Whoa there. Not every free market policy is supply side. Many mainstream economists have pointed out the benefits of growth-enhancing policies like *smart* deregulation and incentive-compatible taxation without embracing the ridiculous and empirically disproved idea that cutting taxes on income (personal or corporate)…

Bingo. Clinton wing of the DNC is no friend of labor or the working class

And yet the Democratic Party have also been cheerleaders for neoliberalism.

Christ, the mental hoops people are jumping through. The IOC should look into adding it as an event for the next Summer Olympics.

My friend’s mother made a “What an ass” FB post, and garnered this response:

Well Spanos did attend the Midvale school for the gifted

+1 bummer of a birthmark Hal

Reminds me of this:

When did people start pushing this narrative that sports are popular because it is “an escape from the real world”?

That is the theoretical maximum based on the charges. To find the actual recommended sentence you’d have to go to the Sentencing Guidelines and do some calculations. And need more information than we have right now. The actual sentence he’s facing is far, far less than 80 years, even if he doesn’t cooperate at all.…

More like “a conscious uncoupling from the program,” amirite?

80 years in federal prison for bribing basketball players to go play in certain colors, under certain brands. I get that that would be the maximum if he failed to cooperate, but that’s a sensationalist sentence. There’s no way a judge would ever give consecutive sentencing totaling 80 years for this. That’s 20 more…

“The only thing that’s amazing is that it has taken so long for something like this to happen,”

what’s amazing is that it’s this—money getting funneled to the athletes—that took him down. Not the two major sex scandals. Using and destroying the lives of anybody who touches a major program is OK according to the morals of the NCAA. but pass money to an “amateur” athlete? we’ll drag you to the guillotine for that,…

I am shocked, SHOCKED that there is money changing hands in amateur athletics that makes billions of dollars in revenue. I wonder if this scandal will be enough to drop them from the #1 on Forbes most valuable college basketball franchises (yes that’s a real thing).

I’m still waiting for it to come out that a school bribed a recruit w/ a tractor.

No, they toned it down quite a bit from real life.

All Day I Dream About Sanctions

Seems like this has to be the end of the line for Pitino, and maybe even the “University 6" AD. Admittedly, it seems unfair to go after Rick so close to the anniversary of 9/11, but he’s got to be about out of chances, no?

Pretty fucked how basketball coaches can be charged and imprisoned for fraud yet Tom Crean still walks around a free man.