And sadly kids like this are the ones that go unnoticed because of the few bad apples that spoil it. So much negative attention gets heaped on the “bad” student athletes or the “unprepared” student athletes that the success stories can get drowned out. This kid broke my heart. He had gone his whole life without ever…

That story right there is why I still support athletics in college. Yes, there are a lot of kids who coast, but kids like the one you speak of would have *never* gotten an opportunity like that without athletics.

This year, I had five football players ask me to adjust their grades after the semester or to let them to extra/makeup work after the semester had ended so that they could bump a D to a C, or an F to a D. I said no to all five, and a few expressed astonishment. Clearly, they’re getting special treatment from some…

This absolutely mirrors my experience with revenue sport athletes at a I-AA school. Occasionally their handlers get involved, though I’ve never had anyone put any kind of pressure on me to provide special treatment — it just turns into an extra meeting with the handler there to repeat what I say and give the student…

As far as Calvins on Sunday, he is only second to Hobbes for bringing a paper tiger to life.

I feel like I’m in a sort of unique position—I’m a former NCAA DI coach who now teaches at a large state school. Man, I love having athletes in my classes, so it always makes me sad/frustrated when athletes express this idea that they think all faculty are against them. Many faculty truly enjoy university athletics…

This goes on at every university with a major football program. Few programs are self sustainable so the academic side subsidizes the athletic dept. When incidents like these happen, the question is always, is the investment worth it? The cost to pay a football coaches salary could endow many faculty positions or…

If only there was some kind of convenient bed Murphy could have used.

When reached for comment, the curator said “that’s going to be a pane in the glass to fix.”

I worked a job which the executive board tanked the company and I lost my house, car, and savings. So what mistake did I make? Or when my wife was DX’d with an autoimmune disease which basically meant that all extra savings went to medical bills. Where is the mistake? Or my daughter’s arthritis, autism, epilepsy?…

It’s shocking that “loyalty” turned out to be a one-way street here.

I went through the same thing with BOA back in the day. They did that thing where they posted my debits before my credit to make me overdraft. Spiraled into hundreds of dollars of overdraft fees. Luckily, I got most of them waived. It took staying on the phone with them for at least an hour and insisting on it.

I find it absolutely disgusting that a 38 year old, adult man would have a soul patch like that.
Delete your facial hair, sir.

KD went full McVeigh on OKC.

Someone a little more explosive than Kevin Durant put OKC on the map. I hate myself

Trader*

Like the falling of the Berlin Wall, or the first man landing on the Moon, we will all remember where we were the day the BasedGod lifted his curse.

It’s opposite writing. Great writing tells you what happens and lets you infer how people feel. These examples tell you exactly how you should feel and forces you to guess what happened. The writers know they’re only supposed to do one of the two things but they keep guessing incorrectly.

I spent the last few weeks thinking of a tree that we used to have in the backyard of our old house. All those hours I spent under that tree looking up as the sunlight dripped like honey through the leaves. When the thin cold wire of time wasn’t pressing pushing tight against my neck. There was time back then. There’s…