D3 school ... with a bad football team at that. Watching bad D3 football in 35-degree Minnesota weather is worse than waterboarding. Read more

One of the funniest things about our staff is that, while our outlook generally tends towards the cynical and world-weary, we get so. fucking. hyped. for every single 16-year-old Next Big Thing American soccer prospect. Read more

I’ve been just downing orange ginger tea lately. Read more

In the spirit of this week’s theme—No, No More Schlongform—Bobby Finger. The amount of jokes, references, one-liners, burns, and wit that he packs into short pieces, or pieces that seem benign, is incredible. Read more

I criticize basketbloggers a lot, but while as a collective borg they’re damn annoying, there are a lot of really good ones, and they’re still better than your stereotypical trash newspaper columnist. Read more

I applied for a credential to cover two games of the NBA Finals last season, and though they credential thousands of media—almost literally anyone who applies—I got denied. Read more

College football. Read more

Gawker and, weirdly considering I never play video games, Kotaku. Read more

We talk Future Of Media stuff a lot and get into big arguments about whether a new site will succeed, if some revenue model is bogus or not, whether some popular writer is good or just popular, etc. Read more

Water first ... except in my bathroom where for some reason I have that hard-core, gritty, orange-smelling automotive soap, that you gotta use pre-water. Read more

The Daily Show hasn’t been THE DAILY SHOW since the Bush presidency. That’s not to say it didn’t have great characters or bits or incisive characters, but I think a lot of its charm in the latter Stewart years was nostalgia. Read more

Starting now I am banning anybody that mentions traveling. Read more

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My favorite part is the Devils announcer beginning to explain how “there’s a nerve” in your calf that would make you jump three feet in the air a second after being slashed. Read more

What’s the difference? Read more

The connection here is that Kelvin Thomas, the chairman of Northampton Town, co-owns the Shaq-Fu radio station with Shaq. Read more

Ear scratches. Read more

From Paul Coro’s story: Read more

I’m assuming they only have rights to the raw feed but not any commentators, because the highlights CONCACAF puts up on YouTube never have commentators. Same with Ligue 1 highlights. Read more

As we wrote about last summer before the World Cup, and what ultimately came true, is that Press was one of the many USWNT studs who deserved to but didn’t really get a chance to shine at the World Cup because of the stacked roster/insistence in playing Abby Wambach-ball. Read more