El Banana Segundo would be a great name for a race horse.

I never understood the second banana thing. Which banana was Magic in the Abdul-Jabbar, Worthy, Magic bunch. Even though Bird was the better player, do you really think McHale or Parish thought they were the second banana? Try telling Shaq or Kobe that one of them was el banana segundo.

Hold up, LeBron got to win a couple chips with a dream team in Miami but Durant can’t because of...reasons? Durant + Splash Bros + a couple of rings raises his profile x10 and would prevent Bron from ever winning another.

7.6/10 on the bayless scale

You need more joy in your life.

Another take: Rickon is a fucking idiot, who threw away the chance for Ned Stark’s only legitimate, non-magic son to rule because he didn’t know how to run serpentine.

Meanwhile...

Your Copa América semifinalists:

Zardes was clearly onside when Dempsey shot. Is this about the anti-Wambach comments from the USMNT? Or did some other “I hate the USMNT” bug crawl up in you?

That was probably the best I’ve ever seen the US team play. It’s goddamn shame what happened to Davies.

I was joking to a friend that we should forfeit the Spain game so we only had a 3-0 loss on our record when I turned on the TV RIGHT AS ALTIDORE SCORED AND MADE PIQUE AND PUYOL LOOK LIKE TINY WEAK CHILDREN. As horrible and mockable and frustrating and inconsistent as he is I will always root for Jozy

“’You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.’-Wayne Gretzky”

That 2009 Confederations Cup semi against Spain. Holy shit. US ran the #1 team in the world off the pitch (they had a 35-game unbeaten steak coming in).

I still love the random Germany guy jumping and going “WOO” in the background of that gif.

I’ll take that bet. Say what you want about the US, they very rarely get their asses kicked by more than 1 or 2 goals in major tournaments.

There is one rational argument for why the U.S. could win, or at least maximize its chances. Argentina only has two days between their QF and the SF. The U.S. should try to cling in the 1st half without conceding, let Argentina do the hard work in the first half, and it’s possible that Argentina will be dead toward…

- Michael Scott

Beckerman covering Messi, yeah not good.

An article about what the Warriors did wrong and nothing about Harrison Barnes?