Chelsea drops more points to bad competition. Why does this happen every damned year? It seems like every year, starting with November, the damned wheels fall off for Chelsea. It’s been baffling. This November wasn’t the Greek tragedy that the last couple have been, but it wasn’t awesome, either. The Blues kicked this season’s chokefest off by losing to Newcastle.
Read moreHopefully this will be an example to all those corrupt professors responsible for NCAA football cheating. Our friend Otherwise called this one to my attention. Former UNC professor charged HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. — A former professor at the center of an academic scandal involving athletes at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been charged with a felony, accused
Read moreShortly after yesterday’s epic Iron Bowl – I don’t use that word “epic” very often, but they’ll be talking about this one a century from now, assuming American football is still being played – I heard a pundit opine that Alabama quarterback AJ McCarron’s Heisman Trophy hopes were now dead. Seriously?
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Bend over USMNT. The Group of Death is headed your way. UPDATED: It’s official. Good news: the US men’s soccer team has qualified for the World Cup in Brazil next summer. Bad news: they’re fucked.
Read moreI hope when Sepp Blatter retires from FIFA he takes over as head of the IOC. I can’t wait to see the Winter Olympics in Dubai.
Read moreI might need some of my astrology expert friends to weigh in here. We began with a World Series where both teams had new managers, and one of them had never been a manager before at any level, if I understand correctly. This is unusual. Then we had a WS game end on an interference call for the first time
Read moreBefore the season began, I fully expected my Red Sox to finish last in the AL East. (I wasn’t the only one.) I figured Ellsbury and Petey would be solid, but past that there were so very many discouraging things to consider: New manager: there was reason to be hopeful about John Farrell, but still, new guy at the helm
Read moreAs explained to me by my 14 year-old daughter, Chloe. So, the St. Louis Rams had their star QB Sam Bradford, who is majorly hot, go down for the season with a knee injury? And word is Tim Tebow was thinking here was his chance – an NFL team needs a quarterback and he’s an NFL quarterback? But the Rams
Read moreThe Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio (FIGC), the governing body of football in Italy, just broke bad on AC Milan over its supporters abusive behavior. Gab Marcotti at ESPN FC explains. The Italian FA charged Milan for the fact that some of their fans engaged in racist abuse during Sunday night’s match against Napoli. In accordance with the regulations, the stand
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Last weekend I was near despair. As I wrote Sunday, I had marched forth in search of a Chelsea FC community here in my new city only to come up empty. Given the vibrance of the Rocky Mountain Blues supporters club in Denver, I was not exaggerating when I explained the emptiness and disappointment I was feeling. Within a couple
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UEFA (the governing body of European football) has given its tentative approval to moving the 2022 World Cup to the winter. The prospect of a winter World Cup in 2022 took a step forward after European football chiefs agreed a summer event could not be played in Qatar. Summer temperatures in the Gulf state can reach 50C, sparking health fears
Read morePeriodically friends will accuse me of being “pure evil.” I cherish these moments, and am proud of the fact that my mind goes where no demented mind has gone before. But it can be something of a plague, because there’s this part of me that thinks if I’m that sinister, other people must be, too. This quality has not rendered
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When my marriage fell apart in 2010 I quickly realized just how much of my social life was tied to my wife’s friends and family. I had friends of my own, of course, but most were married with families, or they lived way the hell out in the ‘burbs. Very few were of the “let’s go grab a quick beer”
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Crisis reveals character, they say. I hope you read Otherwise’s piece on Riley Cooper the other day. It’s truly an exceptional example of the kind of honest, intelligent thinking I’ve come top expect from my colleagues here at S&R. But while I agree with most of the principles underlying Otherwise’s reasoning, I’m not sure I’m convinced that they apply to
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In the immortal words of Reese Bobby, if you ain’t first, you’re last. He isn’t the only one who thinks that, either. I once listened to a radio interview as the host tried to engage Tiger Woods on the topic of his legacy, with the general thrust being “what if you don’t break Jack Nicklaus’s record for most majors?” Repeatedly
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