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Alright, on the one hand that just screams "DO NOT WANT" as loud as you possibly could...but then the evidence presented by the detective sounds like the kind of complaining my grandmother does about "those people." I'm assuming that the really good [expletive] isn't going to be revealed in an ongoing investigation, and the Eagles' actions seems to speak volumes, but damn, that was weak so far. Yeah, all the "evidence" alluded to just seemed like #whitepeoplefear

http://deadspin.com/eagles-cut-desean-jackson-amid-claims-of-gang-ties-1553730474

They'll just buy him an international airport.

Gee what an edgy #hotsportstake

Ya ok dude i was only 2 when that happened but my guess is that 190lbs Rodman from the late 80s would have had some problems with prime Shaq in the low block. George Mikan was a good player, but he could never have checked Tim Duncan amirite?

Please let the next argument be "count the rings"...

Yeah, that roster beats the [expletive] out of a Euro best XI of ours. I also like how Gil and Yedlin are getting the Michael Bradley 2006 treatment and coming along for these games.

Every year they start bright and then the same guys get hurt and then they fade and it culminates with some sort of spectacular own goal and an elimination in the R16 of CL. I'm certain there's got to be someone there that sees this and says "hmm, gee, maybe we should improve the squad depth and not count on Walcott and Wilshire to stay healthy like they've never been able to do". Also...how the hell is Manchester United trotting out a CM combo of Cleverley and Fellaini? The latter is just not any good. I feel sorry for Cleverley for getting thrown in at a level clearly a couple steps above him.

No, I agree; it's an non-quantifiable thing. How does anyone know how "American" any of these guys feel? Guys like Johannsson and Chandler seem to have made business decisions (at least Johannsson shows up), but guys like FJ and Jones sure seem all-in. I dunno. It's very weird to think that potentially over half our XI at the start of next cycle could be guys that never really lived here stateside. That would be pretty different. ETA: Perhaps its less FIFA's rule that needs altering, and the citizenship rules for the US that need changing/updating. Not to restrict guys like AJ and FJ and Jones, but to allow for the Fagundez's and Nagbe's to play for us.

Yeah, AJ is an American only by virtue of the fact his family happened to be in Alabama when he was born. When his father's contract ended, they went back to Iceland. He then spent 1 year of high school in FL later, graduating there, before going back to Iceland. So at least he spent some time here culturally. Green was born in Tampa, but similarly hasn't spent a lot of time in the states. He has a parent that's an American citizen, though, so culturally he's got that going for him. Chandler and Johnson both have similar stories, except that they were born in Germany and they have American fathers. Neither has spent any real time stateside. Jones actually has a house here, if I recall correctly. One final example of how the current rule could be applied in a sketchy way would be Brede Hangeland, who happened to be born in Houston to Norwegian citizens working for an oil company and left the country right after he turned 1, and never spent any time living here other than that. He could have, however, chosen to play for the US as he's technically a citizen by birth. One way the current rule hurts potential players would be the case of Diego Fagundez, who came here when he was 3, and has spent his entire life after that living in New England, but because his parents never became permanent citizens, his citizenship process would take 4 years or so. Ditto Nagbe. Both of those guy are more "American" than Johannsson culturally, and less American technically since both Fagundez's parents are Uruguayan. Yet neither guy is eligible at this point to play for the US despite being fully developed here, and having lived here for 15+ years. None of these guys can reasonably be credited to the US development system; they're all products of European youth/cliub development. Preston Zimmerman's idiot xenophobia aside, there's a very good debate somewhere in there as to whether or not the rule as-is should be altered.

Feel bad for Wichita. They are too good to be remembered as a mid major that got eliminated in the first weekend. This is what the committee wanted by loading this bracket. Yep. The committee set them up to fail, and its [expletive]. The officiating in that game was....not good.

I've been trying to come up with a Harvard/Insufferable assholes in the crowd joke for 5 minutes now and I've got nothing. I must be tired. But it was nice for MSU to let them take the lead for approximately 4 seconds there.

That suspension is complete [expletive].

To be fair to Sturridge, United could have given up 5 penalties today. The dive wasn't great, but Vidic could have easily been carded anyway for getting in his face like a psychopath.

Yeah, Pappa and Neagle are useless. They give the ball away constantly. But Clint was in open spots in the 18 like 4 times, and they missed him each time. Bradley was stroooooong. That was a very entertaining game. Love this league.

What the [expletive] is that [expletive] thing? There's no way that's the actual away kit. Maybe its a training top.

That's the 4th crossbar hit in Dempsey's last 3 MLS games dating back to last year's home leg against PTFC.

MLS Opening Day. Awesome. Maybe the terrible Fire won't be as terrible this season. I like Joya and Shipp a lot; hopefully Yallop plays the kids instead of the usual "only 2 skill guys allowed on the field at once" thing.

I would have gone Lilly/Harden/Dempster/Lilly/Harden. But that's just me.

I don't strongly disagree (the best way would've been for us to win a damn game) but I don't think I would've started him over anyone who actually started. Were they gonna go 3 man or 4 man in that series? I think he was set to pitch game 4, but I would have had him pitch game 1.

Ted Lilly is a great man, and the fact that he's back in all our lives is a treasure. Its still [expletive] that he didn't pitch against LA in 2008.

All our pitching prospects are about to get invaluable lessons in fear.

So the Ukraine game is cancelled, in what has to be the least shocking thing ever.

He was able to jog off the field right after his last knee rupture; I don't know that that's indicative of anything.

Apparently the kit has white shorts that have a red stripe down the side.