th.

Am American, can confirm this attitude.

I’d like to use this opportunity to shit on NHL owners, but interrupting the middle of the season for the Olympics every four years really does suck and there aren’t really any ways to make it not. If they didn’t put basketball in the summer games, the NBA would be doing the same thing. But I’m a shitty American who…

I’m coming to this cold and give zero shits about hockey, but aren’t the Olympics being dicks here, too? License the fucking rings to the NHL for supplying the most valuable athletes in the Games and the problem goes away, right?

I’ve seen teams take shot-clock violations; I’ve seen the Wizards themselves do it a handful of times. It’s fine! It’s even kind of admirable, I suppose.

I’m honestly not sure I’ve ever seen a team “hold the ball and take a shot clock violation.” I’m also pretty sure that letting the terrible shooter have fun IS a pretty common late game thing.

Don’t know answer to that but just saw that this is the first time in MLB history that a pitcher hits two on team’s opening day. That’s a goddamn lot of opening day pitchers.

So... when was the last time a starting pitcher had a 2-HR day?

Please stop posting old articles as new stories just for additional clicks.

This whole thing has Inception-level layers of stupid.

“Rather than trying to argue that the NCAA’s regulations are grossly unfair to the athletes and should therefore be invalid, or something similar, Smack Apparel president Wayne Curtiss instead tries making an irrelevant argument about satire in his response to the cease-and-desist.”

I’m absolutely gobsmacked to see a Deadspin writer cite NCAA amateurism regulations as somehow controlling the business activities of an unaffiliated private business.

a few others before him had jumped to the old ABA after only one year

Oh shut the fuck up, this has nothing to do with Trump, hazing has been happening before he came around and will continue to do so after he leaves office

Cool your jets, genius. Sex assault wasn’t invented in November.

You may not want them to be forced, but the inherent pressure to keep up means you’re doing just that for every person who wants to play that sport. Also, what happens to college players? High school players? They’re gonna have to take them too in order to prepare for the pros. You trust *every* small town team to…

Way to miss the entire point, Captain Pedant.

Because other athletes didn’t take them, and followed the rules as currently written.

He’s bacne!