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I can't think of anyone who would be more embarrassed by Tucker Carlson's existence than W.F. Buckley.

Looks like he hit a left hander there.

Willi should go cold soon enough.

Sure - there is level at which 'truth' is not really an operative concept for a sociopath. Doesn't excuse it, but from his perspective he is just saying what is right, because what makes a thing right is that it is in his interest. There is no standard outside of that one.

Well, it's like you said: You didn't think a Republican could actually make something up out of whole cloth all by themselves did you? If it's not pure projection they had to have seen it somewhere.

but they only care about that if it can be translated to $$ or something like academic ranking that they can in turn monetize. Obviously to the degree they can remain in control of the process the schools are going to do what they can to protect the benefit of football to revenue, but things are so wide open there are no guarantees they might not blow it for some short term high with bad long term outcomes. There will also probably have to be separate orgs now for football, basketball and then all the rest as the economic systems in each are going to be different.

Scherzer took himself out last night - looked like left groin or oblique grabbed on a pitch.

That is an important point. If players or sponsors start competing for donor funds directly to NIL pools, then the University's interest in the endeavor becomes questionable. Right now it certainly seems like the least likely outcome, but you can at least envision an evolution of more or less minor league effectively at arm's reach from the U that plays in the University stadium Saturday while the university has a non-scholarship student team playing other schools there on Friday nights..... In the current system, a school like UM clears enough after expenses to use revenue sports income for non-revenue sports and student recreation facilities, plus whatever cachet the football program adds to general donations, which they probably have some idea about. If whatever new system evolves does't result in at least that much revenue to the institution, it will be a problem.

I normally wouldn't look at the staff in terms of initial injuries because to a large degree a lot of guys do their own programs anyway, but Reyes, Mize and now Manning going backward on rehabs doesn't seen right. Are they shutting people down TOO completely and losing tone in other muscle groups? A guy just shouldn't strain his right quad immediately after rehabbing his left. I guess we have to wait and see what Manning's newest problem is to be more depressed.

I..G.I.V.E..U.P!

The fact that NIL could end up keeping top players in college is a really good observation. It will improve the quality of play in the college game, and the NFL did fine in the days before kids left school early, so the delay in accessing players is not a problem, but it will be interesting how it plays out when college players with big NIL deals end up drafted at slots paying way less than their deals. Will their sponsors be willing to keep them on the doll as pros? I imagine in some cases maybe. I'm still curious to where the institutions see themselves fitting in all this. You will have big corps/boosters paying the NIL tab for players that are going to come and make up maybe 20% of a team made up of semi 'regular' students? It's gonna be pretty strange. The players being paid are pros so why not drop the pretense, drop enrollment requirements and just become hiring coordinators between players, their sponsors and their coaching staff? "we have the venue but everything else is up to you.(whoever 'you' ends up being)"

Gave blood last week and the antibody test was positive. Getting boosted at the end of May for a cruise in July.

If you have stocks that survive a correction at a 6% loss count yourself lucky.

We bemoan how terrible the choices were in 2016, but in 2000 they were both a couple of nut-balls as well. I'd like to believe that had he been elected, Al Gore's name wouldn't be just as much a punch line today as Shrub's is, but I wouldn't have put any money on it.

There is belief, and then there are churches. Organized churches are collections of people and they are prone to every failing of people in all their other endeavors, which means that most organized churches become bastions of profit, self-preservation and parishioner control in service of the 1st two. In the end, this ends up having little to do with Christianity, or whatever other belief they represent, but a lot to do with the normal state of humanity.

agreed. I posted this before, but I think the safest bet is to look at potential markets, and the guide there is were the pros already are. I figure one strong NCAA (or whatever they call themselves after re-org) program in each market big enough to support pro teams, and maybe a few high legacy outliers like ND.

this really the key. Maybe because of racism, or maybe just because they are cheap, the South lags economically mostly because it lags educationally (& health wise). Sure, established enterprises with cheap labor needs may move there, but those businesses were created in more economically dynamic areas of country where education produces a more economically dynamic population.

The key is to get them to just give it to you, you know, in payment.....

you be gammaticatin'!

My didn't we wake up on the Sunny Side of the bed today! I agree they are in a total mess right now, but I think the odds of the resolution of that mess being in the best interests of all are about equal to UM taking the next 9 of 10 from OSU.

Calgary puck pursuit completely negates 2 Oiler PPs. Back in the day you'd try to beat the energy out of a team like the flames by taking it hard to their bodies and get them looking over their shoulders, but with the speed of the game now you don't have teams that can do much of that, at least not team's good enough to make the playoffs.

8-6 red

You know he is still Teeter's boss. He stays in FLA now and runs the training staffs across the system.

"Market economy" is just range of idealizations of a whole universe of economic activity. Like any intellectual construct, never fully maps reality - it captures some of it, and misses some of it.