I’m a Canadian from Edmonton, Alberta who also lives in Berlin. I’m going to tell the next German who tells me they love the Oilers because of Leon Draisaitl to fuck off claiming false allegiance to my sports team and stop being a lame idiot.

Fandom for any team in any sport is artificial. You think JJ Watt or Kyle Long cares about you? You think Dan Rooney or Jeanie Buss gives a fuck?

Thanks for the primer on avoiding the “lame idiot” moniker in your book, I’m sure the people are thrilled to finally know the criteria.

What about people from other countries who support NBA or MLB teams? Or someone from Africa or South America who supports an English side?

You can mock all you want, but I’d still rather watch Bayern Munich than New York Red Bulls

Who hurt you?

But once we live in Europe we can root for whoever we want, right?

Why does anyone have a reason to be a fan of any team, short of playing for that team or having a relative who does or did?

Fandom gatekeeping. What a twist. 

I started watching on Fox Sports in the mid-1990s when I was in high school and got a soccer rush after the 1994 World Cup. Does 23 years of being a Liverpool fan reach your threshold of fandom?

“...and is secure in his legacy as the greatest-ever player from outside the United States...”

If you think baseball is more about codes of honor than getting 27 outs and more runs than the other guy, then you have constructed a fake sport in your mind.

Overall, I thought the reffing was ok, considering how bad reffing usually is, but obviously they missed calls during the game. I don’t have a running list, but I specifically remember Guy stripping the ball from an Auburn player that was called a foul, even though it was all ball AND the guy was given two shots when…

The double dribble should have been a moot point, anyway. The Auburn defender yanked Jerome’s jersey before Jerome recovered the ball. If people are going to bitch and moan about a missed call, bitch and moan about that one, too, which would have stopped the play before a double dribble.

Gary sounds like a real EBITch

And in the other corner, the team from Charlottesville, where if you protest white supremacists you get run over.

That was still a foul, though, and if it had been called there would have been no double dribble.

The furor over the double dribble non call is driving me a little batty, and seems to be entering NFL “what is a catch”territory. Without having a rule book next to me, just 30-whatever years of watching and playing basketball, it seemed to me (before the experts caught it and chimed in) that as soon as the ball…

I’ve been riding the Virginia bandwagon hard since they lost to UMBC and thus am incapable of seeing these plays with any sense of objectivity, but I did want to add one thing: right before Jerome lost the ball and picked it back up, Brown reaches out and fouls Jerome once. It’s a touch foul, but a foul (it also helps…

Dating back to last season, Davis finds himself 0 for his last 38