No, Dungy is taking a shit-heel way out by acting as if he's doing Michael Sam a favor and/or doing his team a favor by not allowing "a circus." Consequently, it's passive-aggressive homophobia by pretending that by simply deflecting and not wanting to "deal with it," somehow it's the media's fault.

I'd be fine with either, honestly. I'm not crazy about a Black Widow movie (she's not that interesting, sorry), or Storm (who I wish like hell actually had a personality), but either Ms. Marvel or Captain Marvel would be awesome.

Costa Rica probably represents the best shot at having our region not look like the kids on the short bus

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"Oh shit, when you said 'bridesmaid ass' I thought you meant.... Sorry dudes, my bad."

raspberry noise?

I mentioned to a friend recently that I thought men's basketball should go back to shorty shorts. She thought I was kidding. I was absolutely not kidding. I think it's time to swing back towards shorty shorts on men in general. Let's go for it!

Hubs and I have actually signed up for an comprehensive ESPN package purely so I can get full access to international rugby coverage. I mean, yeah, my husband is a former rugger, but that shit is for me.

because it's a difficult physique to achieve, rugby is an extremely physically demanding sport. it gives you amazing thighs, but you have to work for it -a female rugby player

Not a loss, but it feels like it

Agree. (says the divorced person who didn't attempt it until WAY too late)

Why exactly are Americans so pessimistic about the USMNT? Obviously we don't have the prestige or pedigree of the other teams in our group or other teams in the tournament, but I think we're forgetting that the current USMNT are not the headless chickens that they were in the past. Also, if we look due south, Mexico…

I just have to share this text my mom sent me yesterday:

The U.S. beat Ghana (and led them for 86 minutes, no matter how badly some people want to argue that we were "dominated.") Ghana then got a draw with a Germany team that beat the absolute piss out of Portugal.

I know that the law of transitivity doesn't work in sports, but if it did, the U.S. would go through with 9…

I don't know if it helps but Deadspin lists links to watch streaming of the matches!

Yeah, I like Ballack, Van Nistelrooy, and Roberto Martinez.

I've watched far more of this WC than any previous one, and I'm coming to the realization that this is basically the rest of the world's March Madness, and with an extra layer of national pride poured on top. The appeal is starting to make more sense to me now.

I have to hand it to him: there's very few players not named Lionel Messi who can individually create offense the way Arjen Robben can.

As an educator, I look at this as a mathematical equation. When you take games (g), multiply them by a common Binomial Coefficient (as in this example),