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  1. moly99

    NHL asks Marchand to stop licking people

    I was on the other end of things and gave a guy a concussion in high school basketball after he yanked my sack earlier in the game. I regret it now. But I also have to say that doing this stuff risks an arms race of bad behavior. The victim has to choose between being intimidated or retaliating.
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    USMNT: Watching From Outside The Arena

    EDIT: double post. Not sure what happened.
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    Jaylen or Tatum?

    I just don't understand the point of these Kyrie vs Davis or Tatum vs Jaylen hypothetical debates. It's like arguing whether you would rather find life on Mars or Titan. It's not a choice we either have the option of making or have any need to make. If the Pelicans decide they can't build a...
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    NBA coaching changes

    I know this is the argumentative equivalent of willingly walking into quicksand, but . . . No. I have a female cousin who played college ball and have been forced to attend a lot of university and WNBA games. Forget all of the BS about dunking; you can play great basketball without ever...
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    Jurassic World 3: Where the Dinosaurs have Quad Injuries and Hate Their Shoe Deals

    It is so strange that GM's have such a huge liquidity bias that they are willing to throw away good assets to clear out cap space . . . and yet they are willing to sacrifice that liquidity on fungible guys like Bayless. I can only assume that this is the result of politics as star players and...
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    2018 NBA Draft Lottery

    It is worth noting that the original argument for the draft (to let small markets compete) has been somewhat negated by both the salary cap and the globalization of media and marketing. A blind auction system should work better for new players entering the league rather than "regular" free...
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    NBA coaching changes

    The flip side of this is that the Raptors roster has those flaws built-in. In a seven game series teams need two way players who are flexible enough to take advantage of the weaknesses of opposing players and to make it hard for the other team to create dangerous mismatches. Lowry and DeRozan...
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    MLS 2018: More Barco Than Bite

    Wayne Rooney has apparently agreed to join DC United this summer. http://www.espn.com/soccer/soccer-transfers/story/3491946/evertons-wayne-rooney-agrees-to-deal-in-principle-to-join-dc-united-sources I know it's heresy, but I really think it would have been better for the Sounders if Dempsey...
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    2018 NBA Draft Lottery

    It isn't what I think that matters, but what the idiot Kings organization thinks. Is Vivek crazy enough to trade a top 3 pick just to pull the Kings into playoff contention for a couple of years? This is an owner who thought cherry picking would work at the NBA level, so I am afraid the answer...
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    2018 NBA Draft Lottery

    Should we be rooting for the Kings to land a top 3 pick or not? I am not certain as it is so hard to predict what Vivek will do with that team. On paper it should be great for the Celtics if the Kings land a top 3 pick as Sacramento could finish tearing down their roster and rebuild around that...
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    Jurassic World 3: Where the Dinosaurs have Quad Injuries and Hate Their Shoe Deals

    I am not a MD or anatomist, but it seems very weird to me that they can't confirm if it is ossification. AFAIK it ought to be fairly obvious on an MRI. https://radiopaedia.org/articles/myositis-ossificans-1
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    MLS 2018: More Barco Than Bite

    MLS gets a bit closer every year. It's not as if Toronto making the finals were a fluke; obviously the Red Bulls made the semis and Seattle was also in the quarterfinals. MLS and Liga MX is at least competitive now even if Liga MX still holds an edge. I think one issue attracting unfair...
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    NBA playoffs 2018

    You can't blame players for how the refs calls fouls (or non-fouls.) Blame the league. The only way to solve this is to review each game and suspend players for one game for each egregious flop, and punish players for intentionally creating contact: perhaps make it count as a charge. The NBA...
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    NBA playoffs 2018

    Reddick is a master at finding space on offense, though. It's not like nobody in the NBA has ever thought of defending him tightly. warning: rant ahead It always amazes me that people think that pro athletes who lose are simply not giving enough effort and allowing themselves to lose. Most...
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    Kyrie Irving: Hardwood Magician

    Kind of off topic, but it's amazing to me that there are people who have a patella with two parts (a bipartite patella) who never know it or experience any pain. Meanwhile my patella is still angry with me about the summer in college I worked as a roofer after ten years. Sesamoid bones are weird.
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    2017-18 NBA Regular Season Game/Observation Thread

    It's worth pointing out that the Thunder née Sonics were deliberately tanking by playing Durant out of position at shooting guard and giving him too many shots, and ended up with Russell Westbrook for their (lack of) effort. Thank the basketball gods there are 5-6 teams this year that are even...
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    MLS 2018: More Barco Than Bite

    This seems like another Steven Gerrard signing for LA where they have targeted a superstar player for his profile rather than his fit with the team. Schweinsteiger has been great for Chicago, though, and that was a similar "acquire a legendary player and worry about the fit later" signing.
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    MLS 2018: More Barco Than Bite

    South Korean Kim Kee-Hee has three fouls in six minutes leading to a Chivas goal off a free kick. It would be disappointing to lose thanks in part to Chivas concussing two guys and using crafty play to take advantage of Kee-Hee, but that's CONCACAF.
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    MLS 2018: More Barco Than Bite

    Seattle has two quasi-DP's as midfield backups in Gustav Svenson and Magnus Wolff Eikrem. After the CSL changed it rules on international players, their Chinese teams bought them out and they signed in Seattle with TAM. But they are both DP-level crafty European players. I also don't think...
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    MLS 2018: More Barco Than Bite

    Wow. With Chivas in very poor form both on-field and off and down 0-1 in the first leg in Seattle, there's a realistic chance that MLS will go 3-0 vs Liga MX teams in this round.
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