I agree. It's a totally different sport. But in addition, the ugly fruit is also the fact that these kinds of gestures have gotten so popular that people don't think about the consequences or logistical coordination/communication. They get caught up in the good deed-doing of the whole thing (and probably their own…

The "ugly fruit" is this... Basketball is one thing but it's wholly irresponsible to put a kid with special needs on a football field and not make it clear to the other team what's going on. It's become a thing and that "thing" has morphed into "look how great we are doing this for this kid!" and safety/common sense…

This is a good write up but it's pretty clear that it was just a fight over a misunderstanding relates to sportsmanship. Certainly doesn't read like a deliberate provocation or anything specifically targeted at special needs students. The headline and phrase "ugly fruit that has spawned" makes it seem like a…

Eh, it's all right. Those things happen. When you want football, you get wrestling, right?

Solid left jab, solid right hook, hasn't taken a solid dump in 6 years.

Coughlin is that high because of the league's sponsorship agreement with Life Alert.

Nathan's Famous won't put ketchup on your hot dog for you.

I lived in NYC for 7 years, and that is absolutely not what I remember.

"No ketchup on hot dogs" is the only food rule that New York and Chicago agree on.

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I heard that Stevie Wonder doesn't watch hockey but that's also by choice.

Look, as someone from Boston with a ton of hockey friends, I can comfortably say that they're all racists.

I wouldn't be surprised if a team gives him a flyer. The amount of RBs this year currently hurt with long recovery injuries is pretty staggering, according to my super scientifically accurate method of going off my fantasy football team having to replace one literally every week this year.

I was on the fence about this year's version... until this. Absolute purchase now.

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Stikc ot sprots

1) Being from the Midwest is not a race. 2) Drew is from the Midwest. 3) How insecure of your beliefs and likes do you have to be to go to bat for an entire region of the country?