Prof. Don Taylor of Duke thinks the purely amateur nature of college sports is now dead, due to a ruling by a U.S. District Judge.
Scott Lemieux has always been more forgiving of cheaters like A-Rod and Barry Bonds than I am, but he’s always had a strong argument. And, he’s right. Perfomance-enhancing drugs don’t work unless you also work out like a maniac. You can’t just take a pill and magically hit a 97 mph fastball out of the park.
Given that the New York Football Giants are 3-0 in the preseason despite their first-team offense looking like a Pop Warner club, I’m thinking that the front office has assembled a team of remarkable depth with under-average starting talent. Sad to say that, at this point in his career, I think this includes Eli Manning.
Attorney General Eric Holder orders the (I think) third autopsy on Michael Brown. I wonder if we’ll ever get to compare the results.
Georgetown Professor Michael Eric Dyson thinks that the president has do more to explain to white people what it’s like to fear that the police will kill your child.
If you loved Wendell Pierce in The Wire and Treme, as I did, you should consider following him on Twitter. He’s a smart dude.
Here’s Simone Felice doing Don’t Wake the Scarecrow:
What’s on your mind?
Do you remember when the 2008 Detroit Lions went 4-0 in the regular season?
And by regular season, I mean preseason.
Somewhere in the depths of my memory I remember there being some unmerited hope for the Lions.
I roll my eyes whenever you say that phrase football giants, heh.
In Oakland at the moment, demonstrators and the ILWU are setting up pickets to block and Israeli container ship from being unloaded as part of the Boycott-Divest-Sanctions movement.
Too bad they are not boycotting Saudi oil and arms shipments.
Well, shite:
they attacked citizens at 9:00 pm
“Attorney General Eric Holder orders the (I think) third autopsy on Michael Brown. I wonder if we’ll ever get to compare the results.”
They’ll keep doing autopsies until they find all the bullets. Could take a while.
The family’s private autopsy has been released:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/us/michael-brown-autopsy-shows-he-was-shot-at-least-6-times.html
Had a beautiful hike around Rainier with my wife and son today. Only black mark was a teenager open-carrying a fairly high caliber handgun in the grocery store. It’s easy to tolerate open carry when it’s academic, but when you’re confronted by it, everything changes. Openly carrying a weapon is an implicit threat to anyone who doesn’t know you, and probably more than few people who do. Good guys with guns my ass.
My grandson lives in eyeshot of Rainier. It bothers me too.
Teenagers can carry firearms without adult supervision in Washington?
Of course, they do it in Chicago too, only it’s not legal. Turned off the news this morning as they recounted last night’s shootings in Oak Lawn and Lawndale.
The citizens of Ferguson riot over one shooting. The only question here is how many innocent teenagers were shot by gangs over the weekend. Usually double digit in summer.
Glad to see the bit about the NCAA decision. Yes, the decision itself is pretty pro-NCAA, but the bigger move is that the athletes are entitled to something more than just a scholarship.