Recent content by Joe D Reid

Nasty hamstring, which usually means a fair bit of time off but not something to threaten chunks of next season.

If the season ended tonight, we’d play Toronto for the 8 seed.

Listen, somebody has to list Sunderland, so I will. I'm in sort of an odd position in that over the past five years the rivals (Sunderland and Rangers) of my two main clubs (Newcastle and Celtic) have met with hilarious, prolonged, and public humiliation. This includes the 12-hour multi-season...

It's hard. The average academic qualifications at top-tier schools are so much higher than they were 50 years ago (and there are so many more students vying for seats) that the athletes stick out in a way they might not have back then. But you also don't necessarily want an entire campus of...

For most of them, yes. Apparently 12% of the Stanford undergrad population played a varsity sport. That's like a high-school level of varsity participation. I'm sure the academic folks would rather admit some of the many, many academically elite students who don't get into Stanford in a given...

Yeah, several of these sports have very recently proven embarrassing from an admissions perspective. It’s hard to argue that they’d be better off with these sports than they would giving the money to public school kids with equal grades.

A Washington logo inside a Cowboys logo inside a Raiders logo. Dysfunctional NFL Voltron, unite!

Because so much of his cap hit for the upcoming year will actually fall in 2021, it's hard to set the option. Sure, if he'd be willing to take incredibly low money for another year hooray. But the Pats would be in the same spot with Cam next year that they were with Brady this year, where their...

I mean, there are three major buckets of outcomes here: 1. Cam's permanently broken or worse than Stidham and gets cut during or just after camp. Positives zero; negatives a prorated amount of the veteran minimum, or zero. 2. Cam plays badly and/or the team is bad. He starts N-1 games before...

The issue is that saying "it's not an open mic night" implies that the podcasts go people based on merit. "Hiring family over likely more qualified people because I can do what I want" is the *opposite* of that. That's at best hypocritical; more likely it's because he hasn't actually reflected...

Can someone tell the owners that the chicken has had enough? They really need to put down the chicken. The chicken must be tired at this point.

I question the tactical value of pushing a possible release date into the actual season. This feels like an appeal you lose either way: if you lose, the document comes out, if you win, you've established the document is bad.

That smacks of outside counsel doing everything they can to win the lawsuit without taking into account the P.R. issues associated with making the argument in the first place. C.f. U.S. Soccer in the discrimination lawsuit against the USWNT. It's a fun subset of the Streisand effect.

I don’t want to pile on, but if we’re questioning the legitimacy of part-season championships then we’re saying that 1918 (where games were missed because of the war and the flu) didn’t count. Although I guess it would be funny if Yankees fans spent decades chanting the wrong year at us.