Purely anecdotal, but between May of 1999 when I finished my freshman year of college and September of 1999 when I started my sophomore year, I grew three inches and dropped a significant amount of body fat and added lean muscle (though my overall weight only went up about ten pounds).

They should sign the promising rookie kicker the Bengals cut in favor of Randy Bullock, a guy who wasn’t good enough for the Texans.

That took a little getting used to, and I found that if I got snow or dirt on the car, the lens got blocked. Hopefully that won’t happen with the Lexus.

“2-3 year deal loaded with terms” is potentially optimistic at this point, considering he’s already had two extremely severe knee injuries.

If this guy really wanted to improve the program, he’d just resign and they could hire another running backs coach, because that’s apparently all they have going for them. I think that’s the most one-dimensional team I’ve seen in recent memory - they controlled the tempo and the clock when it was close, but when Penn…

I swear the current Bengals’ coaching staff have never seen Darren Sproles play (or forget his ability moments after completing a game against him), as they’ve got a similar back in Giovanni Bernard and have failed to utilize his full skillset since his rookie season.

The only problem I could see with that is, as has been pointed out elsewhere in these comments, Bell has to be on the active roster for at least six weeks to accrue the final season he needs to hit the free agent market. If he sits out for the first four games, they play Cincinnati his second week back, and Vontaze…

Samesies.

I didn’t realize how bad it was for Raiders fans until I saw Drew’s list of acquisitions - Frostee Rucker AND Leon Hall? Those guys weren’t even particularly good when they were Bengals, and their prime was five years ago (charitably).

Counterpoint: the header photo of Marvin Lewis is also necessary for people who can’t read good.

I love Votto, but that contract is an abomination. At least the Pirates were able to trade Cutch when he started to fall off of a cliff; the Reds will have no hope of that, even though Votto is a better player in basically every metric.

Alabama just lets out a whistling laugh, which would be impressive considering their mouth is closed, if not for all of the missing teeth.

Ever been to Heinz Field? The under-the-overpass lots are the NICE tailgating spots.

Hey, uh, Bengals fan here...we’ve still got the longest drought without a playoff win, thanks.

“Uber is a car and a driver, that’s all it is,” Riccio told Jalopnik. “A yellow car is a car and a driver. If the city needed more cars it should’ve sold medallions. If it sold medallions you would’ve had more jobs for drivers, they would earn a reasonable income as taxi drivers have through the decades have…

I don’t even think he needs to be penalized for hitting only a third of his takedowns. Based on the rules that the judges were supposed to be judging Johnson/Cejudo by, “a successful takedown is not merely a changing of position, but the establishment of an attack from the use of the takedown”.

Not just southern states - Ohio too!

Judging from the flooring and tables, this is a buffet at one of the Fertitta-owned Station Casinos (I stayed in one for seven weeks while working a remediation job in Henderson, NV). While the food there was certainly passable (and sometimes even good), I think Denny’s and/or Taco Bell would be about on par.

I’d add hurdle #3, at least to the Western Conference Finals: LeBron James. He’s proven he can take an incredibly inept team to the NBA Finals basically on his own, and while the East is definitely inferior to the West, I wouldn’t bet against LeBron + whatever team the Lakers build around him against any team but…

I’m in the minority, I would imagine, in that I despise ketchup. What started as a mere aversion as a kid transformed into a full-blown hatred after serving my time as a McDonald’s employee in my teens and early twenties and having to scrape/scrub dried ketchup off of literally every surface in the restaurant.