Darius Rucker is having a great country career. Way off topic but he's really great.

You pretty much can only get Hep C from blood to blood contact so...sign me up.

Yup. Even the shithead players, to some extent. There's absolutely no reason amateur sports should be paired with college other than an accident of history.

Wow. I ended up feeling incredibly bad for almost every single party in this story. The faculty, the advisors, the players, damn near everyone. Well, except for the coaches and NCAA. Per usual.

Knee-jerk, sanctimonious revisionism of plays targeting the team who happened to fall on the wrong side of the chaotic, random, nonlinear dynamics of the fucking universe is the worst part of sports commentary (which is saying a lot)

I just can't enjoy a play where the only reason it works is the defenders unwillingness to destroy a walking QB in the name of sportsmanship.

If you notice, Ithe game will also be on in South Florida, because Brandon Weeden owns a condo in Del Boca Vista

No, it isn't. Atlanta has a very large and vibrant gay community. Did you just get that opinion off of a NY bagel made with special water?

Robert Downey: It appears the father retrieved a handgun and shot his son, it appears, six times.

People like you are unbearable.

right. he's just responding to market incentives. the only thing that can happen to him if he continues to play is he'll lose value. if he's #3 on the board, the probability that he'd be able to play well enough to be #2 or #1 between now and January is much, much lower than the probability that he'll play poorly or…

Bullshit. Name changes aren't federal. They're state.

Its not so obviously clear that diving into first is slower. Diving would be faster if it wasn't for the friction between the diver's body and the dirt. This is why football players dive for balls just out of reach or into the end zone instead of running through. So if one could plan their dive to end at the base it…

Well the TV announcers were Greg Gumbel and Dan Dierdorf...so that kind of answers that.

I still think the Titans safety is worse.

And yet, they still lost. I suppose they can feel good about losing when it wasn't their fault, but that wouldn't be my choice.

I don't think everyone in the country has directTV.

Yup. Just thought I'd put it at the head of my comment rather than paragraph three. Figured it might help balance out the effect of this article's headline and your use of the term "hater." But never in the world did I think anyone would pay attention. So... thanks!

Wins are not arbitrary. They are not as meaningful to a pitcher's performance as other metrics, but they are not arbitrary, which would suggest virtually no correlation between wins and performance.

It depends what you mean by "would" - if Gibson had batted without the cortisone, painkillers, etc., then he very likely would have had warning track power at best. In that sense, the drugs directly "enhanced" his performance. At some level, any drug is a performance-enhancing drug; why else would we take them? The…