Patrick Donohue

From Wired:

Major league athletes are rewarded for talent, toughness, and single-minded dedication. Major league team owners, on the other hand, are rewarded for mediocrity. Having bought their way into a league, lackadaisical owners can extort hundreds of millions of dollars from their hometowns (and charge exorbitant ticket prices) under threat of decamping for another city. They can allow wretched teams to languish year after year and pocket the league’s revenue-sharing money rather than invest it in talent, knowing that when they’re ready to sell, a scrum of millionaire suitors will materialize.

thedailywhat:

Girl Gone Wild of the Day: UNM junior defender Elizabeth Lambert was suspended indefinitely from soccer and civility following the most unsportladylike conduct I have ever seen in my entire life.

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This girl must be dismissed from the team. I’m not going to get crazy and start calling for criminal charges to be pressed in connection with something that happens on a soccer field, however, the punishment must be swift and severe. This kind of behavior isn’t just unsportsmanlike, it’s thuggish.