What is there worth trying to understand and engage with about people who, at best, have signaled they are okay with racism and bigotry?

America spends most of it’s time eating the ass of Trump voters and have for some time. Just look at our election cycle, it begins in Iowa and New Hampshire (the Iowa of the NE)... White flyover state voters have a higher median income than “liberal enclave voters” and nearly every cable channel is devoted to the…

I like this perspective. Now that trump has been elected, white people are ON ME to engage with racists and teach them a better, more loving way. As if I haven’t been trying this my whole life. White people, the responsibility to pick up your own house is YOURS.

Exactly why it’s so dangerous to pay them. Give them some money and next thing you know they’ll be demanding to not be put through life-threatening workouts.

I’m not saying it’s impossible, but as you describe, it’s a particularly tiny segment of the populace you’re describing, professional marathoners and the like. But for most, muscle failure sets in well before this can occur. Particularly huge offensive linemen. Sure they’re great athletes, but certainly not when it…

You certainly don’t need to be on roids for rhabdomyolysis to hit you after an intense workout. It often comes from repeated eccentric contraction (such as lowering yourself down on a pushup) to the point of extreme muscle fatigue. The real problem comes when someone “pushes through it” which is why you can see it so…

Pfft, clearly Granny is a bodybuilding freak.

Push ups? One year at Alabama, Bear Bryant brought in a big kid he recruited over the summer. An assistant coach asked Bryant where he found him. He said he saw him plowing a field and stopped and asked him if he knew where Tuscaloosa was located. The assistant said “You brought him in because he knew?” Bryant said…

...a quote from the university about how the “safety and welfare of all of our student-athletes is paramount in all that we do.”

My understanding, not as a healthcare worker, but as someone who has known plenty of juicers, is that while rhabdomyolysisis is extremely rare among young people, simply because literal muscle failure occurs first, it is not uncommon if you are cycling on anabolic steroids.

He sees stars now, at least.

Those three players will probably be fine. I mean, the other players and their mother don’t seem all that concerned. If anything, they don’t seem to care very much at all, which is really just rude.

Chris Conley is a star now?

It feels like Bizarro world that college players have to do more officially in the offseason than the NFL players do.

Yep. A scholarship that can be revoked if they need to get under the 85 scholarship limit and you can’t play for a year because of the after-effects of rhabdomyolisis.

And people say they aren’t reimbursed for their effort! I’m pretty sure those hospital bills will be paid for, just like their tuition!

It’s all good. For their effort, they’re rewarded with a one year renewable scholarship, sometimes leading to a highly marketable degree in (whatever the easiest major is at Oregon, because they don’t have time to do anything else).

the training staff didn’t see any players faint

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Kids these days are so soft. Back in my day, you weren’t done in Oregon until you died of dysentery.