my numbers came from the gov't's site, but the last time i looked, they only had data for 2009. true about the murders numbers though.

Yeah I mean with stats like that we should all ban walking down the street, flying in airplanes, living amongst each other, etc....

I was referring to deaths, not injuries. Considering most accidents happen in close proximity to ones home it is not much of a stretch. Just in my time in HS there were multiple fatal accidents driving to/from school and I have a feeling we weren't the only school to experience similar accidents. Didn't hear any…

And when schools sanction kids swimming in lakes and their own pools, or when voters pass bond initiatives for new swimsuits and tire swings, or when TV stations devote an extra half-hour to the late local news to cover all lakes, pools, etc. action every Friday night, then it will really be a better comparison.

Sudden cardiac arrest is the leading cause of death among young athletes, so actuallya greater amount of kids die playing basketball vs. football. From the National Center for Catastrophic Sport Injury Research, the data shows that there were 28 fatalities between 2003-2007 (no data from 2007 on).

and I would venture that 1,000s if not 10s of 1,000s have died in car accidents.

Rugby does not generally involve players running at full speed straight into one another, it's more about pursuit. In any case, people who pine for the good ol days of no helmets are the people who didn't see skull fractures, broken noses, broken teeth and players dying on the field with alarming regularity. …

I made sure to reacquaint myself with the definition of "cherry-picking" just to be certain that when I called it a misnomer here, it would be a clean call. I don't know what difference a stat line on this would make by throwing an addendum that says "...out of approximately seven million and thirty eight hits…

Disagree. With the limited eligible players, even demanding the applicable "injured" player sit out just a quarter (15 minutes off the game clock, to avoid an a glut of "injuries" to serve as ersatz two-minute warnings in the first and third quarters) would make a team's repetitive efforts to slow a no-huddle nearly…

"It'd be nice if fake injuries didn't happen, but it's unpoliceable."

Make some time for Michael Gehlken's tremendous story of how and why Chargers rookie D.J. Fluker, who first slept in a bed alone at 15, came to buy his family a house of their own. [San Diego Union-Tribune]

That was not a frat party, that was a frat bar off campus. I think it's Cain and Abel's. i am not surprised he was told to gout the fuck out. Go back to that shithole they call College Station and be God. in Austin, you'reyou're just another douche in a pink shirt spending daddy's money.

News to me: Aggies have apparently upgraded (I guess?) from sheep to goats. Look out, chickens, the Poultry Sciences building may be the next hotbed of activity out in the Brazos Valley.

The Blindsided

RIP Bruce Banner

Ok in Cowboys Stadium's defense, it's the hottest time of the year in Dallas. Like, right now until the end of August, Texas generally gets blasted with triple digit weather on the daily. So grass is brown, all of it.

You'd think that the Cowboys would've fertilized the field sufficiently over the past several years.

Well, on the plus side, the cops finally had an opportunity to show off the stash seized from notorious drug dealer Oscar "the Grouch" Cortez.

Fortunately the Nigerian Football Federation is exactly like the NCAA.

As the father and sometime coach of an 11-year-old boy who loves baseball and plays much of the year now, this sort of thing is just a dagger in my soul. You know horrible accidents like this happen, but you try not to think about it. Something like this can happen under all sorts of circumstances, but I can't help…