Archive for Sports
Broadway Tim
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I stumbled across this by Heather Wilhelm. She says, “It’s a funny thing these days; you say old-fashioned things, you get called a provocateur.”
She was reviewing a book called Girl Land.
Love of the Game
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In the wake of a scandal involving trinkets, tattoos, and summer jobs, Ohio State hired a new football coach – for $26 mil over six years. Problem solved.
Penn State Investigation
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After busting Ohio State for trading trinkets for tattoos, the NCAA has decided it should have a look at possible pedophile perversion at Penn State.
The Night They Tore the Lampposts Down
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A ten year old boy was raped and students rioted…because coach Paterno was fired. In a show of balance, they held a candlelight vigil for the victims on Friday. Nothing was burned down.
As I type this I’m watching the Nebraska and Penn State teams gather in prayer before the start of Saturday’s game.
I thought this column by the Washington Post’s Tom Boswell was best.
NBA Class Warfare
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The NBA millionaires want the billionaires to pay their fair share – to them. That would be 52.5% of revenues, which is actually less than the 57% they get now. The owners are holding out for a 50-50 split. Meanwhile the ushers, beer, and nacho sellers are stuck with 100% of nothing.
NCAA Gone Wild
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Only the NCAA could make you feel sorry for today’s self-centered elite athletes.
The self-centered ruling body of college sports made a late hit on Ohio State wide receiver DeVier Posey by adding 5 more games to an earlier suspension for trading trinkets for tattoos. The latest suspension was for earning $728 “too much” at his summer job.
Taylor Branch has a great piece in the Atlantic that shows how the NCAA wormed its way into a position to conspire with big-time college coaches, athletic directors, and presidents to deny so-called “student athletes” their property rights to the share of the wealth they help generate.
Rebuttal
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Nancy Pelosi is offended that Republicans won’t tear themselves away from the game tonight to complain about Obama’s speech.
The President’s Speech
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It’s settled. The president’s latest big jobs speech will not be ignored in favor of the Republican debate on Wednesday. It will be ignored in favor of the NFL opener between the Packers and the Saints on Thursday.
Tea Party version 1.1
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Aside from being jihadists, hostage takers, and terrorists, some say that the Tea Party version 1.1 (version 1.0 was racist) has no interest in governing.