Valbuena really is a phenom. I saw him score a header (he's 5ft tall on his toes) in a game he absolutely dominated against Germany in Paris a year or so ago and spent the whole metro ride back to the city explaining to incredulous young thugs that, yeah, seriously, with his head!

Your comment is stupid. Hollinger was brought in by Levien and has nothing to do with this situation, except that he will probably also leave now given the idiocy of Robert Pera.

What would be really impressive is if both teams forfeited. The Warriors could justify it in the same way (i.e., not wanting to financially benefit Sterling), and it wouldn't shape the playoff results beyond forcing the NBA's hand.

This is the second time I've seen this argument. Just for your own edification, the PFA list is a masturbatory exercise that only Americans care about because they just don't know better yet. De Gea is maybe a slightly better keeper, but I think most would say they were about even.

The Grizzlies had a lot of calls go against them, but I'm not sure this was one of them, although I would have filed it under "questionable." Gasol being pushed into an unset Westbrook and collecting a charge was a lot more infuriating.

"Going through him" tends to refer more to perpendicular tackles, not tackles where the other player maybe catches him and is actively trying to avoid contact. I could see a foul being called at the very most, but it's not a yellow card, Rooney is already mid-dive before the contact, and it probably should have just…

Dangerous! My word, you're a soft touch. Also, he wouldn't have gone through him, that refers to a completely different thing. Rooney was at greater risk from his diving than he was from Schweinsteiger.

This should be interesting. Say more.

Yeah, I did absolutely. It was deplorable obviously, but they get a penalty for christ's sake. It's your own fault if you mess that up. Are we going to start red carding players for diving to win penalties? Because cheating to earn a goal (penalty) is a pretty close correllary to cheating to deny one.

Yellow card. Every punishment doesn't have to be the most drastic recourse available.

There's real debate over this in world football at the moment, because it's actually a triple punishment. You give up a goal (and if they miss, too bad, because the point of a penalty is to act as if the foul had not occurred. A clear opportunity to score is replaced by a clear opportunity to score), you lose a player…

The question on everyone's mind is how long until the Brown's trade for him.

Oh there are plenty of places where you can still be a proud and open bigot. I'm in a relatively big and liberal-ish southern city but you don't even have to get all the way to the suburbs to find them.

Can someone briefly explain what the NBC issues were? I couldn't have cared less about the Olympics, but I do have some fondness for NBC for letting Community/P&R/30 Rock go on and for offering all Premier League games online, despite otherwise being a nightmare of a network.

Nope.

In American football you merely have to get vaguely close to the endzone or touch the pylon with it with no part of your body ever touching down there.

8.2 innings?