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“Yeah? So?”
-- Steve Scalise

“What a great idea for a column! That bitch beat me to it!”
— Maureen Dowd

From the perspective of how a conference’s official TV outlet should handle an ugly situation like this, it’s a practical decision.

Bias showing here, but when’s the last time the Cardinals did anything to make themselves, you know, likeable?

Junior: “I think Wagner is one of the best ever.”

To improve their mental focus for the next tournament, they’ll be attending a concentration camp.

Women harming their futures, white, racist, oblivious, European — how long until Trump asks them out?

Since it’s a baseball story it’s appropriate to reply with, “swing and a miss.”

Socialists are so cunning they’ve installed the right-wing party to control all three branches of the federal government, and more than 60% of the state governments. Leaving right-wing supporters lots of time to troll, deflect, and take big, Dennis Hopperian huffs of the nitrous oxide that passes for oxygen in their…

+1 R.E.M. song.

And here I was thinking the “Mike D’Antoni’s system doesn’t work in the playoffs” criticism would be the lead. Foolish me.

Shoulda led with that, Jimmy.

When pressed further, Caldwell said, “We think he’s got a puncher’s chance of really abusing opposing defenses.”

A statement this smug, dismissive and borderline racist has to involve St. Louis in some way, doesn’t it?

Absolutely right. After heaping decades of scorn on liberals, conservatives are only now beginning to wonder why the subjects of that scorn aren’t very keen on working with them. That they have to wonder at all is revealing in itself.

Wisconsin Bears fans would be the worst, but they’ve been keeping a verrrrrrry low profile since 2010. And Mitch won’t help.

Wayne Allyn Root also sounds like an under-tested, over-hyped “herbal cure” that had to be pulled from market shelves for debilitating side effects.

It’s impossible for me to agree with this more than I do now.

Spot on. But boxing, being so (infrequent) event-driven, can charge pay-per-view fees that creep ever closer to being equivalent to what a league charges for an entire season’s worth of games.
The more fans realize they can get online pretty much everything they got on cable/satellite TV for roughly the same monthly…