Wow, you're right...

If you can't trust your offense to gain one yard, then why have an offense?

Good stuff. As a Falcons fan, I was terrified that Carolina wouldn't be dumb enough to punt. The moment they took that delay of game, confirming they were exactly that dumb, was just as exciting as Roddy White's catch a few minutes later.

At risk of ruining it all just by saying anything, this is one of the most legitimately progressive things I've ever seen on the internet. Well done.

I take it to mean that the police denying you any or all of those things is something that very well might happen (so be prepared), which isn't necessarily the same as saying the police can legally deny you those things. Police violate people's rights all the time, and in the short term there might not be much you can…

There's probably something to that. It's not that baseball's payroll disparity is (relatively) meaningless; it's that if payrolls were any less disparate baseball would be even more of a crapshoot than it is.

We've learned nothing about how replaceable the regular NFL referees are, because the replacements are far from the next best refs available. No one with any real NFL aspirations would have agreed to be a replacement ref because (a) they'd be black-listed by the union, and (b) I assume any ref with realistic NFL…

I think your calculator's upside-down. 44/311 = 0.14148, or 14%.

No, there's nothing wrong with the numbers. 44/311 is about 14%. About one in seven.

Well said.

Not sure if you're misunderstanding my comment or I'm misunderstanding yours, but I think players at the top level of college football absolutely deserve a fair share of the revenue they generate. Whether that means paying college players or somehow breaking up the NCAA's monopoly on just-out-of-high-school talent (so…

I'd go with whichever school comes closest to paying their players a decent wage. So, USC, I assume.

The realities of basketball make it highly unlikely that a player will pull off their best dunk during a game, so the NBA holds an annual slam dunk contest. The realities of baseball make it highly unlikely that a player will hit their longest home run during a game, so MLB holds an annual home run derby.

The issue isn't the extra 7 seconds, it's the fact that Detroit was able to go into their last drive with a timeout remaining, which carries all kinds of unquantifiable strategic implications.

I think with the NFL, like others have said, there's a sense of hopelessness—that doping is too ingrained to ever be eliminated—combined with a (somewhat less widespread) sense that stricter enforcement would ruin football as we know it.

Shit, I forgot about the NBC-Comcast merger. I have Comcast too, but I can't watch the online streaming because my Comcast subscription isn't good enough, or some such nonsense I don't understand. I was already angry about that, and now I'm even angrier.

I caught one of ESPN's daytime chatter shows last week and one of the panelists—I can't remember his name—said something to the effect of, first of all, the NCAA shouldn't get involved, but if they do, it should absolutely be the death penalty. Because there's a self-evident absurdity in trying to measure the cost of…

This was my first thought too. It seems obvious (for whatever difficult-to-articulate reason) that it's not the case here, but still, I've definitely seen a few alleged Wikipedia-copiers be vindicated when it turned out that their content was published first. The best way to remove all doubt is to link directly to the…