In terms of your second paragraph re: not enough money.

Me either. But maybe it’s because I am a huge pessimist, but I assume that all the millionaire douchebags running the NCAA will also run things in whatever regime replaces them and make themselves even more millions of dollars. Or maybe by then they’ll hand off their jobs to their sons and daughters. Because that’s…

Well, it could delay reporting on a story that could conceivably delay action for a team that could block a championship. For example, say something like what happened at Yale happened at UGA. Months before the tournament or bowl game there are allegations or rumors of a star player doing something that could get them…

No. It would be the death of big time college athletics as national spectacle. There are still many (most) colleges who have small programs that have athletes who actually go to class, play regionally, aren’t seen on TV unless it’s some local access channel, don’t whore their athlete’s feet to shoe companies, etc.…

I took the headline to be throwing his own logic back in his face. In Dabo’s mind he is allowed to benefit lavishly from his hard work. But when athletes, who also work very hard, want to get paid something* he considers it to be an example of how everyone is entitled these days.

I think I saw that same bit on The Big Bang Theory.

No.

Well, practice makes perfect. Maybe soon they’ll get it right.

Absolutely.

Sounds right to me. (And by “right” I mean follows from existing law and the logic of the court cases.)Especially if you don’t know if that person is firing at the first person. It really could escalate quickly. Each threatened person, it seems to me, has the right to defend him or herself. Whoever lives, wins.…

Since we are talking hypothetically about Smith’s wife, it doesn’t matter where she is or what she is doing. If you read the link I provided above, you’ll note that the victim in that case was also sitting in his car. The killer still was given immunity.

Like I posted above. There is precedent for someone getting immunity for killing an innocent bystander because they were “standing their ground.”

I provided a link to an article on this very subject. I added it after my original comment, but the edit appears 5 minutes before your comment.

In some states you are allowed to shoot, even kill, innocent bystanders while defending your ground. If Hayes does convince a DA or Jury he was defending himself, Smith’s wife getting shot might be regrettable, but inevitable collateral damage.

Sometimes some groups of people dominate the news being assholes so completely, we forget other people can be assholes, too. Each person here represents a type of asshole I have met more than my share of. Bully cop versus entitled runner. I hate picking sides, but from all accounts the cop wins this one.

Plus, judging from all the maps people are posting, she only had to stay on the sidewalk a small bit. Maybe an 1/8th to a quarter of a mile? Then should would have been in an area where there were no sidewalks and she could go back in the road. She got bitchy and arrested over that brief patch of sidewalk running.

Again, you are still wrong. The infraction occurred, according to the linked article on Lee Road heading east toward Rickett Road. There is in fact a sidewalk there.

Yes there is. Not where the arrest occurred at Mission and Ricketts, but where the actual infraction occurred which was on Lee Road around the corner.

The video was taking at the site of arrest, not at the site of infraction. According to the linked article the infraction as around the corner on Lee Road. There are sidewalks there.

Irrelevant. The infraction was on Lee Road, not at Mission and Ricketts. Lee road does, in fact, have sidewalks. Mission and Ricketts was where she was arrested. Two different places.