Your “It’s Never Not Time To Ice” Wednesday Open Thread

I hope you ran your laps today, because dinner is a healthy helping of NUGGETS! Apparently Cal-Lutheran is into deals with the devil, because they signed a two-year deal to let the Rams train in their facility until Stan Kroenke finishes building his Metroplex. According to a story at Deadspin, Chip Kelly threw

CrimeBeat!: Thirty Days Has Smarch

Oh god. The nightmares. The craving. The soul-crushing emptiness for those of us who do not Sully Ourselves with thoughts of Lesser Sports. The Bleakness walks among us, fellow pilgrims. It's another month until the draft. Another goddamned month. There is precious little relief in sight. Unless Will Fuller does the

Huh, What – Head Punches Cause Concussions?

In another example of Roger Goodell being able to point at another sports league and cackle maniacally, the NHL is being exposed as willfully knowing that fighting causes head trauma, and that head trauma can lead players to do extreme things. Also, there's an implicit understanding through the email chain

Is NFL the new Tobacco?

The New York Times did a great write up on the flawed science behind the NFL concussion studies. You can read the whole thing for yourself here. Sure you can read the headline and think it is a bit of a reach. I mean on one hand you have an

Balls of Steel’s AFL Beat – Round One

One of the things I love about this league is that it always brings you surprises.  Some are pleasant and some not, but it is not easy to predict what will happen week to week.  Maybe this is why the AFL has embraced gambling and has an online sportsbook as