If you’re hanging out around people who bemoan the lack of travel calls, you need to find new people to hang out with. Read more

Whichever month the World Cup is. Read more

Dan and I both probably will, assuming they don’t postpone for weather. Read more

Burma Superstar. Read more

I think Harden is a perfectly cromulent choice for MVP. Read more

What opportunity did they miss? Read more

No, it did not. Sponsors fled the team, the city-owned stadium they played in tried to figure out what they could do, local women’s groups protested the decision, etc. Read more

The linked comment explains this somewhat, but my understanding (which might be wrong!) is that Bruno is technically innocent—or maybe more accurately, not guilty—until this appeal is heard, and so in effect it was holding an “innocent” man in prison for four years waiting to hear an appeal. Read more

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Not advocating it so much as guessing it’s what will happen. I would never advocate anybody spend any time on the internet; everyone deserves to have a brain less rotted by the internet than mine. Read more

This is one of the things I’m most interested in, too, especially because there have been numerous recruiting scandals in practically every traditional sport. Read more

Tomorrow is the 28th anniversary of the Hillsborough disaster. Read more

Put Gasol in the paint and either him or Brandan Wright has to guard a wing and gets toasted, plus Pau gets a completely unimpeded in-bounds. Read more

No, there is no hard number, because there is no actual cap on the damages. There are something like 4,500 plaintiffs in the lawsuit, but its terms will cover 20,000 ex-players. Players can be awards various amounts for different qualifying diagnoses, and nobody knows exactly what diagnosis each and every former… Read more

Thanks for the clarification; I’ll update. Read more

I tried these like 2 weeks ago cause the store had a buy one get one free. Read more

In the late 1990s, for at least one season, Wednesdays were both $1 tickets AND $1 hot dogs. I would see people come in, buy 10 hot dogs and leave, presumably to bring their $10-bounty of hot dogs to their family for dinner. Read more