I don’t get the sense that they got a report telling it to do one thing and they did the other. My sense is that the investigating team didn’t have consensus, that there was a dissenting view from at least one member of the team, and the NFL chose one path and tried to silence the opposing view

...the NFL wanted to punish him and went looking for evidence to do so instead of looking at the facts and coming to conclusions afterward.

I’ll never understand why they chose to focus on this one incident and all its attendant problems rather than Big Ben him for a series of idiotic behavior. Except that Goodell legit sucks at this. Hire a former judge or prosecutor to manage punishments and stick to bilking cities on stadium deals.

Thompson also has George covered in the Neither of My Legs Have Been Smashed Into Pieces department.

Boy do I love all you Hinkie truthers. Never stop.

I love when idiots say Kaepernick is doing this for attention and to build his Brand. Ah yes that brilliant long game when you disappear from the spotlight and only appear sporadically to do charitable things and give back to the community! I totally see it! Kaeps totally an attention whore!

This is the most ruthless basketball move since Magic Johnson traded Vlade for John Salley during halftime of the 1992 Rock n Jock game.

“Smug Liberal Bastard” who uses the term “Mayhaps”...please kill me.

Don’t get suckered in by kicking the can on the police brutality issue to “Congress and legislators.” It’s not a legislation issue. There wasn’t anything wrong with the laws that Michael Slager was tried under. It’s not legislation that prevents most abusive police from ever being written up, much less brought up on…

Our Chancellor gave himself a raise of almost $75,000 last year while none of the faculty or staff has had even a cost of living adjustment in roughly 8 years.

Hi! Adjunct professor here. I make $75 hourly since I’m near the top of the range. I am permitted only 6 hours teaching weekly and 1 hour advising students. I cannot accept more hours, but often I will be offered less.

I am not paid at all for grading papers, attending required training, or meeting with students…

Universities have been steadily increasing the number of classes taught by “part-time” adjunct instructors instead of hiring more tenure-track professors for decades. Yet in that time, tuition has gone up dramatically.

First things first: public and private universities should be up front about where all that tuition money is going. Hint: it’s not to the faculty.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/nathanlewis/2017/02/17/u-s-colleges-where-does-the-money-go/#36f1dc5b73ca

What if that number was 10+? 2+?

Megatron saying “we were never going to win anything and I don’t think it makes sense for me to ruin the rest of my life over it” is one of the best and strongest “football is dumb, stop playing it” arguments made lately. More players from teams without a real shot should be going “yeah, I’ve made some millions, time…

There’s a case to be made that they handled it wrong. There were three ways it could have played out:

i hate that expression with the burning white hot hatred of a thousand suns. it was stupid and incorrect when first stated, now a millions times over. plus its trite, hackneyed and lazy. fuck i hate it