First year trying to follow the EPL, so tell me, this is bullshit, right? I mean, there’s 34 games left. I get that City is a top 2 team, and they have a good early lead on the best team. But... I mean, this has to be hyperbole.

Not the point of the article of course, but Sharapova second rate? Come on. She’s got the career grand slam. No Serena, but not “second rate.”

I actually flinch every time through that gif

That paragraph though...

Barry, your claim (“this was the first time since the dead-ball era that every single game was won by the home team”) is not the same as what Elias said ("Entering Tuesday, the most wins on a day where home teams won every game in @MLB was 12 on May 23, 1914."). Elias leaves open the possibility that there were…

The coaches must hate having to play Vivek Ranadive's kid.

Surely they don’t have a right to his phone. But it seems reasonable that they might ask for his phone, and take his voluntary cooperation (or as happened, the lack thereof) into account when considering a punishment should they conclude that he did something wrong.

Did he really say Rerrick Dose though?

I am first impulse is certainly not that.

What happened to the long comment thread about the practice of using British English practices in all these soccer stories? I wanted to add my two cents but now all I've done is create my own comment like an IDIOT.

Query: Do the percentages on kicks made from the 30-35 range take into account botched snaps/holds—situations in which there is, technically, no kick attempted?

What’s the right take?

Albert Burneko is not smart.

Greggggggg spelled wave wrong. Normally I'm not a fan of pointing out typos on the Internet, but when it's Greggggg it just feels right.

Match-fixing #3, because "taking dives is a sports crime that really, truly, fucks with the integrity of the competition"

Was Del Rio actually fired?

These have been around for ages...

I'm finally working up the courage to ask this. Why is it that in soccer, and soccer alone, when referring to a city, we treat it as a plural, and adjust our verbs accordingly? Soccer: Barcelona are a complete disaster. Basketball: New York is a complete disaster. Please, help me sleep at night.

it was a financial catastrophe for the Tiffany network.