Snowboarding is risky for professional snowboarders, just look at Mark McMorris. Don't know the last full season he's had without hitting himself

Doing any sport with a greater risk of injury days leading up to your actual sport seems foolish, and I would imagine violates most athletes contracts.

Hes not right either though. Just because it could be manslaughter in his state doesn't mean it is in Georgia.

I don't think a draft eligible athlete would get a pass on something as big as manslaughter. If anything he would be charged, but then charges dropped as part of a plea, much like Dany Heatley.

It's not really working because it's clear how much money they're throwing around. If we didn't know about some of the top golfers being paid 9 figures to join it'd be a different story. And the corruption within FIFA isn't exactly a secret anymore either.

When Russia hosted the Olympics the story became the games for a period and the Crimea story was put on the back burner. Russia waiting to invade Ukraine until after the Beijing games was likely orchestrated as well.

It doesn't work on everyone, but most people really only follow major news cycles. And when a sporting event is big enough it'll tend to dominate the news and the other things about that country becomes a footnote.

The people that do actively care about those issues won't be fooled. The ones who passively care will be easily distracted.

If they really wanted to diversify their interests why not build up grass roots programs and be competitive before trying to invite the world?

LIV in Roman numerals, so 54, number of holes they play and the score you'd get if you birdie every hole on a par-72 course, seems silly.

The Saudis are paying to try and "sport wash" their culture and try to have people forget their atrocities. Same reason the World Cup was in Qatar.

And at this point he's just gearing up for majors too, so him not really in the mix isn't exactly him "struggling."

He will win at least one more major.

I think MLS ever wants to compete with leagues around the world, in viewers and drawing international talent, they need to adopt a similar format to European leagues and scrap the playoffs.

But that's true about pretty much any church, Catholicism just happens to be the biggest.

Theres always going to be a few who flaunt their wealth after death.

Im not sure what you mean by the Catholic Church missing the boat in this context, can you elaborate?

Again, completely irrelevant to this post, but I don't think you get that.

Yes, but why even bring up the WNBA?

Attendance also affects beer sales, but Im not about to bring that up for no reason.

WNBA living rent free in your head?

Like why is that remotely relevant to this post?

Santa was depicted in all sorts of colours, so while Coke may not have been the first, because of their marketing reach they're the reason why the red/white suit became Santa's suit globally.

This definitely is not it, saying that as someone who grew up Catholic.

Even if the colours were tied to Jesus, why would the symbolism represent his death when the season is about his birth?

Some basic critical thinking proves your theory wrong.

Coca-Cola is attributed to the red/white Santa suit, not red and green being the defacto Christmas colours. That article says that too.

Probably reporting at most 10% of the actual losses.

Or its 400-500 Qataris that died, the other thousands were all migrant worker slaves and don't count in their views.

Reading this I thought you were wrong about Oceania because I believed I saw Australia playing in the World Cup.

Looked it up and they're part of the AFC, how does Australia qualify as part of the Asian federation? I get they switched to it, but I don't get why that's just allowed.

Yep, you're right, guess I thought it was Tyrion because he had more disdain for Joffrey. It's been a while.

I don't consider one recognizable version of a song the epitome of Christmas time, pretty sure most people would agree.

Tyrion Twyin Lannister quote seems to be fitting: "Any [woman] who must say 'I am the [Queen]' is no true [Queen]"