I think courts would certainly be open to reevaluating the application of “baseball rule” if the league recommends new safety standards. Especially if the majority of ball parks end up implementing new standards and someone gets hurt at one of the outliers.

But Blood Meridian did end with the judge and the kid sharing a hug...

He’s ignoring the rules of the road for his own convenience. That’s douchey.

It’s all murky new media stuff. I like books.

Both reports have an extra comma in the first paragraph, which is not ironclad evidence that Schefter copied and pasted the report outright, but it strongly suggests that is the case.

Good point. These other examples trouble me as well, but I don’t watch cycling or NASCAR, so I hadn’t really considered them. But as I said before, I have been complaining about the DoD’s endorsement of the NFL for a while now and I’m glad congress is doing something about it. I’m generally extremely cynical of…

Thank you.

I think ethics are at the root of this move by congress. Cutting the purse strings is just the easiest way for them to put the kibosh on it.

Nobody is saying it’s wrong for the NFL to charge for it. They’re saying it’s a waste of money for the DoD to pay for it.