Two teams I loathe - the Steelers and the Giants - are self-immolating for the dumbest of reasons, while at least one team I wish nothing but the best for - the Browns - is on the upswing? This is so delicious, it has to be fattening.
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“Don’t quit on talent,” Read more

Biggest factor in Isles favor regarding Belmont plan is that the site is completely owned by New York State and not by Nassau County. Previous attempts at rebuilding at the Coliseum site or developing a brand new arena as part of Wang’s lighthouse project, were all negatively impacted by the less-than-capable minds of… Read more

Tidbit: A member of the Gorton Fish Sticks family (Slade Gorton) filed the lawsuit against the American League that resulted in the creation of the Seattle Mariners, who’ve won three playoff series over the last 35 years. Read more

On the one hand, the Brooklyn move didn’t turn out well. On the other hand, I’m pretty much convinced that any owner other than Wang would’ve been much more impatient and moved the Islanders out of the NY area entirely years earlier. No way to prove that, but still. Read more

Neil, this is a great article, but one thing I think is missing is the fact that there’s no actual mass transit option to Nassau Coliseum - the closest station to the Coli is the Hempstead LIRR station about 2.6 miles away.  I think it confuses me that people are freaking out about Belmont having limited LIRR options… Read more

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I have no idea what is happening on that netball clip, and it absolutely affected my ability to get hyped on it.  Read more

I’m having a hard time believing that “netball” thing wasn’t just a context-free excerpt from a Tim and Eric show. Read more

World Series 7s is a delight and I can’t recommend it enough, it’s on ESPN+ in the US. Team USA is currently 1st in the standings, the games are breezy, fun and quick. Check it out, y’all.
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good for him (traveled tho) but the sports highlight of the weekend was Ronnie O’Sullivan’s 1000th career century break. Being a genius, he pulled it off to win the tournament as well:

When I was but an aspiring young scribe in j-school, I had an instructor who encouraged us to read outside of our areas of interest. Short form, long form, novels, non-fiction...whatever. He basically just didn’t want a bunch of idiot 19- and 20-year-olds pigeonholing ourselves into anything. For me, golf was one area… Read more

I mean it makes sense, if as a draftee you’re trying to elevate your position, who better to coach you than a guy with first-hand experience on what type of BS will fool the types of GM’s who have high first round picks. Read more

Charley: Ok, say it with me Kyler - “I’m a 6'5 white QB with a lunch pail attitude and a heart of gold!” Read more

So EXOS hired failed GMs, who don’t know how to draft well, to HELP potential draftees do better?

Casserly is wrong so often that he’s about to get Lombardi’s slot at The Ringer. Read more

between this and Manafort’s sentencing, pretty big day for ignoring RapSheets Read more

Bills fans this morning are destroying property, calling Brown racial slurs and drunkenly getting into fistfights so, you know, you can just imagine how they’ll react when they hear about this. Read more

As a Bills, fan, I’ll respond to this responsibly: Heavy drinking and shattering tables. Grant you, that’s how I respond to everything else, but consistency is a key part of The Process.
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I had the chance to meet him two times. He was the nicest, kindest, gentleman you could ever hope to meet. You wouldn’t think he was the kind of player he was by talking to him or standing beside him. (I fought a lot in hockey and when I met him, I had about 5 inches and a good 40lbs on him) I didn’t know any of the… Read more