Everybody knows drifters = dumpster. Hookers go in ditches. Amateur.

Supporting ethnic cleansing to own the libs, eh?

Hey, I live here too! Petroplex in the house!

Earl Campbell. Dave Parker. Dr. J. Wayne Gretzky. Gen X Representing childhood (and, they they are yes, Boomer) idols.

Once again, you are the one who is thick. The NCAA’s punishing athletes is not a function of interstate commerce. The California legislature is not violating the Commerce Clause in any way, shape, or form. No matter how you try to depict this, the NCAA is not the legislature — only CONGRESS can regulate interstate…

What on earth are you talking about? California is not telling out-of-state institutions what they can and cannot do. They are telling California institutions what they can and cannot do. The Commerce Clause is irrelevant to this discussion no matter how many times you try to insert it here.

California schools can easily say: We plan to stay in our conferences. If you choose to toss us from those conferences, good luck collecting any fees you think we owe. And enjoy it when Washington and Oregon look around and say, yeah, we’re sticking with California. And none of this has a goddamned thing to d with the…

Definitely not airtight. The NCAA is not a legislative body, for one thing. For another this does not kick in until 2023. The “contractual obligation” is nothing of the sort — they are part of an agreement that either side can break; no one is obliged to remain in the NCAA, which is not a governmental body. Suffice it…

Wait, California is interfering with interstate commerce how?!? What “contractual duties”? 

Totally. But enough about Angela. What do you think of the song?

They should be paid for their work (no need to put it in scare quotes) if there is mnarket value for their work. The fact that there are scholarships indicates that there is, but it is a market value intentionally deflated because they cannot negotiate that value beyond the worth of the scholarship and a few other…

Undocumentable: I swear to God, the other day I was going to email Drew to suggest that dried mango snack. I could eat that by the barrelful. Yesterday I looked at the health stats, and I knew they would not be GOOD, but I was shocked that this fruit-crack is empty calories, on the whole likely actively bad for you. 

Funny that athletics gets this much power over something like the band at a school where the athletic department not only doesn’t make a dime, but surely costs millions. It’s not that Columbia can’t use sports as a loss leader with its billions in endowment, but it shows just how petty this whole thing is.

The writing was so lazy — the “Boy George” line was not one that Dylan would ever make. It was a 40-something writer amusing himself, characters (and their ages) be damned.

I did for grad school! (My interjection is apropos of nothing in this conversation that I am not a part of, but Go Bobcats!)

I was driving home overnight from broadcasting a DII college game in Texas and was listening to that game with a certain level of both awe and disdain. Of course the game I called was a 14-8 defensive clash, so 67-63 was more than a bit jarring. Will either UCLA-WSU basketball game this year match that score?

So they are between 2-4 sentences apart?

I have historically been gray (no matter how brilliant, incisive, witty, and HYSTERICAL my contributions) so I don’t think it could have been me. But if so, I have just learned that with great power, etc. etc.

Unless you have hiv and are planning on fucking the entire public, no, you have no “duty” to tell “the public” or “whomever” shit if you have hiv. Yes, you tell partners. No one else is entitled to know a goddamned thing.

Quoting you: “his defense had him in check with exception of that 89 yard play”. That second “him” is either a reference to Beckham or you write English as a second language. Either way, independent of the 89-yard catch-and-run Beckham went 5/72 with a spectacular one-handed catch. That’s not “keeping him in check,”…