A Clásico and EPL Saturday AM Open Thread

Well of course I signed up for spot duty here. I love top-flight football, in many ways the opposite of the NFL. The NFL is micromanaged, start-and-stop lawyerball with armored athletic specimens banging into each other—all under the watch of a dozen officials on the field and the ether. Fútbol is the

What’s The Point: LA-B @ Chefs ONLY on NFLN Open Thread

You’d think a Saturday divisional game for the playoffs would warrant the broadest audience possible. Who the hell knows anymore. The NFL does not seem concerned with bringing the game to the widest audience, or at least enjoys—much more—petty turf wars with TV-signal providers who refuse to indulge the league with

Monday Night Feast! Colts @ Titans Open Thread

Both teams are 2-3, and fill the bottom half of the lowest wattage division in the NFL. Luck is out. Mariota (hamstring - questionable) says he'll go--i.e., Cassel is definitely in the mix. But enough table-setting. This is my  position on "Pfft, baseball's on" taeks: Artist's lesss handome conception via lolafilms.com IND-TEN is

Boots On The Ground: Hurricane María

On Sept. 20 María, category 5 (the highest), tore through Puerto Rico with winds over 175 mph. I took this picture when the storm was leaving; both 25 ft. palm trees were uprooted to the left, and fronds are blowing to the right. Hurricane María parked, in the middle of Puerto

NFL Week 1 Bettors’ Guide

Ted Kaczynski: Gambling is the prime dehumanizer of the monetary system! I will NOT-- Door Flies Open: SHHH! Let me do the intro. [clears throat] I’m on Skype with the most notorious inmate of the Colorado Supermax. He's the only PhD on this site to have 100% accuracy predicting NFL games. Ted

Two Word Review: Chic Sandwich – Titans 2017 Preview

Last year the Titans finished 9-7, and have been generating buzz ever since. Since February, I've been reading that they're expected to win the AFC South this season. The offensive linemen became celebrities thanks to a Stanley Cup run by the Predators and catfish fetishists: Even schedule makers are complicit in

White Men Deserve a Break

Happy Fourth of July. During lunch at work, I came across Roland Merullo's "In Defense of The White Male", published in the Boston Globe yesterday. It's reproduced below in normal font, commentary on italics.   EVERYWHERE I TURN these days I encounter the term “white male,” almost always used in a pejorative

Anti-Millenial Gloating Achieves Apex

The over-29 Internet contingent is claiming a resounding victory for truth. "See, SEE; I told ya" was the general outcry of every person with a cellphone that recalls having used a payphone out of necessity. "I'm sure those You Tube kids were constantly praised by their parents. Could've used a