I had that thought last time this came up. When people describe the conditions that make relegation work so well in Europe—the popularity of the sport, the massive infrastructure already in place, the fact that there are hundreds of teams with rich histories and fan bases loyal enough to weather a few years in a lower…
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One of the problems with Big Government is that it's fond of giving tax breaks to the politically powerful at the expense of the powerless. Not that complicated.
It's unfortunate that people are giving you so much crap—I completely agree that it would be worthwhile to compare the two sets of data. But, in response to this:
Thank you. Best comment I've read here in a long time.
But the competition is also stiffer, and defenses have time to gameplan against specific stars, forcing them to pass.
The big news was spoiled by—of all people—R.E.M.'s bass player
Right. I agree with you (more or less). Women's sports are inherently exclusionary, and the line has to be drawn somewhere. I don't know the science well enough to know if CrossFit has drawn it in the right place, so I have no opinion on that right now.
Yes, I doubt it has much to do with the basic nature of sex-segregated athletic competition. How about the fact that countless assholes (on the internet and off) feel like they can treat transgender people like shit with impunity, compounded over years and years of abuse and disrespect? That might be a factor.
No opinion on the merits of the lawsuit, but I'm just going to leave this here for everyone who thinks they've come up with a hilarious joke about Ms. Jonsson's appearance and/or genitals.
I'd like to see a metric that weights the events differently, based on how many events the athletes compete in. The best hockey team can still only add one medal to your overall medal count, but a great skier or speedskater can win several medals.
I'd really, really like to know what the Hawks did to Josh Smith before that 2009-10 season. I looked into the game logs once, and all seven of his threes that year were taken in the last few seconds of a quarter, presumably out of desperation. I assume several were from midcourt or deeper.
But if you have 10-6 and the flop is 10-10-6, it's impossible for someone else to have 10-10.
I wonder if there were any voters who didn't vote for Maddux because there were more than 10 players they wanted to vote for, and they knew Maddux would get in anyway.
Not that that's a good reason either, but it's better than doing it as a dumb protest, I guess.
I'm hesitant to build this argument around Charlotte who can't wipe their own asses properly
If the NCAA had a draft for players coming out of high school, and someone proposed getting rid of it, people would be flipping out because no one would choose to play in Tuscaloosa, Lincoln, College Station, Blacksburg, Boise . . .
Authorities arrested four men Saturday night [December 17, 2011] at or nearby Raymond James Stadium in connection with the counterfeit ticket operation.
Three of the men — Albert Carlos Ford II, 30; Tony Denario Davis, 26; Oterious Lamar Wims, 26 — came from Atlanta, rented a white van and a white Chevrolet Tahoe, and…
I agree (that margin of victory is overrated). But if you reduce the impact of blowouts it becomes a lot more useful. Here's the margin of victory for the top five teams if you cap each game at 21 (also, like the MrSEC article, this excludes games against I-AA opponents and deducts the deficit in losses):
Maybe I'm missing something, but it seems like the most likely reason for excluding W-L records is that it would make it obvious which three teams are from the SEC, which would defeat the whole purpose.
As a Hawks fan, …
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… let's talk about something else.