Christopher R Davis

I can tell you this. The Supreme Court will not "ultimately decide" this question. We, the people will ultimately decide it, just as the Court did not ultimately decide on the question of slavery in the Dred Scott case.

Lane Kiffin had a real chance to change has image, to demonstrate loyalty and commitment. All he had to do was, in the words of Darrell Royal, "dance with the one that brought you."

Instead, he's decided to show he's the money- and fame-chasing opportunist we always thought he was.

Lane Kiffin had a real chance to change has image, to demonstrate loyalty and commitment. All he had to do was, in the words of Darrell Royal, "dance with the one that brought you."

Instead, he's decided to show he's the money- and fame-chasing opportunist we always thought he was.

ESPN website this AM: First stories covered CFB, 2nd the NFL, and the 3rd focused on professional wrestling.(???)

Sports journalism is in a terrible state and ESPN is a big part of the problems, but they should at least recognize that the WWE (with scripted outcomes) doesn't qualify as sport.

Hard, good reading by Jeet Heer

www.thenation.com/article/soci...

3. And perhaps most fundamental of all, it changes the basic power dynamic between programs and players. The one-year scholarship instituted by the NCAA in 1972 gave coaches and programs complete control and now college athletes have almost complete free agency.
3/3

2. More importantly, it finally allows the athletes critical to the industry's product to break the NCAA and its member universities' monopoly and join in on the massive revenues produced by the college sports industry.
2/

Say what you will about the new pay-for-play era in college sports, but
1. It certainly has elevated competition as more and more schools field strong teams despite fears that the opposite would happen.
1/

I was born in TX and have lived large parts of my life in TX. Moving to places outside of TX, I always took a lot of flack about being a Texan, but until now I've never been embarrassed to be a Texan.

We are a huge diverse state; Texas, we must do better.

I was born in TX and have lived large parts of my life in TX. Moving to places outside of TX, I always took a lot of flack about being a Texan, but until now I've never been embarrassed to be a Texan.

We are a huge diverse state. Texas we must do better.

Low-skilled labor does the really hard work; that's the huge benefit for all of us.

Low-skilled labor does the really hard work; that's the huge benefit for all of us.

Low-skilled labor does the really hard work; that's the huge benefit for all of us.

I'm glad to hear this. I find it ironic, however, that we already started to address the problem with President Obama's ACA and that his party has done, and is doing, everything in its power to destroy it and cripple healthcare for average working Americans.

In the 90s, I always thought we shouldn't gloat so much about winning the Cold War. Putin and Russia play the long game, many American leaders can't focus on anything past next quarter's earnings. We need more long-term vision, remaining leaders of the world demands it.

As does almost everything he's done in office. As many have pointed out, if you hatched a plan to take the US down internationally it would closely resemble his Weaken America agenda.

Not only does it show how unpopular it is, but also how undemocratic their overall agenda is.

The responsibility to govern lies with the party in power. It doesn't matter what Democrats do. The shutdown is necessarily the fault of the Republicans because they are in power, they hold the majority, and it's their job to fix this.

Agreed. And on the issues there are clear differences between the two.

So true and important to state. The problem I see is that the GOP just lies and lies and tells more lies about reality. They've done it for so long that a good quarter of the country automatically assumes Dems are at fault for everything and even more believe it's just "both sides."

People not having enough food to eat isn't a reflection of their personal behavior and discipline (or least they are as badly behaved as the rich are) it's a reflection of a country and an economy that isn't meeting the needs of many of its people.

I humbly disagree. Education gave me the context and taught me how to think. Memorization is the lowest level of education. There are many other things that are important for sure (street smarts, hard work, luck, a rich daddy) but a quality education makes people more difficult to brainwash.

Sounds to me like another age-old example of the older generation not connecting with the younger generation. And why even bring Obama's name into the discussion.

Many liberals and leftists at least at times try to call it out. Conservatives don't. Hard to find many on the right who say Iraq was a good idea now, but in 2003 they all supported the invasion.

Disassociative claimance seems to me to be a characteristic of governmental leadership in general, whether conservative, liberal, socialist, anarchist, or any other.

And in my experience anybody who spends a lot of time telling everybody how tough they are usually isn't all that tough.

The Iraq war was launched by conservative Republicans. It's true that many moderately liberal Democrats voted for it, but large segments of the liberal left strongly opposed it.

Very true. My big fear though is that fascists don't give up easily. The last time fascism advanced this far 60-80 million people were killed and a lot of European and Asian cities were burned to the ground before fascism was finally defeated.

If they offer enough $$$ to host, I wouldn't be surprised. At least professionalism is out in the open now and many poor and working class families get a cut. But I do wonder if the pursuit of profit above all else is a sustainable, long-term strategy for big-time college sports (& the pros too).