At big time programs, both. The draft system "weeds out trouble makers" costing them money. Then in the pros, the system is so strict that you can only "step out of line" (aka be yourself) if you are an otherworldly talent. If you show character, teams won't sign you (due to "distractions") and you will make less money

Sure that nutshell doesnt have room for the 19th and 20th Centuries too, comrade?

The LeBron stuff is fascinating, although the reason Woj gets stiff-armed by LeBron is because Windhorst is LBJ and his team's main mouthpiece. That should probably have been mentioned in this Woj takedown, but that would muddle the message of the story.

So your opinion is that Charles Barkley disagrees with you, therefore he has nothing to add to the conversation? His whole point about the Eric Garner case was right. The police officer should've been punished, but it was manslaughter at worst, not murder.

In 2013, UAB took in $18 million and change from student fees and funding from the school. Of total revenues of $28 million, 65% came from those two sources. Roughly a million dollars were from ticket sales. From 2005 - 2013, $93 million came directly from the school, and less than $10 million came from purchases.…

Yea, and everything the government regulates is better because they are the answer to every problem.

This net neutrality ad is ass backwards (yea, I went there) and would throttle everyone back, cost everyone more in access bills (good luck with your throttled porn streams then) and give control over, and an ultimate…

De-indexing libel isn't a solution. And Google is not in a position to judge libel cases anyway - would we really want them to? There are already a legal remedy for removing libelous material at the source which address the root of the problem a lot better. Why defend a less comprehensive non-solution to a…

This remindes me of Adam Smith's Theory of Moral Sentiments and the notion that a major part of what keeps people in society acting morally is the fear of public humiliation and being ostracized. Over zealous "privacy" blunts the consequences of wrongdoing and therefore incentivises it. I think that privacy about…