Of course they could try and fix this issue by making it a golden goal situation like hockey, and giving teams additional subs after certain time benchmarks. But it is almost impossible to convince FIFA to change anything about the rules of soccer. they finally implemented goal line tech just a few years ago. In…

It’s also because it’s an event that FIFA doesn’t control.

One. One of the best players. And Neymar opted out of playing in the Copa America - which most Brazilians would tell you is the more prestigious tourney - because he wanted to play for his home country and try and make up for a smidgeon of the bad taste left over from the World Cup.

They need to change it. So stupid and anti-climactic.

In theory, I agree. That said, two exhausted teams playing until a goal is scored sounds like shitty soccer to be.

Admittedly, I am not a soccer fan. But settling a major championship on the basis of a skills competition has always seemed wrong.

Pheel Seeems sucks all of our assholes.

It’s like taking Simms off the air would be an acknowledgement that CTE is real.

So, NBC gets Mike Tirico to supposedly do TNF, among other things, and the NFL won’t let them do the primary thing NBC hired him to do? That is Peak No Fun League.

So Lochte basically told the Cartman version of the story

The governing organization is an echo chamber of idiocy. They don’t seed the wrestlers. This match should have been the finals and in primetime but hey.....that might actually make sense.

“Fuckin’ amateurs.”

Can anyone explain why the No. 1 wrestler in the world was playing the No. 2 wrestler in the world in the quarterfinals?

I have the same gait when I have to poop.

So, a bribe.

This reminds me of those “mandatory volunteer hours” required to be in National Honor Society in high school. Yeah, it helps somebody. But the reason it’s being done is relatively selfish.

Did Lochte lie or just shade the truth? The story on deadspin published last night seems to be the most accurate and comprehensive order of events.

4 piss ass drunk swimmers vandalize a gas station at 6am. Security comes up and demands compensation speaking a foreign language and a gun may or may not have been drawn.

In…

People were being super rude about her tears. Losing is disappointing, especially in something that matters so much to you. I’ll never fault someone for how they react.

I wrestled for 10 years, including two at the college level. Wrestling is so draining and mentally fatiguing, it is not uncommon for people to lose it like that, both winning and losing. Top on some Japanese culture, never losing in the Olympics, and you get that picture.

That was the saddest thing. Yoshida just knelt on the mat and bawled. A delegate from Japan was hanging out the medals, and when he got to her, she started bawling again, and then apologized to him. (I’m assuming for the loss.)