I could give two shits about the coaches and reps doing all the bribing. But as usual, the players are the ones getting screwed. That’s two top recruits who will probably not be allowed to play in college and might get lost in Europe and never make it to the NBA. How many more are going to be going down the same path?

Sold VeeDubs for a living in that time period. The first MK4 Jetta’s in the US were available with the 2 point slow or the VR-6.

Yup. Sold VeeDubs for a living in that time period. The first MK4 Jetta’s in the US were available with the 2 point slow or the VR-6. The 1.8T became available in 2000-along with the Turbo New Beetle. Wikipedia supports my memory-I checked. I could be wrong, but the turbo’s might have been a model year 99.5-available…

It was the “rich white guy fails upward” that prompted my reply. This is exactly what Deadspin traffics in. And self made Jewish billionaires have only recently become part of the “rich white guy” club-and even then-not at all everywhere.

The 1.8T had not come to the Jetta/Beetle/Golf when this care came out. It was in the Passat and A4 only at this time.

So the 1.8T was not available in the New Beetle at introduction. Not sure the year it became available-maybe 2000 or 2001.

So I read about Loria’s back story a bit yesterday. Like most sports owners he’s a taxpayer leech. But his back story is interesting. It appears he’s self made-at least as far as I can determine from Wikipedia.

My bad-thought he owned them from the beginning.

So apparently no one ever goes down on Adriana Cohen. Too bad for her.

Such a negative spin on this. Loria ran a team and left with more money than he started. You just sound jealous writing about it. Yes, he was a crappy owner. Most are. Yes, he bilked Florida taxpayers out of a ridiculous amount of money. Every owner does that, or at least tries to. He’s hardly unique. He also owned…

I believe the Jones Act dramatically negatively affects all US Islands-Puerto Rico, Hawaii, Alaska, and probably places like Guam too-and it doesn’t just hurt them in times of crisis.

Agree 100%. This same reasoning applies to many many things across the US, and I’m sure elsewhere too.

This whole thing is fucked. And it’s entirely because the NCAA doesn’t let anyone pay “student athlete’s”. But here we are. The real tragedy is not the coaches being fired, the programs being cut out of postseason play, or any of the money men going to jail.

Team name should be the Oklahoma City Texans. It’d make as much sense as it does in Houston.

His in game coaching, game prep, etc had nothing to do with the “cheating”. The cheating got better players-his coaching made for some great teams.

Modern tribalism-plain and simple. Sports are one way to identify as part of a tribe. And humans have always been tribal.

Tyrod Taylor isn’t bad. He might even be good. But his coaches and GM’s have decided to completely undermine him. Ahh, Buffalo.

Football is continuously undermined by absolutely terrible management. Even the so called experts are enamored with flashy receivers, running backs, and big arms.

You’re math is comically bad here and I can’t help but analyze it.

Solid theory there.